Computerworld - General Motors, which is insourcing the majority of its IT work, Friday said it is hiring 500 IT positions in Austin to staff a new "innovation center." The announcement is part of far-reaching GM plan to hire as many as ...
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Banks and investors have joined forces with outsourcing giant Accenture to open a laboratory in London to develop technology for the financial services sector. The FinTech Innovation Lab,as it is known,will attempt to find technology ...
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Pharmaceutical services company Parexel International has acquired all the outstanding equity securities of Liquent, a provider of Regulatory Information Management (RIM) solutions. Established in 1994,Liquent provides software solutions ...
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has begun hiring about 500 IT professionals to staff its new information technology campus in Englewood, Colo. Kaiser, which says it employs about 6,000 IT workers nationwide, said the Englewood ...
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IDG News Service - The venture capitalist Vinod Khosla recently described Silicon Valley as a state of mind, rather than a geographical place. If that's the case, that state of mind can increasingly be found in San Francisco. Young tech ...
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The number of new outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped by 20% in the second quarter, to 411 from 516 in the same period a year earlier, with contract values also sliding, according to new research. "The market is growing, but the pace ...
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technology aCanary Wharf Group is opening a centre for start-ups to work on financial services nd services early next year. The space,known as Level39,will enable accelerator programmes,software engineers and builders of financial ...
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Whitehall departments spearheading moves to break up large system integrator contracts into separate'towers'have seen a dramatic drop off in suppliers bidding to co-ordinate the multiple providers. Under the tower model the government ...
Capgemini has lowered pricing in its consulting and local professional services businesses according to its latest quarter results. The IT services firm's UK and Ireland sales fell 6.9%in its third quarter 2012s. Capgemini consulting ...
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Identifying the trends,challenges and cost benefits of outsourcing With economic conditions uncertain at the moment,many organisations are re-evaluating how and what they outsource. At the same time,user expectations for on-demand ...
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The internet is revolutionising the newspaper industry, and for the publisher of the Daily Mail and Metro, it is having the same effect on IT strategy. David Henderson, CIO at A&N Media, says the publisher’s websites attract 100 ...
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BP is putting its global messaging infrastructure into a private cloud to benefit from pay-per-use functionality and the flexibility to easily scale up and down the number of users. Over 83,000 staff at BP will be connected to the cloud. ...
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The government expects to slash its software licence and maintenance bill with Microsoft and SAP by up to£150m by 2015,via a framework renegotiation. Under the deal the public sector will avoid recent Microsoft's licence fee ...
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OnlineVNC Software announces the release of OnlineVNC Server 1.1 28.05.2012 OnlineVNC Software proudly announces the release of OnlineVNC Server 1.1, the company's flagship product for remote control the Windows 7 or Windows Vista from ...
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As the new chief information officer (CIO) at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) – the world's largest business travel management company – Kevin O'Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company's IT strategy to support ...
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