SAP focused on business value not features, Snabe tells Sapphire Now delegates…

SAP believes now is the time for a breakthrough in technology, but is committed to delivering business value, not just technology, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe told attendees of the Sapphire Now customer and partner conference in Madrid.
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What does the future hold for Microsoft’s business model?…

With the technology industry shifting away from traditional software licensing, what is the future for Microsoft as tech top dog?
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Security Zone: Managing false positives in security systems…

Disabling signatures and policies that are perceived to generate false positives could severely hamper a security technology's ability to correlate events that may lead to the detection and mitigation of a real security breach. GlaxoSmithKline's Marty Seery, CISSP, considers the alternatives.
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Department of Health opens up data in drive to localise IT procurement…

The Department of Health has outlined a series of initiatives to support trusts in procuring IT at a local level.
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UK government is rewriting the outsourcing rule book…

Changes in the way the government buys IT services were reflected in the latest figures from TPI, which revealed that the number of outsourcing contracts signed by the UK public sector in the first half of this year was 70% higher than the same period last year, whereas the total value of these contracts was 47% less.
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Case study: Smiths turns to cloud to boost workforce talent…

Smiths Group, the £5bn engineering conglomerate, is aiming to raise the skill levels of its workforce and save millions of pounds a year with a cloud-based HR service.
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Case study: Smiths turns to cloud to boost workforce talent…

Smiths Group, the £5bn engineering conglomerate, is aiming to raise the skill levels of its workforce and cut millions of pounds a year from its human resources (HR) costs by rolling out a cloud-based HR service.
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Search Twitter on Mozilla Firefox 8…

The latest version of Mozilla Firefox 8, with its Twitter search feature, is now available for download, ahead of the browser's official launch later today.
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Google+ opens for business with public pages feature…

Google+ has opened a business "pages" feature on its social network, and has already attracted some big brands.
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HP considers fate of its WebOS business…

HP is in the process of deciding whether to ditch its WebOS business, which the company has previously earmarked for closure.
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