Daily Archives: 29 April, 2011
HCL Technologies Signs Master Global Alliance Agreement with JDA Software
HCL to Provide Supply Chain Software Services to JDA’s Enterprise Customers
Sunnyvale, USA/Noida, India – April. 28th, 2011 – HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services provider, announced today that it hassigned a global alliance agreement with the JDA Software Group, Inc, leader in supply chain management. This announcement expands HCL’s existing relationship with JDA thereby extending HCL’s offerings in professional services for industries such as retail, manufacturing, CPG and life sciences for the Americas and the Europe.
The alliance addresses the unique supply chain challenges for business in the areas like planning, procurement, production, distribution, warehousing, inventory, transportation and customer services. Leveraging cross-industry expertise, best practices and IT enabled services help realization of overall business strategy, the alliance will strengthen HCL package services to transform customer’s business and IT operations.
Dynamics is “All In” the Cloud. What Does This Mean for Partners?
By: Hunter Richards
Accounting Market Analyst, Software Advice
Hunter graduated in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in economics and film studies. He writes about accounting software, with particular interests in “green” innovations and compliance.
At the 2011 Convergence conference, Software Advice (an online guide to business technology) met with Marie Huwe, General Manager of Marketing for Microsoft Dynamics. The main subject of the interview was the strategy for Microsoft’s partners to preserve profits in the new age of cloud computing. Marie spoke about the new Microsoft Cloud Partner Profitability Guide, which is a strategic resource for partners to stay competitive in the times ahead. Check out the video interview below.
Yale School of Management and IBM Collaborate to Prepare Students with Analytics Skills for the Next Generation of Jobs
NEW HAVEN, Conn. & ARMONK, N.Y. – 28 Apr 2011: The Yale School of Management Center for Customer Insights and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced they are collaborating on an academic initiative that will provide analytics and training resources to MBA students, helping them develop the skills needed as they prepare to become future business leaders.
Social networks and mobile devices have reinvented the way in which people interact with company brands as massive amounts of data are being generated daily on media channels like Facebook and Twitter, consumer blogs and company websites. With so much data resting within these sources, it is essential for the upcoming generation of business leaders to possess strong analytics skills to better harness and measure brand and customer opinion, so they can capitalize on new opportunities.
Movers Specialty Service, Inc. Enhances Mobile Management with AT&T and TrueContext
Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, April 27, 2011
Movers Specialty Service, Inc. (MSS), a leading provider of specialty services to the relocation industry, is redefining the way it organizes, tracks and protects items in transit using a mobile application provided by AT&T*. With more than 30,000 certified service technicians operating in the U.S., MSS will begin rolling out ProntoForms™ from AT&T to help mobilize and automate critical supporting documents and details around each move.
