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Information Builders has moved to combine its business intelligence and analytics offering with Esri’s mapping technology in an effort to help customers gain insights into geographic data. Esri’s cloud-based ArcGIS Online mapping platform will be embedded into Information Builders’ WebFOCUS analytics platform for users to see how environmental factors could affect business functions and predict […] More
Harris Corp. will supply tactical radios and field support services to an unidentified Asian country under a $49 million order. The country procures the Falcon III RF-7800H manpack and RF-7850M handheld radios for the security forces’ voice and data communications, Harris said Tuesday. Brendan O’Connell, president of international business at Harris RF Communications, said the […] More
Jacobs Engineering Group will provide the the U.K.’s nuclear regulation office with technical support for safety and operations of current and future nuclear facilities under a five-year framework agreement. The company will support ONR’s civil engineering, internal and external hazards, radioactive waste and decommissioning programs, Jacobs said Tuesday. ONR was established in 2011 to oversee the U.K.’s nuclear regulations. More
Christopher Dziekan, formerly vice president of product strategy for business analytics at IBM, has joined Pentaho as chief product officer and will lead that company’s blended big data discovery and advanced analytics initiatives. “We are excited to have Chris join Pentaho to drive our product strategy and continue to differentiate Pentaho’s big data and embedded analytics […] More
Stephen Boyle, former vice president of Oracle‘s strategic partnerships with independent software vendors and original equipment manufacturers, has been appointed VP for enterprise partners at Microsoft, CRN reported Monday. Kevin McLaughlin writes Boyle first joined Oracle in 1997 as a sales manager for the company’s alliances with U.K. ISVs and became VP for software and hardware vendor […] More
Chief information officers and senior information technology executives continue to transition organizational data to cloud environments amid a growing security threat landscape, says Colin Lacey, vice president of data center and cloud transformation solutions and services at Unisys. “Security concerns are not stopping CIOs from making use of the cloud to reduce costs and increase their […] More
TeleCommunication Systems has introduced an 8-gigabit flash memory device for data storage in military, aerospace and medical platforms that operate in harsh environments. The hardware is built with single-level NAND flash architecture as well as radiation shielding technology, TCS said Tuesday. Mike Bristol, president of TCS’ government solutions group, said the company developed the product […] More
Learning how to manage different sets of healthcare data to get insights may be more realistic than trying to get everyone to agree on one interoperable format, Dean Allemang writes in a March 24 piece on the Yarc Data blog. Allemang believes survival tools are more appropriate given the current technical, political and business challenges that could impact medical […] More
A General Dynamics division has been awarded a $74.7 million contract to provide egress survivability kits for mine resistant and ambush protected vehicles used by the U.S. Marine Corps. General Dynamics Land Systems – Force Protection will manufacture 916 kits for the USMC to upgrade front and rear doors, exhaust system and rear steps on […] More
Moffitt Cancer Center subsidiary M2Gen has joined Deloitte’s analytics consortium to help provide medicine studies and services to life science organizations and cancer centers. M2Gen intends to contribute to the ConvergeHEALTH consortium’s works of identifying biomarkers, matching gene-based clinical trial and creating real-world evidence, Deloitte said Tuesday. Nitin Mittal, principal at Deloitte and executive vice […] More
ThreeWire Systems has published a white paper detailing the different options and insights provided by its information technology asset management offering. The ITAM offering brings together procurement, finance and IT so that a business can better purchase, distribute and deploy its hardware and software assets. The tool builds a complete inventory of all hardware and […] More
Oracle has deployed an enterprise performance management tool at the University of Virginia as the academic institution looks to migrate its financial functions into a new technology platform. The public research university selected Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management, which has tools designed to provide transparency and insights into budget, acquisition, cost and profitability data, […] More
