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Dr. John Halamka, the CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has joined the board of directors at health care IT security firm Imprivata.

Cisco has not only had a strong positive reaction to its earnings results this week, but its renewed focus in its core networking business, increasingly friendly shareholder actions via raising its dividend, and stability in its gross margin over the past year have all helped to reverse the prior "ABC" networking investment trend of "Anything But ... (more)

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Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com Chief Executive Larry Page on Wednesday made a surprise appearance at the Internet company's ... (more)

Norm Fjeldheim, CIO of Qualcomm , said during a keynote that he's found NetSuite to be a better fit for Qualcomm's needs than Oracle .

Students today expect immediate, personal, easy access to information they need when they need it-and on their mobile devices.

News Summary SaskTel implemented a comprehensive suite of Oracle solutions to support an enhanced cross-channel customer experience and improve service offer design and order delivery for its digital TV, Internet, phone and next-generation service offerings.

NCI is leader in providing Software and IT Solutions to government agencies. NCI is looking to hire IT and Software Engineers and Professionals for work in the Sierra Vista area.

IBM is a remarkable value creator and enjoys a sustainable competitive advantage in enterprise software, services, and hardware.

Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including SAP AG software and Oracle Corporation's Siebel , PeopleSoft , JD Edwards , E-Business Suite , Oracle Database and Hyperion software, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Anderson Aquino as country manager, Brazil.

The project and portfolio management software market posted steady growth gains worldwide as Oracle and Microsoft captured the top two vendor slots.

Today the Software & Information Industry Association , the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, awarded Eloqua the top honor in the "Best Marketing Automation Solution" category.

During 2012 the worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning market experienced sluggish growth of just 2.2%, yet Software-as-a-Service , financial management and Human Capital Management applications showed potential for breakout growth.

"We are looking in the windshield at where we need to take SAP, not so much debating why we are or aren't better than Oracle," said McDermott.

In its report, "Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide 2012," leading information technology research and advisory company Gartner, Inc.

Eskew comes to Narus from Oracle, where he served as vice president of worldwide sales for the virtual desktop infrastructure global business unit.

As cloud computing surges into the mainstream of business-technology strategies and deployments, plenty of questions are still swirling around regarding security, time to value, public versus private, lock-in, cost, and more.

Oracle will reduce its current 80.3 per cent ownership stake in OFSS, a provider of IT products to the financial services industry globally, to 75 per cent in order to meet regulatory requirements adopted in India in June 2010, the company said in a statement.

Ellie Mae , a leading provider of enterprise level, on-demand automated solutions for the residential mortgage industry, today announced that Vivian Wong has joined the Company as senior vice president of software development.

Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is known for buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of properties worldwide.