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QAD Taps the Power of Going Mobile with QAD Enterprise Applications

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QAD Taps the Power of Going Mobile with QAD Enterprise Applications

Industry Analyst States: Mobility in ERP Can Increase End-user Productivity by at Least 15% and Enable Faster Decision Making Via Access to Real-time ERP Data

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– QAD Inc. (NAS: QADA) (NAS: QADB) , a global leader of enterprise software and services for manufacturing companies around the world, today announced new components of its Mobile Framework now available in QAD Enterprise Applications. The QAD mobile applications (apps) extend management capabilities, accelerate decision making and increase operational efficiency.

QAD has leveraged components of its existing infrastructure and made them available in a secure environment designed for tablets and smart phones. With this approach, users can access data using QAD browse framework on their desktop or their tablet. QAD delivers applications that support workflow and approvals as well as access to business intelligence data — all for the mobile environment. The QAD apps, designed for simplicity and downloadable from the Apple App Store, Google Play and the QAD Store, deliver pragmatic functions for power users, decision makers and IT staff considering an enterprise mobile strategy.

With components of the QAD Mobile Framework, users gain an extended reach of QAD Enterprise Applications to do the following:

  • Global Requisition System Approval — Easily review, approve, route or reject purchase requisitions.
  • Analytics – Rapidly apply QAD Mobile BI apps to access QAD BI dashboards and operational reporting to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Customizable Mobile Browses – Flexibly develop, build and review browses for specific management roles

The QAD Mobile Framework is specifically designed to help drive productivity and convenience for workers on the go. With QAD Mobile Framework, mobile users have practical tools to optimize data access, workflow and analytics. These capabilities allow mobile workers to respond quickly to changing business conditions and react to action items that need urgent attention.

Productivity is Just a Tap Away for the Effective Enterprise

In a recent report entitled Accelerate ERP Value Through Mobility by Sunil Padmanabh, analyst at Gartner Inc., he wrote: “Mobility in ERP will increase end-user productivity by at least 15% and enable …read more

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Cornerstone OnDemand Positioned as Leader in 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suite

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Cornerstone OnDemand Positioned as Leader in 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites Report

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cornerstone OnDemand (NAS: CSOD) , a global leader in cloud-based talent management software solutions, today announced it has been placed by Gartner Inc. in the “Leaders Quadrant” of the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites report.1 According to the report, talent management suites include capabilities for learning management, performance management, succession planning, compensation management and recruiting management. The Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision.”

“We believe our recognition as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites further confirms Cornerstone’s product leadership, focus on innovation and dedication to client success,” said Adam Miller, founder and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. “Talent management has emerged as one of the most important business initiatives within global organizations today. We feel our placement as the only independent, best-of-breed vendor in the Leaders Quadrant is a testament to the depth of our solution and our commitment to our more than 10 million users worldwide.”

According to the report, Leaders demonstrate a market-defining vision of how talent management technology can help HR leaders achieve business objectives. Leaders have the ability to execute against that vision through products, services and demonstrated, solid business results in the form of revenue and earnings. In talent management suites, Leaders show a consistent ability to win broad suite deals. They have significant successful customer deployments in North America, EMEA and the Asia/Pacific region in a wide variety of vertical industries, with multiple proof points. Leaders are often what other providers in the market measure themselves against.

In addition to the Gartner report, Cornerstone also was ranked as a “Leader” in the March 2013 report, “The Forrester Wave™: Talent Management, Q1 2013″ by Forrester Research Inc.

For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.csod.com. To follow Cornerstone OnDemand on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/cornerstoneinc. To read Cornerstone OnDemand’s talent management blog, visit http://www.csod.com/blog.

