Industry News
Overload, laws are blocks to retail big data
January 24, 2014A new survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit commissioned by Indian IT giant Wipro Ltd finds that nearly all respondents’ businesses have seen a positive economic return
Historic French VAR fails
January 24, 2014A 37 year old French VAR working with Microsoft, VMware, NetApp, Citrix and others has been placed into liquidation.The failure of Uhl Bonaventure Informatique (UBI) in eastern France seems to have been a classic case of cashflow as many customers have delayed paying their bills.
Lenovo in server, storage channel push
January 24, 2014Lenovo's new programme for channels wants to drive server and storage sales.
Adaptive reveals global expansion
January 24, 2014Adaptive Planning, specialist in cloud-based business analytics solutions, announced during its recent Worldwide Partner Summit a global expansion and rising revenue driven by its channel partners.
Imtech sells back stake in Turkish firm
January 24, 2014Imtech has concluded a review in Turkey and announced it plans to sell back its 80% shareholding in a Turkey-based engineering company AE Arma-Elektropanç as it its profile is no longer in line with Imtech’s market strategy, it says.
SAP in transition
January 21, 2014SAP's Q4 and full year showed a changing business. The EMEA region saw high single-digit growth with non-IFRS software and cloud subscription revenue increasing 9% at constant currencies.
Canadian firm buys Swedish UC specialist
January 21, 2014Aastra Technologies’ European subsidiary has announced it has bought a Swedish cloud unified communication specialist Telepo.
Europe-based firm teams up with Indian content specialist
January 21, 2014European specialist in automated contract management Time2Clever has announced a strategic partnership with Indian Khemeia Technologies, a specialist in content transformation solutions.
Channels race to adjust to new digital market
January 21, 2014Analysts expect the European software and IT services market around digital transformation to grow by 11.2% per annum within the next three years.
Workday names new EMEA head
January 21, 2014Workday, human resources and finance cloud applications specialit, has appointed Chano Fernandez as its new EMEA President.
