Core insurance processing software and services provider Insurity has signed an agreement with hosted IT applications and outsourcing solutions provider MFXchange (MFX) to provide combinations of complementary software and services to the ...
United Fire group has selected iPartners’ insurance business intelligence solution to consolidate its multiple data sources for actionable analysis, greater insight and improved decision making. Commenting on the technology, United ...
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Businesses are adopting cloud-based services mainly to speed up innovation and cut costs,often overlooking the security risks of this new delivery model. But security is not the only thing that is being overlooked by eager adopters of ...
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New trends in computing, including social media and cloud computing, are challenging traditional approaches to computer security that will force organisations to adapt – or to risk marginalisation and extinction, according to Gartner ...
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Sound Physicians Chairman Edward G. Murphy, MD will share key opportunities and challenges for providers and hospitals considering forming an ACO and the role of hospitalists in that delivery model at the 3rd National Accountable Care ...
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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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SkyBiometry will provide software-as-a-service biometric services to bring facial recognition technology to the cloud platform SkyBiometry, a new company providing cloud-based biometric software as a service (SaaS), has been ...
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There's little doubt that multi-sourcing enterprise IT services. The average U.S. IT shop is working with 13.5 service providers overall, according to Gartner. But managing multiple providers remains a challenge for most IT organizations. ...
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With Oracle now in a self-imposed "quiet period" prior to its next quarterly earnings release, it's not likely the company will make any major announcements until its OpenWorld conference, which kicks off at the end of September. Given ...
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Public cloud updated Sega's courier distribution to testers How a combination of public and private cloud helped Sega Cloud project yielded cost-control benefits for Sega Overcoming interoperability issues in private and public cloud The ...
Worldwide spending on security is expected to touch the $60 billion mark in 2012, up 8.4 percent from $55 billion in the previous year, according to research company Gartner — this figure will approach $86 billion in 2016. "The ...
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Hewlett-Packard has launched a hosted offering called HP Service Anywhere, providing IT service management (ITSM) software over the Internet. “We believe that SaaS as a delivery model and as a business model makes sense for many of ...
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ConvaTec, a developer of cardiovascular technologies, has purchased all the assets of 180 Medical Holdings. 180 Medical is involved in home delivery of disposable, intermittent catheters and urologic medical supplies in the $1bn US ...
Microsoft today launched the new version of its flagship developer tool suite, Visual Studio 2012, as well as the availability of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. Before a crowd of developers and media in Seattle, USA, the ...
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Current application portfolios are preventing banks from making the transformation they need ensure customer retention, says analyst Gartner, which urged them to focus more on “APIs and apps” to solve the problem. “The ...