CIO’s guide to marketing automation software
By: James Martin – CIO Digital marketing is a fast-moving target even for those marketing pros who have embraced it. This CIO Wrapsheet will help you choose the right tools for your business. “We are moving more and more towards a place where one-to-one relationships are going to be more the norm, even at mass […]
Accenture outlines future of cloud and data analytics in sport
By: Jamie Davies Although the digital age has created a wealth of opportunities for organizations to create new revenue streams and attract new audiences, maintaining engagement of these customers is becoming an increasing difficult job, according to Accenture’s Nick Millman. The availability and ease of information in the 21st century has created a new dynamic […]
SAP and Microsoft expand partnership
By: Jamie Davies Microsoft and SAP have extended a long-standing partnership to deliver broad support for the SAP HANA platform on Microsoft Azure. The extended partnership will focus on greater integration between the two portfolios to simplify work-through integrations between Microsoft Office 365 and cloud solutions from SAP. The new team also claim the combined […]
Rackspace prioritises AWS and Azure partnerships for future growth
By: Jamie Davies Rackspace has reported healthy growth for Q1 2016, as the team continues its transition to become managed services provider, leveraging partnerships with AWS and Microsoft Azure. Revenues for the first quarter were reported at $518 million, a year-on-year growth of 9.9%, while profits grew 77.5%. Although the growth of the business over […]
Salesforce plans to launch IoT offering on AWS
By: Business Cloud News Salesforce has announced plans to launch its new IoT offering on AWS facilities, moving away from it traditional play of using its own data centre infrastructure, reports The Wall Street Journal. The offering is reportedly going to be launched by Salesforce in the next couple of months, is currently available to […]
24% of businesses expect a cyberattack within the next 90 days
By: Jamie Davies Research from VMWare has highlighted 24% of office workers and IT decision makers believe their organization will be the victim of a cyberattack with the next 90 days, mainly due to the belief that the threats are advancing at a faster pace than a company’s defences. Although the statistics imply the event […]
Microsoft Cloud Open for Business in Canada
By: Linda Rosencrance Microsoft Canada has announced that Microsoft Azure is now generally available in Canada from local datacenter regions in Toronto and Quebec City. In addition, Office 365 is now offering data residency for Canadian business customers and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is set to go live by September of this year. This announcement […]
How SMEs are benefitting from hybrid cloud architecture in the best of both worlds
By: Andrew Stuart Hybrid cloud architecture has been a while maturing, but now offers businesses unparalleled flexibility, ROI and scalability. The smaller the business, the more vital these traits are, making hybrid cloud the number one choice for SMEs in 2016. It’s been more than two years since Gartner predicted that, by 2017, 50 per […]
IRS Caught Over 30,000 Tax Returns Involving ID Theft
By: Michael Cohn The Internal Revenue Service’s expanded use of controls this tax season to identify fraudulent refund claims before accepting them into its processing system has allowed the IRS to identify approximately 35,000 fraudulent e-filed tax returns and 741 paper tax returns as of Feb. 29, 2016, according to a new government report. The […]
Microsoft adds more software capabilities to Azure IoT suite
By: Business Cloud News Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Solair, an Italian IoT software company which currently operates in the manufacturing, retail, food & beverage and transportation industries. Solair software, which runs on the Microsoft Azure platform, focuses on helping customers improve efficiently and profitably of their IoT initiatives. The acquisition continues Microsoft’s ambitions […]