August 14, 2013
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has added nine new academic collaborations to its more than 1,000 partnerships with universities across the globe, focusing on Big Data and analytics — all of which are designed to prepare students for the 4.4 million jobs that will be created worldwide to support Big Data by 2015. The company also announced more than $100,000 in awards for Big Data curricula.
August 14, 2013
The newly formed partnership will see Ebicys – based in Santiago, Chile – provide Yellowfin’s easy-to-use BI solution, and associated suite of professional services, to its clients throughout Latin America.
Ebicys’ Commercial Manager, Pablo Araus, said the agreement would help its clients realize the power of pervasive BI deployments.
August 13, 2013
August 13, 2013 – Webroot, a leader in cloud-based security intelligence solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with gateprotect, the German network security specialist, to offer real-time endpoint protection with gateprotect’s Next Generation Firewall appliances. The combination of Webroot SecureAnywhere® Business – Endpoint Protection with gateprotect’s next generation network security strengthens protection from every endpoint to any network boundary while simplifying management.
August 13, 2013
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Gartner has positioned IBM as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms.
The new report places IBM in the Leaders Quadrant, as measured by completeness of vision and execution ability of IBM Worklight, IBM’s mobile application development platform. Acquired by IBM in February 2012, IBM Worklight is a member of the IBM MobileFirst family of solutions. In just one year, IBM has advanced from the Niche Quadrant to the Leaders Quadrant.
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August 13, 2013
August 12, 2013 — Intacct and KeyedIn™ Solutions today announced a new partnership to deliver an integrated solution to address the needs of professional services and project-based businesses.
Under this new agreement, the companies will integrate the cloud-based project management software that KeyedIn builds with Intacct’s cloud financial management and accounting software, including Intacct Project Accounting. This combination of two best-in-class systems will enable companies to optimize both the financial and operational aspects of the entire services delivery lifecycle.
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August 13, 2013
SQS, the world’s largest specialist in software quality, today announced a strategic partnership with SOASTA, the leader in cloud and mobile testing. The agreement will see SQS offering on-demand testing services using SOASTA’s automated cloud-based testing solutions for web and mobile applications – TouchTest and CloudTest. Working with SOASTA enables SQS to broaden its reach in the UK and globally through the new rapid-response, on-demand testing service.
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August 9, 2013
SG, a provider of cloud-based applications for managing the enterprise telecom department, today announced that Stratix, a leading Managed Mobile Service (MMS) Provider to the enterprise, has chosen GSG’s MobileManager platform as a key component of its iTRAC360 Portal.
August 9, 2013
The Midlothian Independent School District (MISD) has strengthened relationships and joint efforts for campus safety with the Rapid Responder® Crisis Management System in their district protecting campuses, students and staff. After receiving a REMS grant, MISD installed Rapid Responder from Prepared Response, Inc..
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August 8, 2013
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today previewed the product announcements it will make at VMworld® 2013 to help data center and IT management teams defy the cost and complexity conventions that have defined data center management.
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August 7, 2013
Pentaho Corporation, the leader in big data analytics and data integration, today announced an alliance with Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) to provide a powerful big data analytics solution that makes it easy for business users to unlock value from machine data generated by websites, applications, servers, storage, network, mobile and other devices, including system sensors.
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August 7, 2013
Translation and localization agency Acclaro announces the rollout of resources for clients using agile software development, a number that has risen substantially in the past five years to become the norm for our tech clients. This vertical rise in demand has prompted operations manager Lydia Clarke and her team of agile localization experts to craft a newly specialized service offering and free educational materials on the Acclaro blog.
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August 7, 2013
Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has announced a distribution agreement with Thai commercial software and IT solutions provider, Aware. Under the agreement, Aware. Corporation will be the exclusive distributor of Yellowfin, and its associated implementation and training services, throughout Thailand.
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August 6, 2013
Verint® Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) today announced that a large mid-Atlantic based county in the U.S. is benefitting from the Audiolog™ for Public Safety solution in its centralized 9-1-1 operation.
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August 6, 2013
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) today announced availability of new data connectivity and application capabilities as part of its Progress® Pacific™ application platform-as-a-service (aPaaS), furthering its strategy to give anyone the ability to quickly create, evolve and customize connected business applications on demand.
