Category: News

Wunderman acquires Bridge Worldwide

Wunderman has acquired Bridge Worldwide, which is a interactive relationship marketing agency based in Cincinnati. Bridge Worldwide provides its services to CPG and healthcare companies. In the acquisition process, Bridge Worldwide was represented by AdMedia Partners. AdMedia Partners is an investment bank based in New York and its forte is M&A advisory services to media […]

Data theft at the MVCI

The Marriott Vacation Club International (MVCI), which is the time-share division of hotel chain Marriott International, has stated that it cannot locate backup tapes that contained personal information of more than 200,000 staff, timeshare owners and customers. Marriott has stated that the information includes credit card details and social security numbers as well. The company […]

CDC Software aims for Onyx

CDC Software, which acquired CRM software vendor Pivotal two years ago, is now interested in Onyx Software Corp. CDC, which is based in Hong Kong, intends to offer up to $ 50 million to acquire a majority of the common stock of Onyx. computerpartner.nl says: Onyx, based in Bellevue, Washington, answered back that it received […]

ProClarity 6.1

ProClarity Corporation has launched ProClarity 6.1 which is the latest version of ProClarity(R) Analytics 6. The application enables users to make full use of the enhanced BI capabilities of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005. These capabilities include Analysis-, Reporting-, and Notification-services. The tool enables organizations to analyze data in a variety of ways; thereby enabling […]

Unilever outsources to IBM

Unilever will be outsourcing a major portion of its financial transactional services in more than 20 countries in Europe to IBM. The move is a part of the One Unilever program that intends to make the organization more competitive by streamlining the processes. Financial services offered by IBM will include Purchase to Pay, General Accounting […]

Increase in mobile workforce strains IT resources

According to research by the Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum and Avaya, the increase in the number of remote and mobile employees is making it difficult of IT departments to support them. This is leading to problems related to business continuity and individual performance. Industry analysts at IDC state that the number of mobile workers […]