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InfoSol partners with and integrates Yellowfin Business Intelligence

May 3, 2013 No Comments

The agreement will see InfoSol offer Yellowfin’s easy-to-use BI software, and associated implementation and training services, throughout America and Canada. As part of the agreement, InfoSol has integrated Yellowfin into its popular BI report and dashboard publishing solution, InfoBurst®.

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ATS International Partners with InfinityQS to Offer Manufacturing Intelligence and Enterprise Quality to Global Customer Base

May 2, 2013 No Comments

InfinityQS International, Inc., the global authority on real-time Manufacturing Intelligence and enterprise quality, announced today that it has established a strategic partnership that will enable ATS International B.V. to offer ProFicient, InfinityQS’ enterprise quality hub, to a global customer base. An independent solution provider of industrial and process automation, quality, and information technology solutions, ATS has 30 offices in 17 different countries, which will facilitate the deployment and support of InfinityQS’ Manufacturing Intelligence and enterprise quality software worldwide.

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JobProx to Crowdfund App That Helps Hiring Managers and Job Seekers Meet While On the Go

May 2, 2013 No Comments

It’s a tough world out there and employers receive hundreds, if not thousands, of resumes each day. So, how is one supposed to distinguish him- or herself amongst the plethora of resumes? Well, when users meet with someone via the JobProx app, they have the opportunity to present their real self to a possible future employer. The possible future employer then gets to see this candidate in person, and not as the many pieces of paper they receive every day.

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Metro Transit Extends Investment in Video and Situation Intelligence Solutions from Verint

May 2, 2013 No Comments

Verint® Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) today announced that Metro Transit Police Department, part of Metro Transit in Minneapolis/St. Paul, is extending its investment in Verint technology, standardizing key parts of its transportation technology platform with Nextiva® Video Management Software™ (VMS) for the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (CCLRT) Project.

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NaviSite Survey Reveals Enterprise IT Executives’ Biggest Trends and Challenges

May 2, 2013 No Comments

NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company and premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today announced the results of a survey aimed at enterprise executives to understand the biggest IT trends impacting their strategy. NaviSite surveyed more than 500 IT professionals from organizations with more than 200 employees, and, according to respondents, the top three trends facing enterprise IT departments today are constricted budgets (31 percent), cloud (25 percent), and data explosion (25 percent).

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Interop 2013: Major Updates to Four ManageEngine Apps Empower Companies to Become Real-Time IT Organizations

May 1, 2013 No Comments

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today previewed major product updates the company will launch at Interop 2013. Taken together, the upgraded products help companies build real-time IT organizations by optimizing IT departments’ responsiveness and overall management of both their latest technologies and more established systems and resources.

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Array Networks Expands Application Delivery Networking Portfolio to Include WAN Optimization Controllers

May 1, 2013 No Comments

Array Networks Inc., a global leader in application delivery networking, today announced the immediate availability of its new aCelera WAN optimization controller product line. The new aCelera product line is comprised of both virtual appliances, which provide scalability, flexibility and affordability for cloud and virtualized environments, as well as hardware appliances that deliver an unbeatable combination of functionality, performance and return-on-investment.

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BIG VALUE FROM BIG DATA: TWO ANALYTIC POWERHOUSES JOIN FORCES

May 1, 2013 No Comments

TIBCO Software (NASDAQ: TIBX), one of the world’s leading providers of analytics and event processing software, and Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a leading provider of enterprise analytic solutions, today announced TIBCO Spotfire® event analytics as a key component of the Teradata Unified Data Architecture™ (UDA).

JobProx Hires Marketing Experts to Launch New App on Popular Crowdfunding Platform

May 1, 2013 No Comments

obProx is a smartphone app that connects recruiters and employers with job seekers when they are near each other to give a face to an endless stream of digital resumes and applicants. In order for the team at JobProx to develop the app, they will need to raise $10,000 in capital on Kickstarter, the top crowdfunding platform. JobProx has hired Command Partners, the top digital marketing agency in Charlotte, NC, to carry out the campaign and all online marketing initiatives.

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IT Briefcase May Newsletter: Topic – Social Business

May 1, 2013 No Comments

Tweet Check out IT Briefcase May Newsletter on Social Business: VIEW MAY NEWSLETTER

SolarWinds Announces Latest Free Offerings: SolarWinds Firewall Browser Free Tool and Kiwi Syslog Server Free Edition

April 30, 2013 No Comments

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced the release of the new SolarWinds Firewall Browser free tool and the availability of its free Kiwi Syslog Server. These free solutions are part of SolarWinds’ extensive line of free tools and free products that address pain points in network, systems, SIEM, virtualization, storage, and general IT management.

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Four in Ten Marketing Executives Unprepared to Meet Objectives Due to Lack of Funding and Internal Inefficiencies, Accenture Study Finds

April 29, 2013 No Comments

April 29, 2013 – Four in 10 top marketing executives say they are not well prepared to meet their objectives, citing a lack of funding and inefficient business practices as the main impediments to improved performance, according to global research by Accenture (NYSE:ACN). The research also reveals a growing commitment to digital marketing and analytics capabilities to tackle an increasingly complex customer environment.

