E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Monday -- July 13, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
It's Time for IT to Look Inward
Making the Rapid ROI Promise Stick: Q&A With M.A. Ketabchi
Chrome: No Operating System for Old Men
21st Century Alchemy: Turning Tweets Into Gold
Amazon Doubles Up on Cellphone Stores
Sprint Hands Off Network Management to Ericsson in $5B Deal

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Podcast
It's Time for IT to Look Inward (36:11 minutes)
In many enterprises, IT's role has traditionally been to help other
departments gain a better sense of their data, to help people and lines
of business integrate their systems, and to help optimize processes in
order to cut costs. In today's economy, though, IT needs to take a long
look in the mirror.
http://www.ectnews.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2009-07-13.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

It's Time for IT to Look Inward
The global economic downturn has accelerated the need to reduce total IT
cost through identification and elimination of wasteful operations and
practices. At the same time, IT departments need to better define and
implement streamlined processes for operations and also for proving how
new projects begin and unfold.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67549.html

Making the Rapid ROI Promise Stick: Q&A With M.A. Ketabchi
M.A. Ketabchi, president, CEO and founder of business process management
provider Savvion, might have done just as well focusing on product
marketing in his career. From the beginning, he has distinguished
Savvion from the competition by concentrating on the one thing potential
customers care about the most: rapid ROI.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67569.html

Chrome: No Operating System for Old Men
Google CEO Eric Schmidt can't wait for the Internet search leader's free
operating system to debut next year. His excitement is a relatively
recent phenomenon; he spent his first six years at Google trying to
convince company cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin that developing
an OS to compete against Windows would be a terrible idea.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67572.html

21st Century Alchemy: Turning Tweets Into Gold
It turns out the media elite aren't so different from a lot of less
affluent folks: They think Twitter is a great communications tool, but
can't figure out how the online messaging service is going to make
money. The recurring doubts about Twitter's moneymaking potential
cropped up again Wednesday.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67570.html

Amazon Doubles Up on Cellphone Stores
Although it already has a store for selling cellphones and other
wireless communications products, Amazon.com has launched a new site
targeting the same market. AmazonWireless, currently in beta, only
carries phones from AT&T and Verizon Wireless at the moment, but other
carriers will be added later.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67566.html

Sprint Hands Off Network Management to Ericsson in $5B Deal
Sprint Nextel and Ericsson startled the telco world with the
announcement that Ericsson would take over managing the day-to-day
operations of Sprint's CDMA, iDEN and wireline networks. "Network
Advantage," as they've termed the seven-year outsourcing deal, is valued
between $4.5 billion and $5 billion.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67564.html

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