Creativity Center Helps Transform Innovative Ideas into Solutions
QlikTech, a leading provider of business intelligence software, today announced the launch of QlikView Labs on the premise that the most groundbreaking business solutions start with an idea that may seem unrelated or even unobtainable. With its history as a disruptor in the industry, QlikTech’s culture has been built on the proven track record that ideas often turn into innovations that can redefine a market...
Business-Driven IT Management Connects Technology, Business, and IT for Greater Business Value, IT Efficiency and Agility
Delivering the industry’s most comprehensive business-driven IT management capabilities, Oracle® Enterprise Manager 11g helps maximize business agility and productivity through an integrated approach to IT management....
Only half of IBM's survey of Insurance CEOs believe their enterprises are adequately prepared to handle a highly volatile, increasingly complex business environment according to a new report by IBM. Sixty-eight percent expect the level of complexity to grow significantly over the next five years, but just 53 percent believe they know how to deal with it successfully. Eighty-two percent of Insurance CEOs cited increased government regulation as a major source of uncertainty in the new economic environment...
The University of Arizona (UA) today announced it has selected the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite to provide 18,000 faculty and staff members with next-generation communications tools to greatly enhance collaboration on the campus, laying the groundwork for a new cloud-computing approach to higher education IT investment. The Microsoft Corp. online solution is an enterprise-class set of communication and collaboration software delivered as a service, organization-wide. In addition to updating the university’s numerous and antiquated e-mail and calendaring programs to one centralized system, employees will get 10 GB mailboxes and new features such as instant messaging, presence and online meetings with the ability to share their desktop, audio or video with other users on or off campus...
Stein Mart Inc. has selected a broad suite of Oracle® Retail merchandising and planning applications to support its strategy of delivering freshness in merchandise and improving profitability across its 267 department stores.
The implementation of Oracle Retail applications is part of a larger business transformation that Stein Mart is undertaking to improve margins and bolster overall performance..
Retailers of electronics and appliances in the U.S. are expected to grow sales of those products by $953 million in June, July and August, according to an analytics-based forecast produced by IBM. The forecast represents a four percent increase compared with the same period last year.
The IBM forecast is produced using statistical and analytical software to evaluate both the long-term sales trend and seasonal peaks. IBM consultants use these predictive techniques to help clients improve performance by addressing complex issues of supply and demand. These techniques also aid clients in planning product mix, new store locations, staffing and advertising spend...
MicroStrategy Dashboards Provide Rapid Insights into Critical Business Data
MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Cardinal Glass Industries has selected MicroStrategy to enhance its reporting and analysis capabilities. Cardinal Glass is a recognized leader in residential glass applications, magnetron sputtering, and glass research and development.
Reinforcing the messages to customers delivered by SAP Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe in their keynotes at SAPPHIRE® NOW, SAP CTO and Member of Executive Board Vishal Sikka and SAP co-founder and Supervisory Board Chairman Hasso Plattner told audiences how SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) aims to eliminate the divide between transactional and analytical applications with in-memory technology. At SAPPHIRE NOW, held simultaneously in Frankfurt, Germany and Orlando, Florida, May 17-19, 2010, the high-tech visionaries highlighted the next wave of real real-time computing technologies that will enable new applications, dramatically increase the pervasive reach of SAP systems across mobile devices and empower people from the shop-floor to the boardroom.
IBM will manage back office processes for the company's Life and Pension Insurance unit
SulAmerica has signed a new agreement with IBM Brazil to manage its business processes for the company's Life and Pension Insurance unit. IBM (NYSE: IBM) will be responsible for the back office activities of both areas, including issuing policies, registration updates, document transfers and claim management. The 12-year agreement signed in April 2010 is valued at more than $200 million.
The agreement also covers information technology (IT) infrastructure services, maintenance of legacy applications, construction of a dedicated service center in the city of Barueri and the hiring of professionals currently allocated to the insurance company's Life and Pension operations. In order to maintain service continuity, IBM Brazil will also support the management of current applications.
Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced a new partnership with 1010data, providers of high-performance, hosted data warehouse solutions. This partnership links Information Builders' popularWebFOCUS analytics solutions to 1010data's namesake hosted database, improving customer analytics performance and lowering data warehousing costs.
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