Top 11 resume tips from 2015
Over the last year, CIO.com’s team of resume experts and career consultants have helped numerous IT professionals showcase their knowledge, experience and technical skills to help them land their dream IT jobs. Here are the top 11 resume tips from 2015 Sharon Florentine By Sharon Florentine CIO Over the last year, CIO.com’s team of resume […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Call intelligence for CRM; AX accelerator; Retail partnership; European food sector offering
by Linda Rosencrance Invoca Announces New Integration with Dynamics CRM Invoca, the call intelligence company, has announced a new integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, aimed at bringing conversations into the omnichannel customer journey by connecting phone calls with every digital touchpoint. With Invoca Connect, marketers can easily inject call intelligence into their existing technology stacks […]
Science as a Service Continues to Evolve with the Help of Amazon Web Services
Since its early inception in the mainframe era until around a decade ago, scientific computing held the reputation of a cloistered art — an arcane, guarded practice that only a select crowd in the highest reaches of government and academia understood. Its machines were monolithic, its software dense and overtly mathematical, and its management frameworks […]
How to increase employee retention with ‘stay’ interviews
CIO | High turnover hurts a company’s bottom line, and it also ruins morale for the employees left behind. Since 2012, attrition has been a huge problem for IT companies, and finding ways to stem the tide is increasingly important as turnover rates continue to rise. Most companies use exit interviews to gather feedback about […]
Microsoft acquires Metanautix with Quest for intelligent cloud
by Business Cloud News Microsoft has bought Californian start up Metanautix for an undisclosed fee in a bid to improve the flow of analytics data as part of its ‘intelligent cloud’ strategy. The Palo Alto vendor was launched by Theo Vassilakis and Toli Lerios in 2014 with $7 million. The Google and Facebook veterans had […]
Oracle gets tax breaks to build cloud campus in Texas
Business Cloud News Oracle has unveiled plans for a technology campus in Austin, Texas in a bid to expand its workforce by 50% in three years. It’s looking for millennials who want to work and live on site and sell cloud computing systems, by creating a combined office and housing complex. Oracle is also to […]
For Microsoft Dynamics NAV Retail Partner, Azure Managed Service Offers Speed, Simplicity in Sophisticated Scenarios
by Linda Rosencrance NaviPartner’s new retail solution, Dynamics-Retail.com, was designed to meet some key characteristics – to be cloud-based, to take advantage of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the open source e-commerce platform Magento, and to allow for rapid setup. The Copenhagen-based firm has chosen to host its new offering on Azure using the new Dynamics […]
Innofactor Acquires Swedish Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner Cinteros
by Linda Rosencrance Innofactor Plc, a Microsoft partner in Finland, has acquired Swedish IT services company and Dynamics CRM partner Cinteros AB. The acquisition is part of Innofactor strategy to become of the top service providers in the Microsoft ecosystem in the Nordic countries, according to company officials. With the Cinteros acquisition. Innofactor’s total number […]
Alan Greenspan renews call for H-1B expansion
By Patrick Thibodeau For more than 15 years, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been a part of the H-1B debate, calling for raising or eliminating visa caps. He did so again this week. Greenspan’s view is that the economy will expand with the size of the talent pool. But is he a credible […]
5 reasons 2016 will be the year of the ‘new IT’
CIO |Dec 14, 2015 9:44 AM PT Amit Pandey, CEO of cloud application delivery specialist Avi Networks, says 2016 will be the year of the “new IT.” The confluence of cloud environments and applications, along with technologies like software-defined networking, are going to rewrite the rules for IT in 2016, he says. The transformation […]