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Continue readingTotalSoft, the regional software provider and member of Global Finance, became an associate member of VÖL – Verband Österreichischer Leasing-Gesellschaften, the Association of Austrian Leasing Companies. TotalSoft continues to strengthen its operations in Europe and has recently established a new subsidiary in Vienna to serve the DACH region, after having also joined Leaseurope, the European [...]
Continue readingChief information officers spearheading IT outsourcing deals with global vendors have been urged to invest up to ten percent of those contract values to keep project outcomes – and their careers – on track. Industry experts speaking to iTnews in advance of the CIO Strategy Summit this month say CIOs should not overlook the value [...]
Continue readingDe Novo, the company which provides professional IT-services, the leading DPC and Cloud Center operator in Ukraine, announces the beginning of providing DPC engineering infrastructure services to IBM within the framework of its contract for the maintenance of Ukrsotsbank PJSC, UniCredit Bank ™ information systems. According to the UniCredit group strategy, the functions of information [...]
Continue readingInsurance fraud detection According to the information available, almost every seventh submitted Insurance claim is fraudulent. This not only includes reports of insurance claims that never happened, but also cases in which indicated sums of loss were much higher than in reality. Insurance fraud causes huge losses in the millions of euros per year for [...]
Continue readingSmaller outsourcing providers are increasingly able to have a seat at the global IT outsourcing deal negotiation table, alongside big-ticket players like IBM, Accenture and Capgemini – thanks to customers now breaking up large deals into smaller components. With the global economy slowing and cost pressures rising, IT customers do not want to put all [...]
Continue readingThe volume of software production of Hi-Tech Park resident-companies in Jan-June 2012 amounted to 1, 2 billion BYR. The growth rate amounted 321% compared to the same period of the last year, or 144% with due account of the deflator. The export of software and IT-services in the first six months of 2012 amounted to [...]
Continue readingNew software house – Qualium Systems GmbH & Co KG has announced it’s official opening. Company headquartered in Bonn, Germany has been founded as a result of collaboration of Deutsche eCommerce GmbH and the Ukrainian Softwarehouse Qualium Systems Ltd. Key elements of the company’s proposition include the development of mobile apps, social media applications, web-, [...]
Continue readingWhen a company starts preparing to offshore elements of their business, concerns often surface about how well-protected its intellectual property, and those of its suppliers, will be. While the red flag is sometimes raised over Central Europe, are worries about the security of IP in the region really justified? Central Europe has a lot going [...]
Continue readingIssued by the 9th APEC Telecommunications and Information Ministerial Meeting APEC Ministers today called for increased cooperation between members and other key stakeholders to promote widespread access and secure use of information and communications technology (ICT) to further drive economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region. A roadmap for achieving this was articulated in the St.Petersburg [...]
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