Eastman Kodak has announced Eric-Yves Mahe will assume the role of president of the Consumer and Film Division (CFD), effective immediately. Eric will also continue in his role as president of the Software and Solutions Division. Eric ...
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Electronics For Imaging (EFI) has acquired UK-based firm Escada Systems for an undisclosed sum. Escada, which also carries out operations in the US, provides corrugator control systems for the packaging market. The acquisition will ...
Dairy firm Almarai has added real-time intelligence to more than 100 packaging lines to increase performance. The company expanded its Schneider Electric deployment as part of a Smart Manufacturing initiative by implementing Line ...
Cargill has re-named its feed and food software business to Format Solutions, after the successful integration of Format International. The new name represents the company’s commitment to bring value to its customers through a ...
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ASA Automotive Systems has appointed Mary Carbonneau controller. Her responsibilities will include overseeing all of ASA's accounting operations, management reporting and compliance/control. Prior to joining ASA, Carbonneau served as ...
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Hellman & Friedman, a private equity investment firm has reached an agreement to acquire insurance software provider Applied Systems, from Bain Capital, in a transaction valued at nearly $1.8bn. Other parties who will also invest the ...
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Symantec plans to close down its Backup Exec.cloud service, saying it lacks mobile and content-sharing features and wouldn't be the right platform for delivering them. Backup Exec.cloud is a pure cloud-based offering designed to make it ...
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Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, has been selected by Everest Reinsurance Company (“Everest Re”) to implement Xuber for Reinsurers in place of its existing legacy system. The deal marks the first customer to ...
PC giant Lenovo is considering a bid for troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry. The news follows the revelation that it has been granted permission to examine the company's books and comes after months of denials that it was interested in ...
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Hewlett-Packard reassigned Enterprise Group chief Dave Donatelli on Wednesday as it reported an 8 percent decline in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, saying all of its major divisions except software brought in less money than a year ...
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THEY?RE highly successful as consumer devices, but is Apple?s iPad cutting the mustard in the business world? Yesterday two restaurants in inner Sydney were spruiking the benefits of using Apple's iPad to manage everything from the taking ...
SAP abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka has ...
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HP's shares rose after the world's largest PC maker's quarterly results beat analysts' low expectations, as CEO Meg Whitman's restructuring programme begins to take shape. The Palo Alto, California-based firm's profits for the second ...
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SAP has abruptly reorganised its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka ...
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Capitalizing on apparent demand from customers, NetSuite is adding new capabilities aimed at manufacturers to its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software. NetSuite will announce a new version of its? manufacturing ERP ...
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