CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield

Leads a team of performance and capacity specialists in a dynamic and n-tier environment and is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and recommending solutions to performance problems with enterprise business applications. Analyzes the design and architecture of enterprise business applications and components to study the performance characteristics of the applications. Identifies…

Posted on: July 16, 2013 8:00 am

HP adds ex-Microsoft software head who created Lotus Notes to board

Hewlett-Packard Co. added three directors, including former Microsoft Corp. software head Ray Ozzie, as Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman tries to bolster sales with new technology and services amid a global PC slump. HP just last week lost its No. 1 PC sales ranking to Lenovo. Ozzie will be joined on…

Posted on: July 16, 2013 8:00 am

Telligent acquires Zimbra

Telligent acquires Zimbra Posted on 16-Jul-2013 10:23. | Filed under: News : SaaS. Telligent has acquired from VMware the assets of Zimbra, a messaging and collaboration solution. Upon closing, Telligent and Zimbra will merge to form Zimbra, a new software company offering a unified social collaboration suite. Terms of the Zimbra, which will…

Posted on: July 16, 2013 8:00 am

AsdeqDocs Expands Its Enterprise Content Management Solution To iPhone …

AsdeqDocs latest release provides secure document solution for iPhone and iPad and Android tablets and smartphones giving users full mobile access and synchronization of documents with corporate document repositories. AsdeqDocs brings military-grade encryption standards to the distribution and synchronization of sensitive files without the need to move documents into the…

Posted on: July 15, 2013 6:00 pm

HP Adds Software Visionary Ray Ozzie, Former Liberty Media CEO Robert …

After losing several board members in April, HP announced today that it is adding three new members to its board: Robert R. "Dob" Bennett, former president and chief executive officer of Liberty Media Corporation; Raymond E. Ozzie, former chief software architect of Microsoft and founder of new startup Talko; and…

Posted on: July 15, 2013 6:00 pm

Ex-Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie joins Hewlett-Packard’s board

Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors has received a major infusion of software know-how, with the addition of former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie . Ozzie is one of three new board members HP announced Monday, along with James Skinner, former McDonald’s CEO and current chairman of pharmacy chain Walgreens, and ex-Liberty…

Posted on: July 15, 2013 1:00 pm

Data analytics: Eye-popping results from Intel, UPS and Express Scripts

Simply put, data is the lifeblood at Express Scripts, a $44 billion pharmacy benefits management company based in St. Louis. The Fortune 100 company processes close to 1.5 billion prescriptions for some 300 million consumers per year, all the while analyzing the wealth of information that accompanies each order. "As we track a prescription…

Posted on: July 15, 2013 1:00 pm

Businesses urged to embrace use of social media

Social media expert encourages businesses to embrace use of the new media in engaging their target market. AFP.NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 12 With millions of Kenyans on social media, the challenge for most businesses is how to leverage on this new platform for opportunities. Businesses need to create strategies that will…

Posted on: July 15, 2013 8:00 am

UK lags Germany in advanced technology adoption, Forrester finds

The UK lags behind Germany in the adoption of advanced technologies such as mobile, cloud and analytics, according to a new report from analyst company Forrester Research. "Like German firms, a high proportion of UK firms 63% on average are implementing mobile technologies like smartphones and tablets and mobile apps," "But…

Posted on: July 15, 2013 8:00 am

DNUG-Hochschulwettbewerb gestartet

Die Hochschulinitiative steht fuer die permanente fachliche Foerderung des IT-Nachwuchses durch die Anwenderorganisation seit nunmehr 15 Jahren. Im Hochschulwettbewerb sind auch in diesem Jahr interessante und kreative Bachelor- bzw. Masterarbeiten mit Schwerpunkt IBM Collaboration Solutions gefragt. Die Ausschreibung umfasst dabei Aspekte in Bezug auf Social Business/Social Media ebenso wie solche…

Posted on: July 15, 2013 8:00 am