The Cabinet Office must show strong leadership if it is to make shared services work, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned. The comments follow a PAC report, which echoes the National Audit Office’s findings in March that ...
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The Cabinet Office has named Bill Crothers as government chief procurement officer following the departure of incumbent John Collington. Bill Crothers is currently executive director for commercial relationships at the Cabinet Office. He ...
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Consumer goods giant Unilever is looking at how it can optimise its global operations using SAP’s HANA in-memory database. The company has been consolidating its SAP systems over the past 20 years and now runs 4 regional systems. ...
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New Mobile and Social Configure-Price-Quote Software extends the social enterprise. CHICAGO,IL,September 18,2012/24-7PressRelease/--Today at Dreamforce 2012 in booth 1307 in the Cloud Expo,Cameleon Software will demonstrate its new ...
Cameleon Software(Paris:CAM),announced today that the SMABTP Group,the leader in mutual insurance for the construction and building industry,chose to deploy its product configuration and guided selling solution.in a multichannel ...
PSI has been awarded by Krakatau Steel in Indonesia to implement the highly scalable production management system PSImetals as a core solution for flat steel production. The new system will replace the existing process control system used ...
Broner Metals Solutions announced that it has been selected by JSW Steel Ltd to implement a world class Production Planning and Scheduling solution together with Broner's MES solution, for the JSW Vijaynagar Integrated steel complex The ...
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Swiss food ingredients group Givaudan has booked an increase in first-half profits. In the six months to the end of June, net profit increased 67.5% to CHF201m (US$207.9m). Operating profit amounted to CHF295m, a 27.7% increase on the ...
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IDG News Service-Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance,which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata machine aimed at small and medium-size businesses. All SAP products ...
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Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). Further reading Paypal: Big data is a scam Businesses ...
Light - not electric signals - is the future of information transfer, says IBM as it reveals a "major advance" in chip technology. Calling the tech "silicon nanophotonics", IBM reckons it integrates optical components alongside electrical ...
The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
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SAP has turned heads in recent years with a number of high-profile acquisitions, scooping up SuccessFactors, Sybase and Ariba for more than $13 billion collectively. But company executives also maintain they intend to increase revenues ...
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SCG s vice president for corporate affairs, Tanawong Areeratchakul, said the company had signed a contract with SAP (Thailand) to upgrade its ERP project to boost growth domestically and in countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia. Under ...
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Canadian dairy firm Saputo has signed a deal to acquire the Morningstar business of Dean Foods. The US$1.45bn deal will be financed through a newly-committed bank loan, Saputo said today (3 December). The acquisition will help expand the ...
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