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2012, May 18
2012, May 18 We have seen analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) used in many ways. Very often these new uses come from “consumers” – business users who are not working in traditional IT departments.
China is geared up to embrace the workshifting trend with 99% of organizations hoping to implement workshift strategies by 2013.
This is one of the findings of Citrix Workshifting Index, a Citrix-commissioned research program that looked at how organizations globally are approaching workshifting – the ability to move work to more efficient locations, times and resources.
A combined telecommunication and banking service platform that turns the mobile phone into an innovative and efficient payment instrument for carrying out money transfers and air time purchasing is now offered in Mexico.
Infrastructure management (IM) vendor solutions need to include a higher-level management perspective on the cost, value, risk, and flexibility aspects of delivering IT services, said Ovum.
High-tech companies should do a complete reevaluation of their business operations should they want to succeed in transforming their traditional business models of shipping hardware products or packaged software to a cloud service model, a new Accenture research has underscored.
A significant opportunity exists around personal and usage data as consumers surprisingly show an increasing willingness to allow their data to be tracked. Over two-thirds of consumers are willing to allow their online usage and personal profile information to be tracked.
It is common these days to manage a regional team that you can’t actually see. And although the virtual team is united by business goals and facilitated by technology, a frequent question often comes to mind: “How do I know they’re working?” Working from a distance is becoming one of the great challenges of 21st century leadership.
Wah Shing Toys Company Ltd (Wah Shing Toys), an original equipment and design manufacturers for toys and consumer entertainment-related goods, has implemented Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (Agile PLM) solutions to facilitate knowledge sharing across the organization and enhance its new product dev
Research carried out by China’s Tsinghua University Media Survey Lab has found that professionals working in the Chinese information and communications technology (ICT) industry are open to ‘going green’ but struggle with how to use technology to achieve carbon reduction targets.
The National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM) has launched a green IT campaign dubbed "My City – Lets make it Green" in the Indian city of Pune to encourage green practices among businesses, their workforce & the government.
The developing regions of the world will be the biggest source for new broadband activity in 2012, according to an IHS iSuppli Broadband & Digitally Connected Home Market Tracker report.
Cloud-based contact center software Five9 has raised $12 million in a new round of equity financing, which is expected to help the company expand its services.
It is much easier to see the connection between ICT usage and carbon footprint. Computers, mobile phones and other devices demand huge power consumption and it is estimated that the ICT sector contribute 2 to 2.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, including radio communications systems and equipment.
Asian IT chiefs looking at tapping into the China market need to understand that higher interest rates and contracted private sector credit have affected housing investment and foreign trade. A weak world demand will also further dampen foreign trade activity,
In terms of sheer numbers, trading has come unhinged. Transaction volumes that once elapsed over several minutes or hours are resolved today in fractions of a second or minutes. This intense acceleration in volume is directly responsible for the glut of data facing every capital market firm around the globe.
Who says that only the developed world is cashing in on the dividends of the mobile revolution?
Singapore is the most livable city in the world for Asian expatriates, according to the latest Location Ratings for expatriate living conditions published by ECA International.
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