August 2, 2013
Global messaging solution provider IceWarp has announced that one of its longtime clients Pacific American Fish Company (PAFCO) has explained in depth why it switched from Microsoft Exchange to IceWarp and has been happy with IceWarp for the past four years. Many of the issues discussed are common for medium sized businesses every day but often come to be accepted as the status quo.
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August 2, 2013
QlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK) a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced that its customer, The Shift Project, a think tank centered on climate change and energy issues, has launched a new version of its TSP-Data-Portal (http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/) that provides immediate and free access to a wide range of global energy and climate data and statistics.
August 2, 2013
Large North American financial institutions will spend $73.8 billion on IT improvements across software, hardware and professional services in 2014 as firms transition investments from “run the bank” to “change the bank,” according to TBR’s Banking and Financial Services SourceIT report. The overall 2014 IT budget growth rate hovers at 2%, and large banking organizations are increasing investment in multichannel banking and data management to improve system performance to ultimately meet customer demand for improved service and an enhanced user experience.
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July 30, 2013
In the private sector, software errors are causing both financial and reputational damage. A study by software quality specialist SQS identified private sector businesses in the banking, retail and mobile sectors, more likely to suffer software malfunctions than public sector organisations.
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July 26, 2013
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) and Composite Software today announced that the two companies have aligned to offer joint customers the ability to respond and adapt to the changing data landscape by providing a complete analytic application stack that is both agile and flexible.
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July 25, 2013
Cape Town-based software specialist, Vicitude Business Solutions, has signed a reseller agreement with Yellowfin South Africa, the official distributor for Yellowfin in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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July 24, 2013
Good Technology invites you to join global thought leaders for the 2013 Virtual Mobility Summit to learn how to solve the key challenges that must be overcome to truly leverage the transformative power of mobility.
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July 24, 2013
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the market leader in business assurance technology, and AirWatch, the largest Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) provider, today announced they have partnered to deliver an interoperable solution that empowers companies to securely embrace and deliver enterprise-wide mobile initiatives.
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July 23, 2013
Fiberlink, the leader in cloud-based enterprise mobility management (EMM) announced the results of its online survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, that reveals employees are unknowingly putting enterprise data at risk.
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July 23, 2013
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced the addition of Germany and Italy to the global agreement with Equinix to provide Energy Management Procurement Services (EMPS) and Sustainability Services to their global footprint.
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July 22, 2013
BP Logix, developer of BPM software that accelerates time-to-value, today announced that its customer, Bechtel Corporation, will be presenting at KMWorld 2013 on November 7th in Washington, D.C. The 17th annual conference, whose theme is Building Collaborative Organizations: People, Platforms & Programs, will take place over three days, Nov. 6-8th, and showcase presenters describing business processes and productivity, streamlining operations as well as accelerating development and innovation.
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July 19, 2013
NS Shopping, a leading home shopping network in South Korea and part of the US $4.5 billion Harim Group, is working with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to transform the company by employing new tools to simultaneously improve customer experiences and the organization’s technology infrastructure.
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July 17, 2013
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced this year’s “Time to Say Thank You” contest honoring hard-working sysadmins around the world as part of the 14th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day on Friday, July 26, 2013. Users can show love for their sysadmins with a public declaration of “thanks” and give them a chance to win a $1,000 gift card. Visit http://sysadminday.manageengine.com/ before July 25, 2013, to enter.
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July 17, 2013
InfinityQS International, Inc., the global authority on real-time Manufacturing Intelligence and enterprise quality, today announced that it is expanding its user conference with plans for a fall event in the Washington, D.C. metro area and a spring event in Los Angeles. The move helps to accommodate the growing attendance numbers, while offering more convenient locations for attendees from across the globe.
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July 16, 2013
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced an expansion of its ThinkServer® partner solution portfolio with VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™. The solution is available directly through Lenovo and Lenovo business partners in North America. Lenovo has fully tested and validated VMware vSphere with Operations Management with ThinkServer® enterprise-grade servers.
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July 16, 2013
Composite Software announced today the company’s fourth annual Data Virtualization Day 2013 will be held October 9 in New York City. Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst with Forrester Research, Inc., and Rick van der Lans, managing director and founder of R20/Consultancy, two of data virtualization’s leading analysts and thought leaders, will co-present “Data Virtualization: Where it is At, Where it is Going” to the world’s largest gathering of data virtualization professionals. Attendees will also hear vision and strategy presentations from Composite executives, as well as multiple Composite Software data virtualization case studies from leading companies in financial services, telecommunications and more.
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