Inside the BriefcaseThe agreement means that Integrum has made its fully-integrated reporting module (Yellowfin) available to its more than 200,000 licensed users, across more than 40 countries, including Fortune 500 companies such as Coca Cola Europe, Jetstar Group and Westfield Group.
NewsPanaya is proud to announce the release of Panaya Test Management for Oracle EBS, a full-service test management solution for every version of Oracle EBS, which will change the way IT teams approach and handle the challenging task of ERP testing.
NewsDeutsche Telekom, with its systems solutions unit T‑Systems, and SugarCRM Inc., the company that enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships, announced a global reseller alliance. T-Systems will deploy Sugar from its secure data centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and resell the cloud-based CRM solution and services to enterprise customers.
NewsLeading Australian software provider, Resolve, has integrated Yellowfin’s Business Intelligence (BI) solution into its Dynamic Case Management (DCM) platform, rebranding it as its ‘Resolve Intelligence’ reporting and analytics module.
NewsSophos today announced that it has acquired cloud-based security firm Mojave Networks of San Mateo, Calif. This acquisition will strengthen Sophos cloud-managed and appliance-based security solutions. To Sophos Cloud, an integrated cloud-managed security offering, Mojave will add a rich cloud-based web security solution. And to Sophos’ line of network security hardware it will enable hybrid deployment options (SaaS and non-SaaS) to meet diverse web security needs.
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that it has added device support for EMC Avamar to enable backup server monitoring in OpStor, its storage resource management and capacity forecasting solution. The latest version of OpStor also features a new, intuitive dashboard that provides storage admins a snapshot of all the activity in their environment.
NewsBuilding on client demand to integrate real-time analytics with consumer transactions, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new capabilities for its System z mainframe. The integration of analytics with transactional data can provide businesses with real-time, actionable insights on commercial transactions as they occur to take advantage of new opportunities to increase sales and help minimize loss through fraud prevention.
NewsNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today unveiled Digital.NYC, a first-of-its-kind online platform that will serve as a centralized hub for the City’s tech ecosystem, providing information and resources to help turn ideas into businesses, deliver valuable tools for digital startups, and connect New Yorkers to opportunities in the City’s tech ecosystem. Digital.NYC offers a pioneering search portal and database with profiles of virtually every city-based tech company and investor; a continuously updated list of tech and digital job openings, a citywide tech event and class calendar; an interactive map of tech companies, startup resources across the boroughs; and additional features that combine to create a comprehensive one-stop shop for everything startup-related in New York City.
NewsdinCloud, a cloud services provider that helps businesses rapidly migrate to the cloud through business provisioning, today announced customized cloud services for the retail industry including dinCloud’s award-winning hosted virtual desktops. Store owners and employees from traditional brick and mortar or online retailers can now manage store operations remotely from any device including a desktop, laptop, or tablet.
NewsAlpha Software Corporation today announced the industry’s first application development and deployment environment with built-in offline support, without added time or cost. This built-in capability in Alpha Anywhere 3.0 allows a transactional business app to operate effectively while disconnected from a network, and solves what Forrester Research identified in its September 2014 report, The Offline Mobile Challenge, as “often the most important and difficult mobile feature” for business today and “a consideration for nearly every future modern application.”
NewsSite24x7, the cloud infrastructure monitoring service, today announced the launch of the Site24x7 Benchmarks feature. Available immediately, this feature helps any user set performance goals by letting them compare their websites’ performance and availability to the top 20, best-performing websites globally in 20 different industries, including retail, e-commerce and healthcare. Users do not need to be Site24x7 customers to use Site24x7 Benchmarks.
NewsIBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration with Busan Bank to create a set of secure, customized mobile apps that will improve employee productivity and decision making to enhance the customer experience. More than 78 percent of South Korea’s 50 million people currently use smartphones. Among 18-24 year olds, adoption is nearly ubiquitous at 97 percent, which is a factor influencing millennial employees’ expectations for having the same mobile experience at work as they do in their personal lives.
NewsSchneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)1 for its StruxureWare™ for Data Centers software suite.
NewsThe agreement will see the London-headquartered consultancy make Yellowfin’s easy-to-use BI solution, and associated training and implementation services, available to its customers throughout the UK, Europe and South Africa. Previously a dedicated SAP BusinessObjects consultancy, Director of BI, Nicolas Henry, said that Xoomworks was looking to offer its clients a “no nonsense” approach to BI, capable of delivering world-class features, while supporting pervasive deployments.
