

Unicorn Systems and Alstom Grid combined strengths of their products to support ENTSO-E, the association of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, in performing its energy policy goals. The target system (Network Modeling Database – NMD) was recently launched to improve TSOs’ long term coordinated and standardized planning of the European transmission [...]
Continue readingValentin Makarov, head of software industry trade group RUSSOFT, declared at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June that Russian software exports may reach $5 billion 2012 – up from $4 billion in 2011 and $3.1 billion in 2010. A RUSSOFT report, published early in 2010, said that in 2009, exports of IT services [...]
Continue readingIBM and five leading Russian innovation companies — the Skolkovo Foundation, Rusnano, Rostelecom, Russian Venture Company and ITFY — signed a collaboration agreement earlier this month to help spur a new wave of innovation in Russian technology. Key to the initiative is the creation of a new Electronics Technology Center (ETC) to be housed at [...]
Continue readingThe decision of the European Court may bring changes in copyright law, and in software consumer habits across the Member States – says in his interview about software remarketing to Computerworld Sándor Zsoldos, the Managing Director of IPR. The European Court declared, that even in the case of downloaded products – meaning products without installation [...]
Continue readingEPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE:EPAM), a global software engineering and IT Outsourcing (ITO) provider with development centers across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), today announced it has been ranked #37 on The 2012 Global Outsourcing 100® list. This ranking is held annually by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP) to reveal the world’s best outsourcing [...]
Continue readingWithin strategic cooperation of I.T. Co. and the Research and Educational Center of Information Management Technologies created on the basis of the Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE) in 2010, they developed a new search application ─ the system of experts searching. The system enables to quickly contact direct carriers of necessary knowledge and to [...]
Continue readingEarly stakeholder participation is critical to the success of a Health Insurance Exchange (HIX), advised Pradeep Goel, CEO of EngagePoint (formerly Consumer Health Technologies), during a panel discussion at the 2012 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit, held recently in Dulles, Washington. The panel, titled “Comparing Health Benefits Exchange Models: Governance, Implementation and Data Considerations,” also [...]
Continue readingLuxoft, a member of the IBS Group and a global provider of advanced application and product development services, today announced that it has been included in the “Leaders” category of the 100 Global Outsourcing Providers list, compiled by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®). Additionally, the company has been included in the following sub-lists: Best [...]
Continue readingAs part of our OutsourceXplores series, Transforming Business Through Technology in association with Océ Business Services, this webinar seeks to explore the ways in which the application of technology to an organisation’s document and data management processes can not only achieve radical efficiencies and cost savings but can have a genuinely transformative impact upon the [...]
Continue readingBefore embarking upon an IT outsourcing transaction, CIOs should recognize an immutable principle – there is a high probability that their IT outsourcing contractual arrangements will not survive the initial term and extension periods. Scores of articles and studies have highlighted the statistics around unsuccessful IT outsourcing deals – many establishing the failure rate at [...]
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