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John George serves as senior vice president and chief information officer at ICF International, which he joined in 2012 from a prior role at Vangent as chief information and innovation officer. At Vangent, he led the implementation of technology the company used for customer-facing and internal systems. His private sector career includes technical and management […] More
Stephen Chipman, who will be succeeded by Mike McGuire as CEO of Grant Thornton in 2015, will take the role of senior vice chair at the global consulting and professional services firm on Jan. 1, 2015. The firm’s revenue has grown 22 percent over the last three fiscal years and launched business groups in China, India and […] More
Cisco and Viscosity North America have teamed up to discuss how to move data and applications into Cisco’s unified computing system platform during a round table discussion on Oct. 22. The team consists of Oracle ACE directors Charles Kim and Nitin Vengurlekar and Cisco’s Danny Dunn, who will investigate Viscosity’s approach for zero risk and zero downtime Oracle migrations, Viscosity […] More
Oracle has introduced three software-as-a-service platforms for U.S. federal agencies to manage human resources, sales, accounting and other enterprise functions in the cloud. The Oracle Government Cloud suite is designed to help agencies meet the U.S. government’s “First Cloud” policy and now includes Human Capital Management Cloud, Sales Cloud and Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud products, […] More
An IDC report says the integrated platforms and infrastructure industry generated $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of 2014, a 33.8 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. IDC said Thursday storage capacity shipped by integrated system vendors worlwide grew 63.4 percent to more than 833 petabytes during this year’s Q2 compared with the […] More
A Forrester Consulting study says that three organizations have achieved a lower cost of technology ownership from implementing an Oracle database software in conjunction with a Verizon cloud platform. George Koroneos, an online media manager at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, wrote Thursday the Verizon-commissioned research sought to analyze how subscription-based licensing of Oracle Database on Verizon Cloud […] More
Oracle Corp. has released a new survey that indicates information technology executives want to further their mobile application and device development and spending over the next few years. CIO Strategic Marketing Services and Triangle Publishing Services performed the survey on 414 IT management executives worldwide from chief information officers to senior IT professionals, Oracle said […] More
Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the healthcare analytics market to achieve a 25 percent compound annual growth rate through 2019, HealthITAnalytics reported Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick writes regulatory mandates, ongoing health information technology adoption, predictive analytics and clinical support requirements of healthcare organizations will drive the market. The report also lists […] More
Stephan Thoma, formerly a global director of learning and development at Google, has joined European Leaders to lead its talent development division. European Leaders also opened a Berlin, Germany-based Central European regional office led by Martin Buhl, a former Oracle executive, European Leaders said Thursday. “The European tech space has never been more vibrant. But […] More
Marty Beard, formerly chairman and CEO of LiveOps Inc., has joined BlackBerry Ltd. as chief operating officer. Beard will oversee BlackBerry’s marketing, BlackBerry 10 application development efforts, customer care and quality operations, BlackBerry said Monday. He will also be responsible for establishing best practices and processes. “Marty brings extensive experience in operations, marketing and serving […] More
As executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International, Deb Dunie oversees work to develop and advance the company’s technology infrastructurer. Prior to CACI, she served as director of plans and analysis within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and was responsible for reviewing activities and programs related to U.S. national […] More
Iridium Communications has implemented the billing and revenue management offering from Oracle‘s communications arm to support the expansion of Iridium’s service portfolio for after the launch of the Iridium NEXT constellation. The companies said Thursday Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management is expected to standardize and streamline Iridium’s billing, invoicing and revenue life-cycle management processes. “Our legacy billing systems had grown […] More
