In new jobs after graduating from university, Eric Perriard and Tom Wright found their employers could articulate grandiose strategies for their businesses. But there was little connection to how the average employee could help out. ...
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SAP has said that customers should take it as a general rule that if they got a good deal first-time round on maintenance discounts, it is unlikely that they will benefit from new changes that allow companies to partially cancel unused ...
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Smart machines, cognitive computing and the "internet of things" all feature highly in Gartner's latest Hype Cycle for 2013, the analyst group's long-range examination of emerging technologies. Innovative emerging technologies highlighted ...
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Software giant SAP has announced that users of its on-premise software solutions can now apply to "abandon usage rights" of "certain existing software licenses", and in doing so enjoy "corresponding maintenance termination" without having ...
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SAP and hybris to Empower Customer Interactions and Help Companies Sell More Goods and Services through Every Channel and Touchpoint hybris an SAP company and the world’s fastest-growing commerce platform, announced that Tommy ...
Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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IBM has been awarded a contract worth up to $1 billion to transform the US Department of the Interior's IT as part of a major cloud computing initiative. The DOI is aiming to move its data and applications into the cloud as part of a ...
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US government agency, the Department of Interior (DOI) has selected IBM in a deal worth up to $1bn (£600m) as it bids to shift its IT into the cloud. The contract is an "indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity" (IDIQ) contract ...
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Etisalat UAE will soon be able to deliver new standards of LTE roaming across the globe to its customers, thanks to a newly signed IP exchange (IPX) agreement with SAP. The agreement will help Etisalat launch LTE roaming quickly by ...
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SAP's Business Objects BI (business intelligence) product line may soon begin receiving a visual overhaul based on a new "design language" or methodology called LAVA (Lightweight Applied Visual Analytics). There are six design principles ...
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The Australian state of Queensland has said that it will not allow IBM to enter any new contracts with the state government "until it improves its governance and contracting practices". The ban was made in a statement today by Premier ...
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In early 20th-century China, personal transportation didn’t get much better than a rickshaw. On the other side of the world, automakers like Winton Motor Carriage Company in Cleveland, Ohio were bringing automobiles to the masses. ...
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) has chosen Tata Consultancy Services to deliver a major IT and business transformation program to integrate and enhance mission-critical IT systems across API’s retail and wholesale ...
IBM is the subject of a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into how it reports revenue related to its cloud computing business, the vendor revealed Wednesday. "In May 2013, IBM learned that the SEC is conducting an ...
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SAP has broadened its partner program for companies that want to develop applications using its technology and then sell them through the SAP online store. While SAP already had programs aimed at mobile application development and its ...