IDG News Service-Oracle on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire project portfolio management(PPM)software vendor Instantis,in a move that will build upon its past acquisition of Primavera.Terms of the deal,which is expected to be ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft has confirmed what many had suspected,that it didn't offer a 16GB Surface RT tablet because there would have been virtually no room for customer content on the device. According to a FAQ published Monday,a 32GB ...
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EMC today announced a series of software upgrades for eight products in its Documentum content management platform and its Captiva document capture software line. The upgrades,which address cloud-based document management,add mobile ...
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Interactive language learning outside of the classroom is being offered to UK secondary schools and universities, through cloud based software from ConnectED. The SANSSpace software from distributor ConnectED enables students to access ...
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Intuit has integrated the online marketing software gained through its$423.5 million acquisition of Demandforce with its QuickBooks accounting software,giving small businesses a way to make closer connections with customers,the company ...
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Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
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The cloud played a pivotal role in separating insurance group Direct Line from parent company the Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)to launch on the stock market. Direct Line had less than 6 months to re-engineer its HR process to prepare for an ...
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Contents HR lags behind in consumerisation of IT Useability a driving force behind HR technology Big data can be a powerful HR tool Read more on SaaS HR Read about cloud-based HR implementations Read more on big data in HR Businesses must ...
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The failure of human resources(HR)departments to understand how a business works is one of the most common reasons why HR IT projects fail,delegates at HRTech2012 heard. Most HR heads do not really understand how their business makes ...
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Telefónica Digital has bought TokBox as an attempt to move into the video conferencing space. TokBox was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco.TokBox has created a cloud-based API for video conferencing,which companies can ...
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Steve Laub CEO of Atmel believes that given the increasing proliferation of smart devices throughout the world and the role microcontrollers play in it the company's day has come. If you subscribe to the idea of intelligent devices ...
UK chip maker ARM saw pre-tax profits grow 22%toGBP68m in its third quarter,compared with the same period last year. The company's sales grew 20%toGBP144.6m.Processor royalty revenue also increased 27%year-on-year. ARM CEO Warren ...
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There is no question that vendors that don't offer software-as-a-service(SaaS)products are risking market share.It's been true in almost every market,where disruptive companies such as Salesforce in customer relationship management(CRM)or ...
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IDG News Service-Mobile payments with Google Wallet are growing fast,but the road to wide acceptance of NFC in the U.S.will be slow,the head of Google's payments unit said Friday. The number of NFC(near-field communication)transactions ...
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