NewsThe urgent need for US media companies to find new, compelling ways to attract digital subscribers and find other methods of monetizing content is highlighted by an extensive new survey by media sales and fulfilment software provider CloudSense. Only 40 percent of US consumers polled said that they currently pay for digital media sites providing content such as news, fashion, sports and business, even though 70 percent said that they had accessed online content that day.
NewsIndependenceIT today boosted cloud infrastructure options for enterprises and service providers with the integration of the company’s Cloud Workspace Suite® (CWS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). As a result, the hypervisor / cloud platform agnostic CWS now operates seamlessly with AWS, simplifying the deployment of full-featured workspace-as-a-service environments by enterprises and service providers for anytime, anywhere application and desktop access.
NewsSigniant, the market leader in intelligent file movement, today announced extensions to the company’s cloud platform and offered insight into the underlying technical innovations that led to its development. At the International Broadcast Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam September 11-16, 2014, the company will be demonstrating two award-winning products based on this platform: Media Shuttle and Signiant SkyDrop.
NewsThe life sciences industry’s largest TMF survey to date reveals an increase in the number of clinical trial sponsors that plan to provide auditors with remote access to their electronic trial master file (eTMF). More than 32% of TMF owners surveyed in the Veeva 2014 Paperless TMF Survey: An Industry Benchmark report they will grant auditors remote access to their eTMF by early 2015, versus the 16% who provide them access today – a jump of 100%. An additional 12% of survey respondents indicate they will give remote access to their eTMF ‘as soon as they have the technology to support it.’
NewsHarvard Business Publishing (www.harvardbusiness.org) today announced the new release of Harvard ManageMentor® (www.harvardmanagementor.org), the premier on-demand learning resource for leadership and management development. Through an innovative work-based approach, the new Harvard ManageMentor guides learners to apply what they learn directly to their work, to accelerate learning and drive business impact.
NewsThe shift to the cloud has been tectonic; however, the IT infrastructures of the last 20 years have not kept pace to adequately protect enterprise networks, data and transactions. Applications are moving to the cloud, so must the corporate security gateway. Enterprises need a cloud application security gateway.
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) the principal association for the software and digital content industries, today released the results of a comprehensive study of the economic impact of the U.S. software industry. The groundbreaking report examines the various ways in which the software industry affects economic growth, trade, jobs, and more. While confirming the central role of software in increasing business productivity and investment, the study finds that software and the technology it enables are playing an increasingly vital role in creating American jobs and expanding exports.
NewsMapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced the addition of Apache Drill 0.5 to the MapR Distribution including Hadoop. Bringing next-generation ANSI SQL to Hadoop, Apache Drill provides instant, self-service data exploration across multiple data sources including modern applications.
NewsMaking its biggest announcement in a decade as leader in analytics, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced Watson Analytics, a breakthrough natural language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. According to analysts, only a small fraction of business people use powerful analytics tools as part of their decision making today[1]. Watson Analytics is designed to make advanced and predictive analytics easy to acquire and use.
NewsCloud Technology Partners™, the leader in transforming businesses through cloud solutions, today announced the addition of major new features and functionality to PaaSLane™, a solution to assess and optimize Java and .NET applications for modernization and cloud readiness.
NewsIBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Caris Life Sciences is using IBM technical computing and storage technology to accelerate the company’s molecular profiling services for cancer patients. These services deliver critically important information to help oncologists develop tailored therapeutic plans for each patient’s unique cancer, which could lead to better health outcomes and reduced costs to the healthcare system in general.
NewsBP Logix, a provider of BPM solutions for rapid workflow app development, was presented with a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Technology Innovation of the Year category at the 12th Annual American Business Awards. Held in San Francisco, the Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 240 executives nationwide who participated in the judging process.
NewsIpswitch today announced the release of MOVEit™ 8.1 managed file transfer system that provides IT administrators with enhanced enterprise security and compliance of file-based processes through integration with pre-existing IT infrastructures.
NewsNinety-two percent of executives from companies that are applying big data to their businesses said they are satisfied with the results, according to new research by Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Eighty-nine percent of respondents rated big data as “very important” or “extremely important” to their businesses’ digital transformation, and 82 percent agreed big data provides a significant source of value for their companies.
NewsRed Hat, Inc. the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Satellite 6, a comprehensive solution providing complete lifecycle management of Red Hat systems with provisioning software distribution, patch and configuration management, together with subscription management across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
NewsHuddle today announced that Grant Thornton, one of the world’s leading organizations of independent assurance, tax and advisory firms, will make secure cloud collaboration technology available to member firms across the globe. Using Huddle, Grant Thornton member firms will be able to bring together client teams in a central online environment to best manage international engagements. With the cloud collaboration service, teams can share best practice and create secure portals for client engagement, providing a consistent approach to communication worldwide and shortening response times.
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