Customers consider alternative models

The effect of the skills shortage is pushing existing and potential customers to consider alternative software delivery models, reports Computerworld.

With big enterprise software vendors, such as SAP and Oracle, successfully promoting software products to manage business processes to SMEs, the supply of skilled people to manage these products has not kept up with demand.

SAP and Oracle have made no secret of their desire to infiltrate the SME market with a business-model-defying combination of on-premise and on-demand offerings.

A Sri Lankan IT/BPO-sector delegation led by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka concluded a mission to Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad last week, reports the Sundaytimes.

The aim of the mission was to motivate SMEs and companies looking for joint venture opportunities to stay in India.

The delegation, which included Sri Lankan IT and BPO companies, held meetings in the southern Indian IT hubs with SMEs and government agencies.

Enterprise ad management and software services provider, Operative, announced that NBC Universal used its software and trafficking services to help execute online ad sales transactions and ad trafficking for NBC Olympics.com, reports Marketwatch.

Operative Dashboard centralises online advertising management for NBC Universal, iVillage and NBCOlympics.com Web sites, enabling them to report and track online ad campaigns.

Operative support through Dashboard is a part of its strategy to provide on-demand scalability and technology solutions for SMEs experiencing pivotal advertising situations.