Sage is serious about the future
The Sage Summit has kicked off in Chicago with the tagline Sage is Serious. Mike Ditka, the Chicago Bears Championship winning player and coach opened the event by calling the Sage...
Tableau Online 9.0 accelerates analytics
Tableau has announced the immediate availability of its Tableau Online 9.0 Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics service.
This release comes a month after Tableau released its core...
Microsoft sues over user privacy
Microsoft is suing the US government over the issue of user privacy. News of the lawsuit was provided in a blog late yesterday by Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft....
Bluemix delivers streaming analytics
IBM has announces a raft of new services that are being delivered in its Bluemix Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution including IBM Streaming Analytics and data warehousing solutions.
IBM's announcement comes...
ICAEW accredits BlackLine software
BlackLine has joined NetSuite, Sage and Capita as having its solution accredited by the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales (ICAEW). It is the only software currently listed under Finance Controls...
Equinix seeks Bit-isle in Japan
Equinix, Inc has an established business in Japan but it is seeking to become the fourth largest operator there in a deal worth US$280 million as it bids for Tokyo based...
Containers speeding release cycles
A survey released by software tools vendor Shippable has concluded that the use of containers is speeding up release cycles. For container supporters this is good news as almost three-quarters of...
ECJ rules Safe Harbour agreement invalid
The European Court of Justice has just published its view that the Safe Harbour agreement with the US for the transfer of personal data between the EU and the US is...
AWS reveals all…but what the heck is cloud anyway?
Last week Amazon published financials for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business for the first time. These showed that the old man of public cloud computing is a $5bn business with...
IBM and ARM do IoT deal
IBM and ARM have announced a deal to extend the IBM Internet of Things (IoT) platform called the IBM IoT Foundation.
In October 2014, ARM launched its IoT platform called mbed. It...