Hagerty Insurance Agency, a vehicle insurance provider, is implementing Insuresoft's Diamond Claims system to enhance its claims processing capabilities. Built on Microsoft's modern .NET platform, Diamond Claims is expected to help the ...
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Change is certainly afoot when a supposedly down-to-earth networking conference is launched with the kind of glitz and glamour usually reserved for the Oscars. But the theme worked well, as Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco, kicked off Cisco ...
The new BlackBerry marketing theme could well be, “Not dead yet”, as the world prepares to hear about two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, which are due to be announced on Wednesday. Days before the announcement, there is fairly ...
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Cambridgeshire County Council workers won't get a penny extra for joining the council's new BYOD scheme because the authority is worried about being "pilloried in the local press" if they did. Staff signing up to the scheme, which began ...
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The third annual Cloud World Forum MENA will attract over 40 keynote speakers from the region’s top organsations, such as Google, Gulf Air and Emirates Flight Catering, it was announced this week. The speakers will join hundreds of ...
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged government officials to clamp down on bad IT contracts and limit duplication across projects, with an estimated one quarter of federal spending on IT wasted every year. The U.S. government will spend nearly ...
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Federal agencies, including the Defense Department, are facing unprecedented budget problems that are creating a new reality for government IT. IT managers are turning to agile development to speed up projects and to quickly show their ...
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Westminster Council has today announced a network IT contract with BT that may see it saving £30m on its HR and finance systems. BT is calling the deal a "radical redesign of corporate human resources and finance services across ...
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Microsoft Gulf and Union National Bank (UNB) on Monday announced a partnership that will see UNB upgrade parts of its IT infrastructure to Windows 8. UNB said that, when it is completed, the IT model will be the first of its kind in the ...
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This month will see the return of CNME’s annual CIO 50 Awards and Forum when it hosts the region’s most innovative and intuitive CIOs inside The Address hotel, Marina Mall, on January 30th. This year will be the fifth year ...
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Tapiola Data, a subsidiary of Finnish insurance company LahiTapiola Group, and CGI’s Logica Suomi have agreed to set up a new information and communication technology (ITC) company, known as LTC-Otso. Expected to earn euro 150m ...
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Email is a commodity, says Chicago CIO Brett Goldstein, and that's why city officials have decided to shift to cloud-based mail services as part of a broad effort to improve IT operations. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel this month disclosed ...
Direct Line Group (DLG) has appointed IT consulting firm Capgemini as a partner in a five year contract to design, deliver and run a new IT infrastructure, as it looks to move away from RBS's data centres. The £100m deal, which ...
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The government has launched the third procurement round for the G-Cloud service, which will see the total value of potential spend on the framework increase from 100m to 200m. The G-Cloud uses cloud computing to help change the way ...
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Oliver Bussmann, CIO at SAP, boasts he has 6,000 followers on Twitter. He also makes a point of attending trade shows like the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to grab ideas on new innovations. Every year, he speaks at least ...