Can you describe the three principal business models used by software firms? Before you invest in a software firm, buy products from one, or decide to work for one, look at their business model. In ...

I am an old gal. For the past decade, I have worked as an industry analyst in the software business. My focus is on a small sector termed supply chain management software. Supply chain management ...

It’s time to retire the conventional wisdom that a car loses value the moment someone drives it off the dealer’s lot. With today’s technological advancements, cars can actually become more valuable ...

There's no doubt that the enterprise software landscape is shifting. The question is, how far and how fast? I think it's happening faster than most people think, even those who are looking to the ...

As traditional desktop and notebook PC sales slow, hardware manufacturers are not the only ones feeling the impact of a shrinking market. Traditional PC software vendors, those who sold what were once ...

For Cisco customers, the process of buying network infrastructure has always been to buy a device and pay a bundled price for hardware and software. This means in year zero (at purchase time), ...

Researchers from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems have, for the first time, shown that ...

A dystopian future where advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems replace human decision-making has long been a trope of ...

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