Adding the COO role to the CIO job Maximising the performance of the trading platform Reducing development time Industrialising trading technology London Stock Exchange CIO Antoine Shagoury – who recently added COO to his job ...
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The global software market grew 4.7% in the first half of this year to $167 billion, with CRM (customer relationship management), virtualization and collaboration coming in as the fastest-growing segments, according to figures released ...
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Current business security models fail to prepare for cyber threats in the face of highly sophisticated, powerful cyber attack tools that are no longer the preserve of nation states, as they filter down to a wider community of attackers. ...
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The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months,despite continued tough market conditions. With customer demands changing,banks have to innovate around things like mobile ...
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The suspension of bidding for the Thameslink rail franchise acted as a proof of concept for operator Go-Ahead's decision to move to a cloud-based collaboration platform. The incompetent handling of the bidding for the West Coast rail ...
RedHat has made CloudForms generally available after a year of beta testing, but some experts think the cloud platform doesn't give enterprises all that they need. CloudForms, an open source-based hybrid cloud management platform, allows ...
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Increased regulation, reduced profits and changing customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with commercially available alternatives. Simon Paris, head of global banking at SAP, said the strategic change has been ...
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A year after Google+ was launched, it seems Google is saying it's not really a social network after all. Now this might be confusing to the 150 million people who actively use Google+ every month. They catch up with colleagues and friends ...
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Welcome Break Group, which runs UK motorway service stations and hotels, is starting a project to deploy SuccessFactors, the cloud-based human resources (HR) system from SAP. The SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Suite will provide ...
"Ford was founded on the innovative spirit of Henry Ford, and the opportunity today to reinvent the driving experience excites us just as it probably would have him," said Paul Mascarenas, vice president and chief technical officer of Ford. ...
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A 10MW (megawatt) modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013 to provide storage services for high street banks, financial services firms, media companies, technology companies and small businesses. The ...
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Almost 60% of IT executives have a plan in place to retire applications, according to a UK study by Accenture. The survey of 250 IT executives and 250 business executives in companies with 1,000 or more staff found that the amount of IT ...
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AIMS 360, the fashion industries’ leading apparel ERP Software Company, is promoting 2013 with automation awareness to help apparel businesses run more efficiently .“The word "automation" has been thrown around for some time ...
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Analyst firm IHS published an important study last week. It predicts that, for the first time ever, PC shipments would drop year-over-year; for 2012, total shipments will drop 1.2 percent. IDC and Gartner agree, noting that third quarter PC ...
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Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. While many large organizations are still ...