MIAMI - Latin American telecom operator giant America Movil has begun a project to standardize its company's primary IT systems in the region. Named America Movil One, the project was launched after Brazilian Claro transformed its business process management systems by implementing a combination...
It’s a delicate (some might say indelicate) question to ask – What is your mobile strategy? But I’ve learned not to make assumptions when companies come to us looking for help with their mobility issues.
Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by users under the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon; other times it is the corporation that starts...
Increased mobility, cloud computing, and IT consumerization are the main enterprise trends that companies around the world are basing their strategies on. RCR Wireless News is watching these trends to learn how they are affecting companies and impacting chief information officers (CIOs).
Vendors, consulting firms,...
Enterprises are changing to become more mobile, integrating cloud computing and allowing IT consumerization. RCR Wireless News takes a look at the most relevant trends to discuss how they are impacting companies and CIOs, as well as what solution providers are doing to address...
After growing 11.3% in 2011, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., is projecting top line growth of 15-20% in 2012. This is an aggressive estimate in light of the company’s carrier network division, which grew at just under 3% last year while representing 73% of the...
IBM (NYSE:IBM) unveiled Mobile Foundation, a portfolio of products and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments, at its ongoing Impact 2012 Conference in Las Vegas this week. Aimed at solutions for laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the new offering follows IBM's recent acquisition of Worklight and...
Cloud computing apps are set to become much more popular by 2014, with Latin America and Asia-Pacific leading the way. Currently, large companies in emerging markets are the most aggressive adopters of cloud computing, while their European and U.S. counterparts remain more conservative about...
Boosted by the growth of smartphone use, mobile banking is on track to become as common as Internet banking in Brazil during the next five to seven years, industry analysts say. From 2010 to 2011, current mobile banking accounts grew by 49% to reach...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) yesterday announced it will acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps large organizations access and analyze enterprise data. IBM also announced that its big data platform will now run on Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop.
The announcements reinforce IBM's growth strategy of seeking business analytics and optimization opportunities. IBM is under an aggressive acquisition plan...
Google yesterday unveiled Google Drive, a cloud-based file storage, management, and sharing service. Its use in the workplace is inevitable and could present advantages, but it could also present some headaches to chief information officers (CIOs), according to Richard Edwards, a principal analyst at Ovum.
Using Google Drive, people can...
Adobe Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ADBE) is moving to change its lifetime license model to a monthly subscription-based offering. Adobe launched the effort this week around the globe with Creative Cloud, a new way of providing its tools and services. It is a hub for making,...
If up to this year companies only investigated enterprise mobile solutions, 2012 might prove to be a milestone year for companies to finally include them in their IT strategy, Paulo Camara, mobility services manager at Ci&T, said in an exclusive interview.
“We are facing a...
IT consumerization and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend are changing companies and as consequence, their IT departments. If a couple of years ago, a company's chief information officer (CIO) was “the man” who decided all, current employees – and many high-level executives – are now...
Mobile, cloud, social and information are the four pillars of what Gartner calls a "nexus force." These topics will drive business in coming years, and both chief executives officers (CEOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) need to develop strategies focusing on them. To continue...
British American Tobacco has closed a $209 million deal with Deutsche Telekom's IT subsidiary T-Systems. The seven-year contract focused on cloud computing offerings represents one of the largest cloud deals in T-Systems' history.
Over a two-year period, British American Tobacco and T-Systems will transition the...
Eyeing the growing range of connected devices, ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient have created a joint venture focused on delivering a secure and accessible environment for advanced services running on platforms such as tablets, smart-TVs, games consoles and smartphones.
All three companies will contribute...
When it comes to bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, chief information officers (CIOs) tend to become resistant, mostly because of management and security issues. BYOD is a trend which sooner or later will catch up with many companies, so IT managers must become more open to...
The Brazilian holding company EBX Group, owned by Brazil’s richest man Eike Batista, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have reached an agreement under which IBM will acquire a 20% stake in SIX Automação SA, an EBX Group subsidiary focused on industrial automation. IBM will also...
Brazil represents a key global priority and growth opportunity for Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO). In recent years, the country’s Cisco subsidiary has been growing consistently, more than 20% each fiscal year. This could be enough to justify the company's new investments of more than $546.6...
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, which develops cloud-based clinical trial operations applications. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2012. The two companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
ClearTrial, a private company founded in...
Mobility is a great enterprise tool for speeding up the decision-making process. Whether employees bring their own devices to the company (BYOD) or firms deliver them to their workforce, the ever-growing number of smartphone options and the recent explosion of tablet computers oblige IT...
Following the mobile and cloud trends in corporate applications, the Brazilian Sonda IT, owned by the Chilean Sonda, set its portfolio to meet companies’ need for “as a service” offers tied to mobility and cloud computing.
Generally speaking, Sonda IT has packaged software, service and...
HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced the merger of its imaging and printing group (IPG) with its personal systems group (PSG) to create the printing and personal systems group. The company said the organizational realignment aims to improve performance and drive profitable growth across its portfolio...
