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4 New IT Outsourcing Pricing Models Gain Popularity

In the traditional IT outsourcing deal, the vendor provides a service —managing servers, developing applications, monitoring networks —and the customer pays for it, whether at a fixed price, on a time-and-materials basis or a cost-plus model. But as customers have grown to expect more value from their IT service providers and vendors have become eager [...]

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The Next Stop in Outsourcing: Accountability

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. With the nation’s focus on the need to create jobs, the habit of outsourcers to cite the traditional value of cheap labor will no longer be of adequate value for [...]

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Applied Systems to Exhibit at Digital Factory Tradeshow in Hannover

On April 23-27 Applied Systems Ltd. will be present at the foremost technology event Hannover Messe 2012. While exhibiting at Digital Factory tradeshow, the management will promote the company’s know-how and experience in developing cutting-edge custom software for industrial automation solutions. Since 1997 Applied Systems has been engaged in international projects of customers from Germany, [...]

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Microsoft to Bring More Technology to Russian Academics

Microsoft and the Russian Academy of Sciences inked a long-term collaboration memorandum of understanding last week, pooling their efforts to develop the use of advanced IT tools in the academy’s research activities as well as joint education programs in Russia. In particular, Microsoft will assist the academy in upgrading its IT infrastructure, including a prospective [...]

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Bulgarian Teachers Got Their First Ever Interactive Presentations Creation Training

Multimedia knowledge publisher Sirma Media has for the first time in Bulgaria presented interactive console eBeam ENGAGE and its usage in a combination with online presentation platform PREZI. The event took place on March 24 and 25, 2012, in front of maths teachers, who represent the Mathematicians’ Union from the municipalities of Kyustendil and Blagoevgrad. [...]

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Cloud Computing: S&T and Microsoft Connect 6,000 Users

Microsoft Slovenia and S&T Slovenia contracted a EUR 3.5 million project with Mercator, one of the largest and leading store chains in South-Eastern Europe. It is even the largest transition to Microsoft cloud computing in CEE. Largest transition to public cloud in CEE Office 365 for more than 6,000 Mercator employees Reducing IT expenses Microsoft [...]

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Altoros Invited Dave Nielsen to Hold the First CloudCamp in Eastern Europe

On April 7, 2012, Dave Nielsen, a co-founder of CloudCamp movement who assisted in organizing more than 200 “unconferences” around the world, came to Minsk (Belarus) and brought cloud movement to Eastern Europe. Although, the so-called unconferences are very popular in the USA and Western Europe, cloud advocates from Eastern region didn’t have a chance [...]

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Netgen Has a Representative in the eZ Product Innovation Board

eZ Systems called our own Ivo Lukač to represent Netgen & eZ Community in the new eZ Product Innovation Board, announced at the eZ Partner Conference in Lisbon beginning of the year. Other Board members are various eZ Ecosystem stakeholders: partners, clients, employees, etc. All in all roughly 20 people will be involved in next [...]

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IBA Expands Opportunities of BSU Students and Teachers

In April 2012, the training courses in IBM Cognos TM1 and IBM SPSS STATISTICS for BSU students and teachers started in the joint IBA-BSU IT Competence Center. Experts of the IBA Division of Business Applications conduct trainings twice a week. Third- and fourth-year students of the Faculties of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Mechanics and [...]

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Revenue of Baltic Data Center in 2011 Increased due to Service Export

In 2011 revenue of Baltic Data Center, a leader in data centre and information systems management in the Baltic States, was 54.9 million litas, an increased by more than 10 per cent over the revenue of LTL 49,8 million in 2010. The growth of the company belonging to TEO LT, AB Group was resulted by [...]

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