Workday to buy employee engagement firm Peakon
Workday has taken the plunge and is buying an employee engagement company. It has entered into a $700 million all-cash transaction to acquire Peakon ApS. Peakon was founded in 2014 in...
Digital transformation spend will continue in 2021 says report
Software AG has published results from its 'Situation Report' global survey of IT Leaders and their digital transformation investment strategies. The company looked at a few data points gathered through our...
Expensify reveals how business expense changed in 2020
Expensify has published the Annual Spend Trends Report. It looks at how businesses expense patterns evolved during 2020. The pandemic massively impacted the report as one might expected. The report reflects...
IBM i marketplace continues to expand
HelpSystems has published its seventh annual IBM i Marketplace Survey. It shows that use of the IBM i platform has surged during the pandemic. What makes this growth more interesting, is that most...
Epicor gets the full Monti
Epicor has lost little time finding a new CFO after the departure of David Mehok to Q2 in November. The company has appointed Samuel Monti as its new Chief Financial Officer....
News from week beginning 18th January 2021
Impact of the Administration Transition, 2020-2021 from @Deltek takes a look on the impact the Biden administration may have on #Federal #Consulting firms
IFS lures heavy hitter from Microsoft
IFS has appointed Ben Vollmer as Senior Vice President of Product Management. The appointment was revealed in a LinkedIn post by Darren Roos, CEO, IFS. Roos commented: “I’m immensely pleased to welcome...
EUR272.5m in GDPR fines imposed by European regulators
EUR272.5 million of fines have been imposed for a wide range of infringements of EU’s data protection (GDPR) laws. This is the equivalent of about US$332.4m or £245.3m. This is the...
Can your CIO keep up with digital transformation?
The latest Global CIO report (registration required) from Dynatrace has highlighted the challenges of digital transformation. It discovered that as the speed of digital transformation has increased, most CIOs are struggling...
Citrix buys Wrike – a brilliant strategic move or mad gamble?
Citrix has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wrike for $2.25 billion in cash. This is 16x the $140 million unaudited SaaS ARR that Wrike ended 2020 with. With Wrike...