Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. “We’re so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs,” said Steven Sinofsky, ...
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Ventana Research has announced that the firm will share key findings from its yet to be published Business Technology Innovation Benchmark Research, as well as present facts from other new and recently released research on big data, cloud ...
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New research to investigate effective practices and challenges in long range planning. Ventana Research is conducting new benchmark research to explore how organizations perform long-range planning, the challenges they face and their ...
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Findings highlight the need for a set of core best practices coupled with a dedicated PIM environment. Ventana Research has released its latest benchmark research on trends in product information management (PIM). The research was ...
New research sheds light on changes occurring to traditional business intelligence as it intersects with mobile and social collaboration. Ventana Research has released its latest Benchmark Research, Next Generation Business Intelligence. ...
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The organiser of golf's Open Championship outsourced the development and support of its website to help keep up with changing consumption and provide interactive services to millions of golf enthusiasts. Every year for four days the .Net ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest customers are still facing technical issues as an IT failure continues to cause havoc for the banking group. Bank customers first found their RBS and NatWest services were unavailable at lunchtime ...
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US-based global insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J Gallagher & Co has acquired Coyle Insurance Agency in Peoria, Illinois, US for an undisclosed sum. On completion of the transaction, the agency owner Peter ...
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About a year ago,Xerox told some 600 employees,many of them engineers,that their jobs were being transferred to an India-based IT services firm. How has that worked out?Neither company is disclosing detail about what's been going on,but ...
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh (WWL) NHS trust moved its systems into the cloud to solve immediate business challenges and prepare for a future of shared services. Last year WWL NHS trust was faced with major IT challenges as its ...
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An IT system integrating disparate national border controls has reduced visa abuse across the borderless Schengen Area of continental Europe. The Visa Information System (VIS) is used by the European Commission (EC) to enable states in ...
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Virtualisation has been highlighted as the technology that delivers the most positive results for businesses as IT heads meet the challenge of doing the same for less. Research of 100 CIOs at firms with more than 1,000 employees, carried ...
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US insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J Gallagher & Co has purchased Idaho based consulting and brokerage firm Western Benefit Solutions (WBS). Terms and conditions of the transaction have not been disclosed by ...
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New research to investigate best and worst practices in use of spreadsheets in business SAN RAMON,CA,September 17,2012/24-7PressRelease/--Ventana Research will commence a new benchmark research to educate organizations on the use of ...
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Aberdeen based oilfield services firm, Coretrax, has moved to a new purpose built HQ with an investment of GBP 2.4 million into the office and workshop space. Formed in 2008, the company had outgrown its previous offices in Altens, ...
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