With low footfall, rising rents and online competition, running a High Street store is more challenging than ever. So, why not open one just for a month or a week? The toy industry has already dabbled in pop-up shops over the past few ...
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SAP's HANA Cloud Platform, consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services, will eventually underpin all of its cloud-based applications, the company said at its Sapphire ...
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Several retailers, including two start-ups, took to the stage at Sapphire Now to present case studies demonstrating the impact of SAP’s in-memory analytics software, HANA, in the retail industry. Kingfisher, one of the world’s ...
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SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology. The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service, which was announced Tuesday, will be offered by SAP ...
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A major UK Insurer has awarded a multi-year agreement to Symbility Solutions for integration of claims management software and mobile scoping tool into its organization through its European partner, The Innovation Group (TIG). Scheduled ...
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The online virtual currency Bitcoin has generated some serious buzz lately, with its value soaring past US$200 for the first time this week. Now a smaller player hopes to emerge as a rival by processing transactions faster and giving its ...
Intel announced new server chips on Tuesday, including the latest Xeon E3, which is the first server processor based on the company's latest Haswell microarchitecture. Intel's Xeon E3 chips are targeted at low-end servers and ...
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SAP last week held a demonstration of its new HANA-powered Business Suite at Dubai Autodrome, announcing that the new suite is now available on the Middle Eastern market. At the Audi Driving Experience Centre, in one of the conference ...
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The functional capability of an OTT platform integrated with the excitement and possibilities of gaming – meet the new Reach Gaming Platform from Knetik Media. Knetik Media, a leader in OTT platform development is turning its ...
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BlackBerry Z10 sales kick off this Friday in the U.S., but it is still unclear how popular the smartphone and its Q10 cousin running BlackBerry 10 will be, amid a number of contradictory predictions and indicators. AT&T will put the Z10 ...
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We are complex beings and signs are emerging that some sections of society are concerned about areas of technological ‘advance’ in the area of privacy, writes Armin Derpmanns, general manager business development at Toshiba ...
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It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features heavily in pitches for both high-speed analytics and in support of transactional ...
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In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup FoundationDB has launched a new data store that it claims can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the scalability and speed of NoSQL. The data store, ...
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Aon Risk Solutions has introduced Transaction Liability Practice, intended to capitalize on the growth in the transaction liability insurance market. The practice will be complimented with additional resources to support the complex ...
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German business process outsourcing (BPO) provider Arvato has been selected to operate the first independent shared service centre (ISSC1) on behalf of the government. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. London councils ...
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