Comments on: Santa comes early for HP http://andyonsoftware.com/2006/12/santa-comes-early-for-hp/ Andy Hayler, founder of Kalido and The Information Difference, gives his views on the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and data quality. Tue, 25 May 2010 17:55:31 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Vincent McBurney http://andyonsoftware.com/2006/12/santa-comes-early-for-hp/comment-page-1/#comment-7090 Vincent McBurney Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:12:32 +0000 http://andyonsoftware.com/2006/12/santa-comes-early-for-hp/#comment-7090 It's comes at the same time as HP announcing a partnership with Microsoft. Both companies to spend $300 million over three years on enterprise software such as BI and collaboration. The Knightsbridge acquisition gives them a high quality list of consultants with customer contacts to follow through on the Microsoft partnership. It’s comes at the same time as HP announcing a partnership with Microsoft. Both companies to spend $300 million over three years on enterprise software such as BI and collaboration. The Knightsbridge acquisition gives them a high quality list of consultants with customer contacts to follow through on the Microsoft partnership.

]]> By: Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing http://andyonsoftware.com/2006/12/santa-comes-early-for-hp/comment-page-1/#comment-7055 Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:54:00 +0000 http://andyonsoftware.com/2006/12/santa-comes-early-for-hp/#comment-7055 <strong> More Thoughts on HP and Knightsbridge...</strong> Having worked in a high-tech company that was a competitor to HP I’ve got some thoughts to add after reading Andy’s post “Santa Comes Early for HP.” Similar to HP, this company was driven by hardware but also sold software... More Thoughts on HP and Knightsbridge…

Having worked in a high-tech company that was a competitor to HP I’ve got some thoughts to add after reading Andy’s post “Santa Comes Early for HP.” Similar to HP, this company was driven by hardware but also sold software…

]]> By: Nigel Thomas http://andyonsoftware.com/2006/12/santa-comes-early-for-hp/comment-page-1/#comment-6896 Nigel Thomas Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:15:53 +0000 http://andyonsoftware.com/2006/12/santa-comes-early-for-hp/#comment-6896 It sounds more like Santa coming for Knightsbridge. Read <a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4037.html" rel="nofollow">this article</a> for summary of the likely issues HP will face. "... as many as two-thirds of all acquirers fail to achieve the benefits planned ..." and that successful buyers "avoided acquiring organizations with distinctly different cultures than their own". We'll see. It sounds more like Santa coming for Knightsbridge.

Read this article for summary of the likely issues HP will face. “… as many as two-thirds of all acquirers fail to achieve the benefits planned …” and that successful buyers “avoided acquiring organizations with distinctly different cultures than their own”.

We’ll see.

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