On June 27th, a dedicated PLM and Merchandise and Assortment planning seminar was held by TXT e-solutions, an international leading provider of integrated and collaborative planning solutions. This half day event in Paris gathered ...
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High-growth countries are usually exhibited by a low per capita income. The upside, though, is that such countries, usually emerging countries, are able to do more with fewer resources. Dr Gilbert Saggia, Oracle Country Manager for Kenya, ...
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US telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to acquire Leap Wireless for $15 per share in cash, valuing the prepaid mobile operator at about $1.2bn (£800m). The move comes amid continued consolidation and restructuring in the ...
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The Cabinet Office has admitted that, despite its increased focus on G-Cloud and SMBs for outsourced projects, it still has "some pretty shoddy tech" - also in spite of acquiring "great people" in comparison to how it worked in the past. ...
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Lotus F1 has selected Juniper Networks to build mission-critical networking infrastructure to aid its racing, testing and car design. The announcement comes days before Lotus competes at the Formula One World Championship British Grand ...
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The complexity of existing IT systems is acting as a major barrier to the adoption of cloud, with many CIOs unsure as to how to adapt to the technology, warns a report by ICT services provider NTT Europe. Based on the views of 300 CIOs ...
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For EasyJet, tablets running on Windows 8 - such as Microsoft Surface Pro - would be preferable to Apple's iPad because they're more compatible with the rest of the office ecosystem. That's according to CIO Trevor Didcock who made the ...
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Capgemini is introducing a hybrid cloud orchestration service focused on Microsoft products, although enterprises will be able to manage any load with the offering, including applications running on Linux, the company said. The core of ...
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Windows 8 is a ‘disappointing' operating system and Microsoft has six months to convince doubters otherwise, or risk being frozen out of the enterprise IT environment. That is the view of Jean-Christophe Lalanne, CIO of Air France ...
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Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday. ...
Venda, the ecommerce platform co-founded by Dan Wagner, is to float on the London Stock Exchange in an initial public offering – marking a return to the City for one of the original dot-com entrepreneurs. According to reports, ...
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Forrester founder and CEO George Colony has touted the shift from IT to business technology and urged CIOs to get closer to their marketing colleagues in the age of the customer. Speaking at Forrester’s CIO Forum in London and in an ...
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The IT department of 2020 could disappear as a separate entity and become embedded in departments throughout the entire organisation, according to analyst Forrester. Speaking at its CIO Forum event in London, analysts discussed some of ...
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According to Protiviti’s 2013 Security and Privacy Survey, a large number of companies are not adequately prepared to respond to a data breach of IT security crisis, despite a broader recognition that cyber threats are more prevalent. ...
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European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in ...
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