Top 100 Pacesetters Includes Minnesota Business Technology Company
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Software reseller Automated Business Solutions was named as a Top 100 Technology Pacesetter for 2007. The list is compiled annually by Source Media and is published as a supplement to the December 2007 issue of Accounting Technology magazine.
Read more at PR-USA . . .
Software Investment Flattens
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Finance | Leave a Comment
Software start-ups see venture capital investments weakening along with the economy. While other business technologies rise, such as biotechnology, medical devices, and energy, software is seen as a more mature industry and venture capitalists are looking to new avenues such as ‘clean tech,’ resulting in a slowing investment in software.
Read more at Boston.com . . [...]
NextPage Named One of Infoworld’s 2008 Technology of the Year
Posted on January 25, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
NextPage has earned the title “Best Document Retention System” as part of the InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year awards honoring business technology. They earned the honor for their Document Retention product. In the Data Management category, it was considered the most innovative enterprise product.
Read more at marketwire . . .
EDS Gets Contract to Test Business Technology
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under Finance, Technology | Leave a Comment
The Victorian Department of Infrastructure has awarded a year-long contract to EDS to operate new cargo movement technology designed to integrate information from thousands of users into a single online system. The trial will be conducted at the Port of Melbourne and hopes to duplicate the success of a similiar online portal at the Port [...]
Read More..>>This Sector of the Market is Recession Proof
Posted on January 23, 2008 - Filed Under Marketing | Leave a Comment
With the imminent recession looming on the horizon many investors, whether professional corporations or individuals using online services will choose to cut back on their spending. There is one sector of the market, however, that has proven it has the ability to withstand such economic downturns – the Software-as-a-Service sector.
If the U.S. heads into [...]
SAP Awards Scholarships to Future Business Technology Innovators
Posted on January 23, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
SAP American Inc., has awarded $10,000 scholarships to ten students in their second-annual program. The scholarship challenges students to “apply business technology concepts to solve industry challenges through research.” Topics submitted by the winners ranged from inventory management to greenhouse emissions tracking and workplace and privacy ethics.
Read the full story at CNN Money . . [...]
Excellency in Technology Awards Announced
Posted on January 22, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
The winners of the 2008 SmallBusinessComputing.com Excellence in Technology Awards were announced today by JupiterOnlineMedia.
Multiple awards were given in four separate categories: Hardward, Security, Software/Services, and E-Commerce. The complete list of winners is available at smallbusinesscomputing.com …
FBI Moves to Protect Business Technology
Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
The FBI recently revealed a program focused on protecting the trade secrets and technology of American universities and businesses.
With the US spending more on research and development (both government and private) than all other countries, America is a prime target for economic espionage. The new initiatives, one for business and one for universities, attempt to [...]
8 Tech Stock to Follow in 2008
Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Gorilla Trades bases its picks off of technical parameters gaging their potential for high yields resulting in a selection of stocks from a wide variety of industries. This is good for diversification. Here are some stock from the technology industry that are worth taking a look at in 2008.
1. Akamai Technologies’ Q3 indicated that [...]
Costs of Business Technology Rising in South Africa
Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
The Enterprise Storage and Server Group Manager of HP SA, Yergen Govender, cautions that businesses need to “consider the new reality” and “change the way they use power.” The statements come in the wake rising energy costs and rolling blackouts in South Africa.
HP’s scientists have estimated that 415 million tons of coal and 864 million [...]
Oracle to Purchase BEA with $8.5 Billion
Posted on January 17, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Wednesday, Oracle announced that it will acquire the middleware maker at a cost of nearly $19.38 per share. Oracle plans to incorporate BEA’s technology to enhance its newly developed Fusion Middleware.
Oracle founder and CEO, Larry Ellisons, says
“BEA has been a pioneer in middleware.”Alfred [Chuang, BEA CEO] is credited with a lot of those successes.”
Read more [...]
New Social Network for CIO’s & Business Technology Leaders
Posted on January 16, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Tuesday saw the launch of the first social media network that specifically targets Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and other business technology professionals. CIOZone (TM) was created by Professional Social Networks, Inc, in an attempt to provide IT executives with a place to connect and network about their companies and careers.
Read more at Earthtimes.org . . [...]
Top 10 Prediction Reports for Health Industry will Transform Business and Technology
Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Today a series of reports listing Top 10 Predictions for the health industry were released by Health Industry Insights, an independent research & advisory firm. The three reports cover Life Science, Payer and Provider predictions.
Read more at Health Industry Insights . . .
Business and Technology Meet as Silicon Valley Lures MBA Candidates
Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
A record 115 MBA candidates traveled MIT to Silicon Valley as part of an ongoing recruiting program. This year’s candidates seek to join over 9,700 MIT alums in internships and jobs at leading California tech companies and startups.
Read more at Boston.com . . .
Is Your Business Technology Worthy of the Green 15?
Posted on January 10, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
InfoWorld is now accepting nominations for a new award honoring 2007’s “Green 15.”
InfoWorld describes the ideal winners as “projects that leverage technology to measurably cut waste, reduce organizations’ negative impact on the environment, and/or promote sustainable business-technology practices.”
Nominations will be accepted through the end of February with the awards being announced on Earth Day (April [...]
Global Governance Key for Business Technology
Posted on January 9, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Governance is defined by Gartner (an IT research and consulting firm) as an organization “style and process for making decisions about business technology and resources.” In the 21st century, businesses need to know not just that a project failed, but what process was used to make the decisions within the project. Governance is key.
This article [...]
Consumer Electronics Foreshadows Business Technology
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas offers a taste of the future of business technology. What starts out as a fun gadget in a few years may morph into technology that improves business.
Read more at bMighty.com . . .
Technology of the Year Awards from InfoWorld
Posted on January 7, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
The 2008 winners of the “Technology of the Year” award were announced today on the InfoWorld website. The winners were evaluated during the past year along with hundreds of other products. These were found to be “the most capable, most polished, most groundbreaking, and most valuable products on the IT landscape.”
Categories include “data management,” “networking,” [...]
Uses and Misuses of a Critical Business Technology
Posted on January 4, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Ventana Research has released a study examining how businesses use and misuse spreadsheet programs. They find that 50% of users find major formula and data errors in the spreadsheets they use regularly and 42% find out-of-date information in those documents frequently or all the time.
Read more at Tekrati . . .
CMP Acquires Mass Event Labs for its Business Technology Group
Posted on January 3, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
CMP has acquired Mass Events Labs, a unconference-style and custom event producer, for $1.2 million. David Berlind joins CMP as executive conference director for Interop and blogger for TechWeb.
Senior Vice President, Eric Faurot, explains the deal, “From an Interop perspective, we wanted someone like that who can be a beacon for how business technology [...]
2008 Manufacturing Predictions Feature Technology Investments
Posted on January 2, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
The annual Worldwide Manufacturing Top 10 Predictions was released by Manufacturing Insights, an independent research and advisory firm. The predictions for 2008 include:
– Machine to Machine (M2M) technology will emerge as a key enabler to enhanced service delivery.
– IT spending in the supply chain area will focus on fulfillment execution.
– Product management software investments will [...]
Embrace New Technologies to Lure Gen Y
Posted on January 2, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Americans between the ages of 11 and 27 are part of “Generation Y.” Almost as large as the baby boomer generation and twice that of Generation X, Gen Y is a growing force. Businesses need to match Gen Y’s love of technology if they are going to lure them as consumers and employees.
“A survey of [...]