Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 10:14 pm

Cloud computing: SaaS used to augment business intelligence

Stamford (ip-192.com): Nearly one third of organizations uses or plans to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions. According to a survey of 1,364 IT managers and business users of BI platforms in the fourth quarter of 2011, only 17 percent of organizations have replaced or plan to [...]

Comcast: New $7 equipment fee for business Internet customers

Philadelphia (ip-192.com): Staying connected has just become more expensive – at least for Comcast Business Class Internet customers. The largest cable operator in the U.S. has quietly added an equipment fee to its high-speed Business Class Internet service. The additional $7 fee (plus taxes) was implemented in December 2011 and will appear on new invoices [...]

North America, Europe: MDM software sales set to grow

Stamford (ip-192.com): Worldwide master data management (MDM) software revenue will reach $1.9 billion in 2012, a 21 percent increase from 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. The software is used in organizations to ensure that only one version of the same master data is used in different parts of its operations. The market is forecast to [...]

Europe: Maritime cybersecurity awareness low

Heraklion (ip-192.com): Maritime cyber security awareness is currently low to non-existent, a report published by the European Network and Information Security Agency (enisa) concludes. Since 90 percent of the EU’s external trade and more than 40 percent of the internal trade take place via maritime routes, securing the maritime sector’s critical infrastructure and the movement [...]