Its reputation premium ranks near the top quartile of its 89 peers in packaged software.
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Western firms had begun shifting much earlier towards simpler server-based systems and packaged software.
The software industry was equally slow to adopt online retailing, which wiped out sales of packaged software virtually overnight.
Bartz clearly was a successful CEO of Autodesk and likely would be successful at another engineer targeted packaged software company.
It is impressive stuff, considering how much Adobe, a traditional packaged software company, has to contend with in a world exploding in both devices and experiences.
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Packaged software will also be available starting September 4 at Apple retail stores, Apple.com, Amazon.com, Fry's Electronics, MicroCenter and hundreds of other resellers and retail locations nationwide.
Ariba (bought by SAP in 2012) and Concur Technologies both successfully transitioned from packaged software to an on-demand model, and both stocks were severely punished in the interim.
Microsoft is a software company focused on packaged software and not good at advertising funded efforts, yet seems to be putting massive funds (including the attempted purchase of Yahoo) into that segment.
According to IDC, by 2015, one of every seven dollars spent on packaged software, server, and storage offerings will be through the public cloud model, growing five times faster than the total IT industry.
In an era of consumerized IT and packaged software solutions, increasingly delivered as a service from the cloud, it is tempting to think that vendors can be a good source for your IT strategy, relegating the CTO role to a sideshow.
There are real and fundamental reasons why companies continue to purchase, deploy, and even customize packaged software on-premise or via hosting partners, including uniqueness in their value chains, specific requirements in their industry, or a myriad of complex regulations across multiple countries.
Unlike selling packaged software for a lump sum or upgrade fee every year or two, when you sell a service month-to-month or year-to-year you have to keep delivering and reminding your customers that they are happy with the services you are providing.
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No one predicts the imminent demise of the PC, but some analysts are expecting growth to gradually taper off in places like the U.S. According to market research firm IDC, the U.S. market for packaged software will barely eke out double-digit annual gains over the next five years.
These two titles, alone, will generate 15% of total packaged videogame software sales for the quarter, according to Michael Pachter, videogame analyst, Wedbush Morgan Securities.
In the past three years Intuit has made a priority of replacing the no-growth packaged-software business with faster-growing online versions of its big hits and with subscription services such as online and mobile banking software.
They knew the Web would need packaged applications because every software market before it had developed in that direction.
Last year, the company packaged its popular Creative Suite software into a subscription bundle.
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What we can achieve is to prevent our software from being packaged such that you don't really have the freedom to change it.
The tablet will have a 10.1-inch high-definition screen and come packaged with Adobe's Flash software for watching internet videos.
Bill Gates has built a powerhouse around software for microprocessors, written and packaged by aggressive, high-IQ people.
Software--as silicon etchings, packaged disks or the Web itself--has created most of the new wealth in the world.
The computer comes packaged, in part, with Apple's iTunes music software and iMovie video editing software.
For all its success, for instance, Oracle Japan sells its databases through other Japanese software houses, which continue to charge for their services (now packaged with an Oracle database) on a fixed-price basis.
And he is looking for people with skills in software development, marketing, finance, legal, and sales (with expertise in packaged goods and retailing).
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