The European IT & Software Excellence Awards for 2015 have been announced, and the first entries logged. The Awards will take place in London on 25 March 2015. Now in their seventh year, the European IT & Software Excellence Awards have been designed to recognise and reward excellence in European software development and IT and Telecoms solutions provision.
Cognizant, the US-listed Indian IT business saw its Q2 revenue of $2.52bn up 16.5% from the year-ago period and up 3.9% sequentially. Business in Europe rose 20% yr/yr, but it is warning of longer sales cycles.
US-based predictive analytics applications specialist RapidMiner has announced its move into the Adriatic market through its partnership with CRMT, a Slovenia-based consultancy in corporate performance management, business intelligence and data integration.
EMC has appointed Russell Poole as its new Head of Channel for the UK and Ireland.
The Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report examines the "weak links" in organisations that contribute to the increasingly dynamic threat landscape.
US-listed Central and Eastern European IT services firm EPAM Systems delivered Q2 revenues of $174.7m, up 31.2% yr/yr, 9% sequentially. The company now employs over 10,000 people.
IT specialist Insight has named Alexander Kaatz as VP Sales & Marketing EMEA. He joins from Systematic Inventive Thinking.
Card fraud has reached in new high in Europe, with France and Greece leading the list, Russia being the fastest growing. FICO, a predictive analytics and decision management software maker has a new analysis of card fraud in Europe showing that card fraud losses in 2013.
Tech Mahindra shares fell 5.5% as the Indian giant reported lower-than-expected margins in the June quarter.
Exclusive Networks has bought Australian distributor WhiteGold Solutions, an independent value added distributor of IT security, networking, converged infrastructure and datacentre solutions based in Sydney.