Intel Security announced continued growth and product integrations across its extensive partner ecosystem, the Intel Security Innovation Alliance. Check Point, Huawei and other industry-leading companies have joined the Intel Security Innovation Alliance to provide a truly integrated, connected security ecosystem that maximises the investment customers are making in their cybersecurity infrastructure. One year ago, at […]

Pyramid Analytics, a provider of enterprise business intelligence software, announced that for the second year in a row the company is an overall leader in customer experience and vendor credibility in Dresner Advisory Services’ flagship market report, the 2016 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study. In these two categories, the company garnered scores that […]

Tata Communications announced the appointment of James Parker as President of Global Sales. Parker is responsible for leading the company’s global sales organisation across all customer segments. Parker has an impressive track record in driving business transformation within the software and telecommunications industries across both developed and emerging markets. His leadership career has spanned sales, […]

Pyramid Analytics, the next-generation business analytics platform for the enterprise, announced new functionality in BI Office that delivers streamlined and governed access to all data sources in the SAP system, including SAP HANA and SAP BW. Using an SAP-certified connector, customers can unify their SAP data with other critical enterprise data sources within BI Office, […]

Value added distributor StarLink announced that as part of its planned investments to expand across the rest of EMEA, it has appointed Avinash Advani as Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances and International Markets. In his new role, Advani will focus on expanding all markets outside the Middle East, including Europe, US, Africa and Turkey, from […]

The concept of bring your own device BYOD continues to be a growing trend for businesses around the world and the Middle East is certainly not lagging behind. The region is notably an early adopter of the most innovative technology trends with BYOD being no exception. BYOD, which essentially means that employees bring their own […]

Businesses operating in developed markets risk falling behind businesses in emerging markets that are placing greater importance on leveraging technology to fuel growth. Global research from Epicor Software found that 54% of emerging market business executives cited technology leadership as a significant growth factor, compared to just 36% of those in developed countries. The research, […]

The rapid growth in smartphone usage is set to increase with the advent of electronic ticketing for sporting and entertainment events. Mobile ticketing is nothing new, especially in the transport industry where users are choosing to travel with electronic tickets and shunning traditional paper tickets. This change is set to be adopted by the sporting […]

Security has long been the principal fear that weighs on cloud investments. While perceptions are improving, Intel Security’s recent State of Cloud Adoption study found that data breaches remain the biggest concern of companies deploying Software as a service, Infrastructure as a service, and even private cloud models. A 2015 survey by Crowd Research Partners […]

We live in a hyper-connected world. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, you will be able to witness people and organisations interacting with each other through the internet via a multitude of devices, applications and services. The hyper-connected reality of today has been driven forward by many elements but, in recent years, it has been […]