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 [...]
Read More..>>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 . . .
Read More..>>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 . . .
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 . . .
Read More..>>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,” [...]
Read More..>>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 . . .
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
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