Mobile is a key pillar for the German enterprise software giant SAP's future growth. SAP is relying on mobile platforms to reach its global strategy of 1 billion users for its solutions by 2015. Following this move, SAP announced on April 10 that it...
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...
International management consulting firm Accenture released findings about different attitudes around the world regarding mobile and connected health. Doctors in the United States were found by the company to be the least enthusiastic among eight countries surveyed and U.S. preparedness for a future of...
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...
América Móvil’s Claro Brazil has reduced the time it takes to add a new customer into the telecom operators’ base from 8-10 days to 2-3 days. This is a result of a change in business process management, through the implementation of a combination of...
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...
“Cloud computing is a fantastic way to sell more data.” By stressing this definition, the director of innovation at TIM Brazil, Maurício Cascão, defined the telecom operator’s strategy in launching cloud computing services offers in the country. Cascão said, during the TM Forum Latin...
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The arrival of Virgin Mobile in Latin America is exciting news. Richard Branson’s famous multi-industry brand will...
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...
Japan's NEC agreed to acquire Convergys' information management business for $499 million. NEC said the purchase complements its NetCracker Technology acquisition and solidifies its focus on expanding its reach into the global services and management business.
Among its business goals, NEC said it was looking...
Despite a lack of commercial launches, Brazil's mobile virtual network operator space seems to be cooking. At this point security insurance company Porto Seguro and Virgin Mobile Latin America, are both planning to launch MVNO services using Datora Telecom's network at some point this year....
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...
The Copenhagen Metrosubway changed its distributed antenna system (DAS) to better meet the need for wireless coverage in stations and trains with an investment of U.S. $2 million, according to Vasko Toshev from Niras, the company which implemented the system.
The chosen solution was TE...
Cisco is using its expertise in networks and the software that runs them to help companies manage and unify their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. The holistic approach is based on Cisco Borderless Network architecture. “The challenges that companies face are great,” Cisco's Inbar Lasser-Raab told RCR...
IBM Brazil said it has invested $22.85 million (R$40 million) to launch its first corporate public cloud in the country. According to José Luis Spagnuolo, cloud computing director at IBM Brazil, the investment is to prepare IBM’s data center, located in Hortolandia, for the...
When mature markets are saturated, emerging regions become great opportunities. In general, emerging countries tend to grow at higher rates due to lower market penetration. German software company SAP has for years followed this opportunity across the Latin America region with optimism.
“It is one...
Cisco Systems announced its intent to acquire NDS Group for approximately $5 billion. NDS provides video software and content security solutions designed to enable service providers and media companies to deliver and monetize video entertainment.
The acquisition is expected to close during the second half...
Avaya announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Radvision, a provider of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies over IP and wireless networks for approximately $230 million.
The proposed deal calls for Radvision shareholders to receive $11.85 per share, with the acquisition expected to close within...
The recent consumerization of IT and bring-your-own-device phenomenon, which clearly has been boosted by Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad, have been big drivers for (CIOs) to start looking at Apple devices as part of their corporate strategy.
From Apple’s perspective the enterprise...
