Software industry

of Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling. According to a research paper by Chandra Vijay Dubey on Project management in Software industry, he states the earlier being an important part of software industry. Rarely do you see a single person working on a project, a team is formed with people having expertise in related fields and thus a project is carried out. Author explains the importance or role of project management in 5 categories. First being the planning, most commonly clients have a rough idea of what they need as a final output, but they lack in the technical details that are supposed to be provided. Skilled and experienced managers reorganize incomplete or ambiguous requirements. Because in the planning state the main focus is on collecting the general requirements from the customers or…

(Larry) Ellison has taken this concept of power, and used it to turn Oracle into one of the largest, and most powerful, providers of computer software, hardware, and services. Ellison has used his power and influence to change the tech industry. Through his use of acquisitions, Ellison has taken Oracle from a meager start up enterprise computing company, into a tech giant. Oracle’s Larry Ellison: A Profile of Power, Influence, and Dominance Oracle was founded as Software Development…

codes are as follows: SIC Codes Percentage 0-999 6.32% 1000-1999 2.94% 2000-2999 3.75% 3000-3999 2.52% 4000-4999 6.28% 5000-5999 17.44% 6000-6999 0.38% 7000-7999 6.51% 8000-8999 11.15% 9000-9999 1.27% e. Per my observation, industries with SIC codes of 0-999, 4000-4999, 5000-5999, 7000-7999, and 8000-8999 are more likely to have more capitalized operating leases relative to their total liabilities (their percentages are significantly higher than the average). In particular, industries with SIC…

Mass service sector organisations use features of ‘classic’ Taylorism in a similar ways to the manufacturing industry. These sectors operate on a similar mass production system based on standardisation, routinisation, control and fragmentation of tasks which are all a part of the Taylorist division of labour (Edgell 2012). The effects of Tayloristic division of labour in the expanding mass service sector were noticed by Ritzer (1996) with McDonalds, which have applied mass production system…

firms at the heart of most technological breakthroughsin the semiconductor industry. Their technologies are used as inputs in a far range of industries frombasis industries such as steel and medical devices, photographic and communication equipment to more sophisticated computers and consumer electronics, and automobile and aerospace industry. They are considered as principal licensorsin the semiconductor industry and engaged extensively in cross and unilateral licensing. As specialised firms…

What is software piracy? According to Linfo, software piracy is a term that is used to describe the copying or use of computer software in violation of its license. Copying, downloading, and sharing software onto other computers are ways that software piracy occurs. Software piracy causes a big loss in revenue to the publisher or creator of the software. This causes the software to be pricier to the consumers. “Software piracy is all but impossible to stop” (Webopedia). Companies, publishers,…

of the students on the current Robotics team were doing an internship with a software company in Horsham roughly fifteen minutes away from my house. The next day I had an email from him with the details of how to get in touch with one of his good friends who happened to be the CFO of the company Aegis Software. Aegis is the leading provider of innovative software solutions to improve speed, control and visibility throughout manufacturing operations. They provide software to over 1700 factory…

If you have ever met an open source enthusiast, you’ve probably heard their reasons behind why they believe it is the best and only way of the Internet. It is undeniable just how many benefits open source software offers, but the most controversial question today is do those benefits outweigh the negatives? If you are unaware of what open source is, here is a quick summary that those of us who aren’t technically inclined can understand; it’s free to use, you can customize it, security…

to pressure their competitors. Salesforce.com still has plenty of catching up to do to reach the size and market share of their larger competitors. As of 2007, SAP's CRM market share was 25.7 percent, compared to only 7 percent for Salesforce.com. IBM's customer base includes 9,000 software companies that run their applications on their software and that are likelier to choose a solution offered by IBM over Salesforce.com. Another challenge for Salesforce.com is to expand its business model…

A robot is only as reliable and trustworthy as the program that controls it. TruPhysics is an owner-managed company that was founded in 2014 at the Institute of automation and software engineering of University Stuttgart. They have created a unique simulation process. By creating digital twins of the robot and environment and simulating the physical behavior in real-time to generate training data training neuronal networks of the robot. Thus they can handle tasks in individual situations with…