Morgan Hill have announced a series of events around cloud computing and IT costs starting in London at the City Club 19 Old Broad St London EC2N 1DS on the 14th of September 2010.
The City Club event is aimed at senior executives from IT, finance and general management who want to gain a clear picture [...]
The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has announced its selection of FinancialForce.com a cloud based accounting service to use to automate some of its departmental financial processes.
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TMG was an early adopter of Google apps over MS Office and Google’s mail services over Exchange, partly a decision based on [...]
“One of the most interesting aspects of last week’s unexpected and
momentous executive reshuffle at SAP was the promotion of CTO Vishal
Sikka to join the company’s powerful Executive Board. Coupled with the
promotion of product development chief Jim Hagemann Snabe to the role
of co-CEO alongside sales chief Bill McDermott, it signals an
increased emphasis (some would say long-overdue) [...]
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SAP has announced that its recently appointed CEO Mr Apotheker is to step down.
This move has been described as a response to all sorts of ailments within the company. Issues written about in the press include: delays in launching software, a failure to grasp the nettle with software as a service, job cuts, high customer [...]
Version 3.2 of OpenOffice.org, the free and open-source rival to
Microsoft Office, has just been launched. The new version features
improved startup time, improved importing and support for
password-protected and Microsoft Office 2007 files and a number of
enhancements to the spreadsheet application, Calc.
OpenOffice.org is a free download for Windows, Mac and Linux.
The full feature list is available [...]