IBM Wraps Up Algorithmics Acquisition Growing Business Analytics Portfolio

IBM has closed its acquisition of Algorithmics, a firm providing software and services for improved business insights at banks and investment and insurance organizations to assess risk and address regulatory challenges.

IBM said the acquisition will expand the company’s business analytics capabilities in the area of financial risk. IBM recently acquired OpenPages and the combined acquisitions add to IBM’s…

SAP Renews Platform with SAP HANA Road Map

SAP AG is renewing its platform with SAP HANA led-architecture road map. In accord with this announcement, Gartner Inc. published a new report, “SAP Throws Down the Next Generation Architecture Gauntlet with HANA.”

The report indicated that it provides CIOs, CTOs, IT planners, enterprise technology architects, application managers and project leaders with an overview of the…

NJVC Named a Winner in the Government Information Security Leadership Awards; President Jody Tedesco Comments

NJVC recently announced its Cyber Security Dashboard development team was named the winner in the Government Information Security Leadership Awards Team Award category. The team was honored for the creation and deployment of the Cyber Dashboard.

The Dashboard visualizes, analyzes and generates reports from the aggregated and correlated data feeds of…

McAfee and FOCUS 11 Keeping Cyber Threats at Bay

All the buzz is about McAfee and its FOCUS 11, which kicked off earlier this week in Las Vegas. The company reported a record attendance of security professionals came together to discuss what’s to come next in the security realm. With multiple announcements regarding new products, partnerships and solutions, its no wonder why McAfee’s name…

Microsoft’s OmniTouch Is ‘Touch Screen’ for Any Surface

Microsoft has developed a wearable system that allows projection screens on everyday surfaces, including the palm of your hand, named OmniTouch, according to a CNET report.

The technology combines a laser-based pico projector and depth-sensing camera, the latter not unlike Microsoft’s Kinect camera for the Xbox 360, says CNET. But it is modified to work at short range.

This technology has…

Cisco to Acquire Firm BNI Video, Boost Videoscape TV Platform

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately-held BNI Video, a Boxborough, Mass.-based firm that supplies service providers with two major video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network analytic capabilities.

Cisco said the acquisition will advance the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, which it said allows service providers to deliver compelling video experiences to…

Accenture and Avanade Named to 2011 President’s Club for Microsoft Dymanics CRM

Accenture and Avanade have been named to the 2011’s President’s Club for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The companies were jointly recognized as being in the top five percent of partners worldwide. The pair received the honor for its performance as a Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner and its commitment to customers. 

The CRM market is quickly accelerating due…

Avaya Acquires Aurix to Expand into Contact Center Market

Avaya has recently acquired Aurix as part of an effort to help enhance the availability and accessability of speech recognition and analytics solutions in the contact center market.

Aurix will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Avaya and will be incorporated into Avaya’s Aura and other solutions in Avaya’s customer contact and unified communications portfolios.

“Aurix’s technology will enable Avaya’s…

VMware Helps SAP Virtualize its Global IT Infrastructure

In selecting a platform for IT modernization and reorganization, SAP has chosen VMware’s cloud infrastructure and management platform to support business demand.

SAP’s IT group already uses VMware solutions as an underlying virtualization technology and infrastructure as a service architecture, which will allow SAP’s internal customers to be more responsive and efficient at a controlled cost, VMware said.

“VMware technology not only…

SAP’s Cloud Solutions Gain Speed with Real-Time Analytics Solution

SAP AG has a new SAP HANA-powered solution to offer. Announced at the India hosted SAP TechEd 2011, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence OnDemand is a solution aimed to let businesses quickly and cost-effectively perform real-time analysis of any data, including from on-demand solutions. 

Ad hoc and detailed analyses, that are typically challenging, are made much easier with BusinessOjects BI OnDemand according to…