SAP’s strategy to go beyond traditional enterprise resource planning, moving toward mobile, big data and cloud computing has begun a new chapter. The German enterprise software giant has acquired SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has acquired Hiflex Software GmbH, a privately held global software solutions provider specializing in Web-to-print and management information systems solutions for printing services. HP said the acquisition will help it break the traditional barriers of how and where business customers print.
Although news, the big data concept has been recently spread among ICT market. “Big meets cloud” has been the EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) slogan this year. Big data and cloud impact directly and they are changing a lot the technology roll. That’s why five...
Accustomed to the U.S. market, where banks have had no problems with buying standard ATMs, NCR Corp. has had to change to compete in the Brazilian market, where banks insist on customized machines.
While chief information officers are figuring out what -- and no longer when -- they will move to cloud computing, service providers are customizing their portfolio to include the cloud. Sometimes the answer has more to do with renaming existing solutions than with designing a whole new product portfolio. Hewlett-Packard is following this path.
Chief information officers are looking forward to three main trends that will (and in several cases already are) challenging their own corporate strategies: consumerization, cloud computing, and mobile security and management. Pressured by chief financial officers to reduce the total cost of ownership and...
IBM’s growth market unit, which includes 152 emerging countries under China’s leadership, is expected to represent 30% of the company's revenues by 2015, an increase of 5 percentage points from IBM's initial prediction of 25%. “Brazil is No. 2, behind China, in terms of...
As previously announced, Google is ending several services, such as its ambitious collaboration tool Wave, medical records engine Google Health, Twitter competitor Google Buzz, Wikipedia-like aggregate Knol and PC file-searching tool Google Desktop.
This week, the Internet company sent e-mails to communicate its customers the...
T-Mobile USA garnered some attention as Google unveiled its highly anticipated music offering in Los Angeles. As the only nationwide operator not offering Apple’s iPhone and corresponding iTunes service, T-Mobile USA used its long history with Google’s Android mobile operating system to share some...
Atos, a European information technology services company and the worldwide IT partner for next year's Olympic Games in London, and the Chinese management software solutions Ufida International Holdings have invested U.S. $7.8 million to create Yunano, a joint venture to offer cloud services.
Service fulfillment is one of the twin pillars of the traditional OSS/BSS architecture, turning customer orders into active communication services and mirroring a parallel flow of chargeable records from network to bill. But these straightforward days are fast disappearing – are we now witnessing fulfillment’s final finale?
Ask chief information officers about their enterprise resource planning system, and they will probably refer to it not as ERP, but as SAP, using the name of German enterprise software giant SAP AG (NYSE: SAP). CIOs often use SAP as a synonym for ERP,...
Consumer appetite for video-on-demand services – the ability to access videos when and where it is convenient to them – is on the rise. The arrival of 3G/4G and LTE networks has opened up new bandwidth for on-demand access, with entertainment such as movies and television shows driving adoption. Other driving factors are at work, too, particularly for mobile subscribers, which leaped over the 300 million mark in the United States alone this past year.
Cloud, social, mobility and an explosion in information were pointed by Gartner as the new nexus of forces that are creating a necessity to look different to the business. The trends identified by consultant firm drive companies to re-invent themselves to become more focused...
Terry McCabe, CTO of Mavenir Systems, says there are many bumps on the road to actually offering valuable services to subscribers over LTE. He also cautions that LTE networks can create opportunities for "over-the-top" competitors to offer new services to consumers if operators are...
RCR Wireless News is on hand to cover Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Brazil at this week in São Paulo. Be sure not to miss our stories.
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A recent IDC report on cloud computing showed that worldwide revenue from public IT cloud services exceeded $16 billion in 2009, and is forecast to increase at a compound annual rate of 27.4% to $55.5 billion in 2014. IDC noted that this growth is...
Corporate mobility, increased adoption of cloud computing and “green” IT are highlights of a recent survey from Accenture entitled: “Brazil Infrastructure Maturity X-Ray.”The survey, which was conducted in partnership with IDC, showed the maturity level of IT infrastructure management. Brazilians firms were touted to...
Over the next three years, the UK-based firm BT Global Services, part of BT Group plc, will double its business in Latin American countries. Although the company does not disclose regional numbers, its current Latam revenue is estimated at $500 million. The company believes...
Big meets cloud has been the EMC slogan this year. during the recent Futurecom event, Marcio Kanamaru, global client solutions director at EMC, talked to RCR Wireless News about how this new trend is impacting business and being affected by the development of devices...
InfiNet Wireless, manufacturer and provider of carrier-grade wireless infrastructure solutions, announced that LCR Honda has selected its InfiMan 2x2 wireless solution to provide a mobile team communications infrastructure for its race-day locations. Both engineering and mechanical teams rely on high-speed, high-capacity communications connections to...
InfiNet Wireless, manufacturer and provider of carrier-grade wireless infrastructure solutions, announced that LCR Honda has selected its InfiMan 2x2 wireless solution to provide a mobile team communications infrastructure for its race-day locations. Both engineering and mechanical teams rely on high-speed, high-capacity communications connections to...
Big Blue held its 5th IBM Forum in São Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25. During the event, company said that cloud computing and emergent markets are pillars of its growth. Check below
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ViaSat Inc. is supplying its Edge Access Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) system to Grupo TVSA of Argentina, enabling the CATV and broadband Internet provider to offer triple play services. ViaSat is also integrating a back office application for administration, provisioning, and billing from IPVision called...
