Verizon's Enterprise Solutions group today unveiled a cloud services portfolio for the healthcare industry that it said can meet federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic ...
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Welcome Break Group, which runs UK motorway service stations and hotels, is starting a project to deploy SuccessFactors, the cloud-based human resources (HR) system from SAP. The SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Suite will provide ...
IDG News Service - The new version of Microsoft Office offers compelling enhancements to its capabilities and interface design, as well as improvements in cloud functionality that should make it a far better product than its predecessor. ...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman has reiterated the company’s commitment to its hardware business in a bid to reassure shareholders over the company’s future. During her keynote speech at HP’s annual Discover conference in Las Vegas ...
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The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
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2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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SAP laid out broad details of a new cloud-based application development platform powered by the HANA in-memory database during the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. One component of the strategy, NetWeaver Cloud, is generally ...
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Oracle announced it is expanding its Oracle Cloud services portfolio, during a talk at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week. Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Product Development, delivered the talk, and ...
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HP today announced it is expanding its Converged Cloud portfolio with joint HP and Microsoft solutions that aim to simplify and enhance every aspect of a client's private cloud journey. The HP and Microsoft Joint Private Cloud initiative ...
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The Oracle OpenWorld Conference 2012 opened today at the Moscone Exhibition Centre, San Francisco. The five day affair began today with a keynote from CEO Larry Ellison who began by thanking the company’s 390,000 customers across the ...
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As with their user forum last year,EMC's Forum Boston 2012 on Friday emphasized cloud infrastructure technology,big data and business intelligence products. This year,however,EMC made it clear to its customers that there should be a sense ...
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The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; ...
SAP has introduced its first cloud-based financial application for the enterprise, which provides real-time data based on the company's Hana in-memory database system. The product is part of SAP's wider One Cloud strategy, which brings ...
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SAP is urging businesses to rethink core business values to become more consumer-centric using mobile, social, cloud and business intelligence (BI). Addressing delegates via a video link at the opening of SAP TechEd Madrid, Bill ...
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Oracle is pushing its combined hardware and software product range as a way for CIOs to avoid costly consultant fees. Speaking in the UK, Oracle president Mark Hurd, said open systems were more costly because they were not ...
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