During a recent House Oversight Committee hearing, the state of federal IT was described as “a ticking time bomb.” As someone who has seen the evolution of government IT over the last 20 years, I can agree.
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In this spring 2011 interview, newly appointed Quadrant Software CEO Steve Woodard describes changes in personnel and management policies following the acquisition of Quadrant by private equity firm Candescent Partners. This video features Mike Cain of IBM’s DB2 for i Center of Excellence and Rich Ollari of Resolution Xcase discussing the use of SQL for DB2 for i modernization and data-centric programming.
Red Hat and Jive Share Best Practices for Overcoming IT Fragmentation with an Interactive Intranet
This Thursday, Jive Software , Inc. and Red Hat , a leading open-source solution provider, will host a webinar to address how companies can ease this IT burden and give employees more integrated communication and collaboration experiences via interactive intranet solutions. will explain how Red Hat transitioned away from a traditional intranet and centralized its disparate tools in a single collaboration hub.
Discovery Health Partners, a Division of LaunchPoint, Appoints Chief Information Officer
Discovery Health Partners, the payment integrity division of LaunchPoint, today announced it has appointed Moe Alkhafaji as Chief Information Officer . Alkhafaji joins Discovery from HealthEngine, where in the role of CTO he applied his big data and machine learning expertise to rearchitect and transform its healthcare pricing and quality information portal technology.
Back-office SaaS to generate huge revenues for Indian firms: SirionLabs
New Delhi, Feb 20 – While India lost its chance to generate huge revenues from front-office Software-As-A-Service in the Cloud, a golden opportunity lies for the domestic companies in back-office SaaS to gain an early foothold, a top executive from SirionLabs, a US-based leading provider of enterprise SaaS product, has emphasised. Front-office SaaS has been there for almost 15 years.
Verizon and Ahold USA complete digital transformation of iconic retail brands
With consumers increasingly relying on smartphones and public Wi-Fi when shopping, retailers are recognizing the imperative to offer strong and reliable networks for delivering the digitally rich in-store experience that is now an expectation. , chief information officer for Ahold USA.