WebSphere Journal

Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 A... (more)

TORONTO -- (Marketwired) -- 05/21/13 -- Avanade, a global business technology solutions and managed services provider, today released results from a global survey on adoption of social collaboration technologies by 4,000 end users and 1,000 business and IT decision-makers in 22 c... (more)

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 05/21/13 -- Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Infor Epiphany 10.0.1 was selected as a winner by ISM Inc., for the ISM 2013 Top 15 CRM Software Award in the Enterpris... (more)

The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) announced today that several leading semiconductor and EDA companies have voiced their commitment to adopt Si2’s OpenDFM standard version 2.0. The OpenDFM standard describes an open, high-level language that can generate popular verificati... (more)

The #CloudFirst trend is spreading, with Government Minister Francis Maude finally committing the UK to the approach earlier this month. But I remain concerned that there’s too much stick and not nearly enough carrot… and that cloud adoption more generally is ill-served by this m... (more)

Keynote® (NASDAQ: KEYN), the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud testing & monitoring, today announced expanded capabilities for Keynote’s DeviceAnywhere Enterprise platform. Addressing the need for efficient and intuitive mobile test automation tools for Enterprise QA tea... (more)

ZURICH, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Cyber Network, a Swiss managed services provider (MSP) based in Geneva, has chosen IBM Flex Systems and storage to upgrade its IT infrastructure and grow its cloud business. The integrated design and manage... (more)

BETHESDA, Md., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Management, Inc. (DMI), a leading provider of mobile enterprise solutions and services, announced that it has completed the strategic acquisition of Kalvin Consulting, a leader in Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics, ... (more)

NEW YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung Gains on Apple with Surge of 51% in Brand Value Apple remains the BrandZTM Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand for 2013, worth $185 billion. Apple grew just +1% in the last year compared to a +51% growth for its closest competitor, Sa... (more)

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), a leading provider of information availability software solutions, announced today that Equifax (NYSE: EFX), one of the largest sources of consumer and commercial data in the world, has adop... (more)

Moscow, Russia, May 21, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Intelligent Converters released new version of MSSQL-to-MySQL, a program to migrate Microsoft SQL databases to MySQL server, enhanced with custom type mapping feature. Both Microsoft SQL and MySQL database management systems have similar se... (more)

NEW YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung Gains on Apple with Surge of 51% in Brand Value Apple remains the BrandZTM Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand for 2013, worth $185 billion. Apple grew just +1% in the last year compared to a +51% growth for its closest competitor, Sa... (more)

NEW YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung reprend du terrain sur Apple avec un gain de 51 % pour la valeur de la marque Apple conserve la 1ère place du classement BrandZ[TM] des 100 marques les plus valorisées en 2013. La valeur d'Apple est estimée à 185 milliards $. La va... (more)

NUEVA YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung supera a Apple con un incremento del 51% en el valor de marca       Apple sigue siendo la BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand para 2013, valorada en 185.000 millones de dólares. Apple creció solo +1% el año pasado en compa... (more)

NEW YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung holt gegenüber Apple mit Markenwertanstieg um 51 % auf Apple bleibt auch 2013 mit einem Markenwert von 185 Mrd. USD laut BrandZ[TM] die wertvollste Marke weltweit. Das Unternehmen verzeichnete im letzten Jahr lediglich ein Wachstum v... (more)

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/20/13 -- Join us this Wednesday, May 22, 2013 for the annual VISION Conference organized by BC Chapter of the American Marketing Association (BCAMA). This year's conference has been restructured to provide more speakers and inter... (more)

The market for SMB cloud is poised for growth at over 39% CARG in the upcoming years in the APAC region. Reduced costs of the cloud approach together with increasing demand for public cloud services form the major forces driving the future market growth. Requirement of high speed... (more)

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Innovation Institute, Inc. (NTT I3), a US-based, wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (TOKYO: 9432; NYSE: NTT), the world's largest global IT and telecommunications services holding company, toda... (more)

NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Chinese Passenger Vehicle Market 2013-2023 http://www.reportlinker.com/p01187464/Chinese-Passenger-Vehicle-Market-2013-2023.html#utm_source=prnewswire&u... (more)

CHERRY HILL, N.J., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Destination Imagination has announced that Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photographer, will keynote the 2013 Global Finals, the world's largest creativity competition, at the opening ceremonies to be held on May 22, ... (more)