It seems counterintuitive, but last year, Aberdeen Group found that the costs for a company with 1,000 mobile devices go up by $170,000, on average, when they adopt BYOD. Why? Hidden costs. Premiums go up because employees no longer have ...
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An IT education programme run by supplier organisation CompTIA is targeting CFOs and other senior business executives to teach them about the business benefits of IT. Trade organisation CompTIA is creating what it calls a "boot camp" to ...
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One-fifth of UK companies are assigning financial value to their data, according to Dynamic Markets, a UK-based market research firm The firm's research is one of three pieces sponsored by analytics software and services company SAS. The ...
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IDG News Service - Name: Joe Busky Age: 45 Time with company: 4 years Education: Bachelor of Arts in accounting; MBA in business administration from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore Company headquarters: Chicago Revenue: ...
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Name: Jon Brilliant Age: 48 Time with company: board of directors when founded, became CFO 3 years ago. Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and a graduate degree, Juris Doctor, from Duke ...
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The looming launch of a new iPhone may give the appearance of old times in tech. There's nothing like an upgrade frenzy with long lines at Apple stores. But nothing could be further from the truth. JPMorgan, Forrester and IDC this week ...
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In the midst of a gloomy GDP growth scenario, an ASSOCHAM business confidence survey has indicated that the slowdown is about to bottom out, but it may get a little worse before it gets better in the last quarter of the current financial ...
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The European Commission(EC)and datacentre industry consortium The Green Grid are collaborating on policies to improve efficiency in datacentres. Non-profit industry lobby group The Green Grid includes datacentre users,policy ...
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The Datacentre Maturity Model(DCMM)tool can help businesses improve datacentre energy efficiency,hence their Power Usage Effectiveness(PUE),according to not-for-profit organisation The Green Grid. The free DCMM tool allows datacentre ...
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The CIO of professional services firm PwC UK,Dominique Moreau,has hit back at remarks made by his Groupama Insurances counterpart Jem Eskenazi that the CIO role is set to disappear in the next 15 to 20 years,by declaring that"the CIO role ...
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Hosting companies purporting to offer cloud services are offering the same services that they were 10 years ago,but simply marketing them as cloud instead in a bid to make money,claims Flexiant founder Tony Lucas. "If you were to believe ...
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Although U.S.manufacturers and distributors are increasingly optimistic about their own businesses,many are deeply troubled by domestic and global economic conditions.These are among the findings in a new report titled the The McGladrey ...
A judge has tossed out some of the claims brought against Oracle by Montclair State University in New Jersey over an allegedly failed ERP(enterprise resource planning)software project. Montclair's claims of fraudulent inducement and ...
SS&C Technologies has unveiled a new risk analysis software, Camra I-Risk, for insurance companies in an effort to address risk amidst emerging solvency standards. Commenting on the launch of the new risk management system, SS&C ...
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IDG News Service-Name:Mark Partin Age:44 Time with company:7 years Education:Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Tennessee;MBA from Harvard University Company headquarters:Blue Bell,Pennsylvania Countries of ...
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