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Schneider Electric building new high-tech R&D Innovation Center in the Greater Boston Area

April 29, 2013 No Comments

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced the construction of a new 235,000 square foot Global Innovation and Technology Center just outside of Boston. When complete, the new center will house a world-class research and development (R&D) laboratory and bring together more than 850 Schneider Electric employees, plus growth potential for expansion.

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20 Percent Online, Mobile Shopping Growth Drive Up Dept. Store, Home Goods Sales in First Quarter, Reports IBM

April 25, 2013 No Comments

First quarter 2013 online shopping grew more than 20 percent over 1Q 2012, more than five times in-store sales growth, helping drive up department store and home goods purchases, according to the IBM Online Retail Index. The IBM Index comes on the heels of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau report which announced in-store sales for the January through March 2013 period were up 3.7 percent.

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Backupify Launches “Spring Release for Google Apps” with Enhanced Backup and Recovery Features

April 23, 2013 No Comments

Backupify, the leading provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, today launched an enhanced set of backup and recovery features to support its core offering for enterprise-level organizations on Google Apps. The new “Spring Release for Google Apps” includes additional tools designed to provide more efficient ways for administrators and end-users to manage their backups within the complex internal structure of larger organizations.

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Pentaho Acquires Dashboard and UX Specialist Partner Webdetails

April 22, 2013 No Comments

Delivering the future of analytics, Pentaho announced today that it has completed the acquisition of its Portugal-based consulting partner Webdetails. Pentaho will benefit from Webdetails’ visual interface development expertise and international consulting services provided by its 20-strong team.

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SCANPAY.IT BRINGS CREDIT CARD VISUAL SWIPE TO MOBILE COMMERCE

April 22, 2013 No Comments

SCANPAY.IT launches a new method to pay on smartphones and tablets that makes entering credit card information as easy as taking a picture and aims to integrate this solution in over 10 000 mobile applications worldwide and make it a standard approved by a large majority of users.

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Hitachi Data Systems Unveils New Approach for Unified Data Protection and Instance Management

April 18, 2013 No Comments

Hitachi Data Instance Manager Provides a Holistic View and Management of Data Copies, Lowers Costs and Enhances Effectiveness of Data Protection

Yellowfin launches new consumer-oriented Android application for Mobile BI

April 18, 2013 No Comments

Global Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, Yellowfin, has launched a new HTML 5 application for Android devices, offering the same feel and functionality as its existing native applications for iPad and iPhone.

ManageEngine Introduces Industry-First ‘Enterprise Search’ for IT Teams in IT360

April 18, 2013 No Comments

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the addition of enterprise search to its integrated IT management solution, IT360. The industry-first move introduces a unified search console that is capable of searching databases of any third-party IT management and business applications — without requiring the user to understand the underlying database architectures or write SQL queries.

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Hortonworks, Mirantis and Red Hat Team to Simplify Deployment and Management of Apache Hadoop on OpenStack

April 18, 2013 No Comments

Companies announce plan to accelerate Project Savanna within the OpenStack Foundation

Schneider Electric StruxureWare™ Enhancement Enables Holistic Management of Data Center Infrastructure across Business Segments

April 11, 2013 No Comments

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today introduced StruxureWare for Data Centers v2.0, an integrated suite of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software engineered to manage data centers across multiple domains.

Birst Leverages Amazon Redshift to Offer End-to-End Data Warehouse Capabilities

April 10, 2013 No Comments

Birst Inc., the leading provider of agile business analytics, today announced it will leverage Amazon Redshift, a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Amazon Redshift is designed for developers or businesses that require the full features and capabilities of a relational data warehouse on large data sets. Birst provides a turnkey solution to build, manage, and analyze relational data warehouses.

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Quest Diagnostics Launches Novel Rheumatoid Arthritis Tests

April 10, 2013 No Comments

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced the availability of two new blood tests for aiding the early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disorder that can cause debilitating joint damage.

Cloud Cruiser Announces Integrated Chargeback and Billing for Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1

April 10, 2013 No Comments

Cloud Cruiser announced today at Microsoft Management Summit 2013 the availability of new solutions that enable Microsoft hosters and enterprise customers to implement chargeback and billing with Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 SP1, and Windows Azure.

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ManageEngine Project Management and ServiceDesk Combo Goes GA

April 10, 2013 No Comments

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the general availability of the project management module for its ITIL-ready help desk software, ServiceDesk Plus. With the project management module moving out of beta, IT administrators now have a production-level, integrated tool for managing large IT help desk projects and for collaborating with different teams and experts.

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IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, Citrix, others former software-defined network group

April 9, 2013 No Comments

Software-defined networking, or SDN, is getting a big boost with a project called “Open Daylight.”

SecurityCoverage Signs Distribution Agreement with SYNNEX Canada

April 8, 2013 No Comments

SecurityCoverage Inc., a leading provider of mobile device security and data protection solutions for consumers, announced the company has entered into a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Canada.

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Progress Software Expands Big Data Connectivity With New HiveServer2 and Cloudera Support

April 7, 2013 No Comments

New DataDirect Connect® for ODBC Driver Technology Boosts Data Warehouse Performance, Enables Better Data Access for ODBC Interfaces

DataStax launches into Europe, Middle East and Africa

April 5, 2013 No Comments

Today we announced DataStax EMEA, which offers sales, marketing and support services for DataStax Enterprise, our Apache Cassandra-based big data platform throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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