IT distributor SharpText has undergone extensive restructuring after experiencing a significant drop in turnover. Newly appointed managing director John Dunne said that the company has shifted its strategy after revenues dropped to €127 million in the year ending March 31, 2008, down from €136 million a year previously.
Software firm Tas Group saw its revenues grow last year, though it continues to post losses. According to the latest accounts for the company, it recorded revenues of $13.1 million ($9 million) in the year ending January 31, 2009, up from $12.9 million in the 13 months ending January 31, 2008.
The promise of technology in the workplace was that it would make life easier when it came to difficult or boring tasks, helping us achieve goals more quickly and work more effectively with fewer mistakes.
Telecoms equipment developer Intune Networks expects to release its product to market next year and record its first full year of revenues in 2011, after securing a €22 million round of investment funding last week.
In other circumstances, the recent rampant spread of Conficker might have been the cue for an outbreak of nostalgia. With a ’trigger date’ for executing its payload, it was reminiscent of predecessors like Anna Kournikova or Lovebug.
Servers
Gone are the days when a company’s servers required their own room with enough cabling to light up a house at Christmas.
The Irish IT distribution market could be bracing itself for closures and takeovers, according to senior figures in the business.
A new start-up company is aiming to allow teachers to deliver grinds and other classes by video over the internet.
At its most basic, CRM is a software application that allows you to manage and, to a certain extent, automate three key commercial functions within your business – marketing, sales and customer service. So fundamental are they that some in the industry refer to them as the’ blessed trinity’‘.
At a time when business metrics such as revenue, profit and customer-win rates are heading south, there is another corporate indicator that is stubbornly heading in the other direction – data storage volumes.