About Cornerstone OnDemand

Cornerstone OnDemand is a leading global provider of comprehensive talent management solutions delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Our solutions are designed to enable organizations to meet the challenges they face in empowering and maximizing the productivity of their human capital. Our core solution is an integrated, cloud-based suite that consists of the Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud, …read more
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Accenture Achieves High Vendor Assessment by Gartner Inc. in Vendor Panorama for Trade Promotion Man

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Accenture Achieves High Vendor Assessment by Gartner Inc. in Vendor Panorama for Trade Promotion Management

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Accenture (NYS: ACN) received a high vendor assessment for its Accenture CAS Trade Promotion Management (TPM) software solution in Gartner Inc.’s recently published “Vendor Panorama for Trade Promotion Management in Consumer Goods.”1

Gartner assessed 14 service providers for the Vendor Panorama, which focused on the TPM marketplace and leading vendors that help consumer goods companies use technology to better manage their trade promotions.

“We believe the assessment of Accenture CAS in this new Vendor Panorama report is recognition of our advanced trade promotion capabilities and cements our reputation as a leading provider of TPM software,” said Henning Fromme, Accenture CAS software product strategy and development lead. “Since introducing the first web-based TPM solution, we’ve been dedicated to creating an integrated sales platform that uses trade promotion management and optimization to drive exceptional sales planning.”

Gartner believes that technologies related to managing trade promotions have never been more relevant, as the average revenue expended by manufacturers for promotions now exceeds 20%. More and more companies are leaving spreadsheets for automated technologies, while others are adding promotion optimization capabilities. In the Vendor Panorama, Gartner profiles the TPM/TPO market and the leading software vendors across core areas, including: Completeness, User Experience, Product Vision, Analytical Strength and Configurability.

Accenture CAS is also a key component within Accenture Perfect Promotion, part of Accenture’s set of business services, which brings together Accenture’s management consulting capability, industry skills, and Accenture CAS software to create a highly differentiated solution for the consumer goods industry. This end-to-end service is designed to help clients increase trade promotion volume and effectiveness with less investment.

1 Gartner, Inc. “Vendor Panorama for Trade Promotion Management in Consumer Goods,” by Dale Hagemeyer, August 31, 2012.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 259,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

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Citrix Receives Highest Possible Rating in Gartner MarketScope for Enterprise File Synchronization &

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Citrix Receives Highest Possible Rating in Gartner MarketScope for Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Citrix today announced that the company received the highest possible rating of “Strong Positive” in Gartner Inc.’s “MarketScope for Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing (EFSS).”¹ The report assesses Citrix ShareFile™, the foundation of the company’s follow-me data strategy. Citrix was evaluated for its corporate viability, product, business and product strategy, innovation and customer experience.

According to report authors, Monica Basso, vice president at Gartner and Jeffrey Mann, vice president at Gartner, “File synchronization and sharing is a critical capability for mobile workforces whose organizations have ongoing mobility initiatives with media tablets and BYOD programs. We expect IT organizations will face increasing demand for these capabilities, with deeper focus on security and compliance by regulated or security-conscious enterprises.”

“We’re seeing strong customer adoption of Citrix ShareFile, with 300 percent growth in enterprise licenses over the past six months,” said Jesse Lipson, VP & GM, Data Sharing, Citrix. “Growth was fueled by focusing on customer needs and experience, seamless integrations with other Citrix products to provide a comprehensive enterprise mobility solution and partnerships with top industry players. We believe Gartner’s Strong Positive rating affirms our leadership in the market and reflects our commitment to innovate and deliver a delightful user experience while meeting the security requirements of enterprises.”

Citrix ShareFile is an enterprise follow-me data solution that enables IT to deliver a secure, managed and robust service that meets the mobility and collaboration needs of all users. ShareFile empowers users to securely share files with anyone, and sync files across all of their devices. With ShareFile, IT also gains the flexibility to store enterprise data in the most optimal locations to meet compliance and performance requirements.

Citrix continues to innovate to meet and exceed user and IT expectations. With the recently released StorageZone Connectors for network shares, Citrix allows IT to extend their organizations’ follow-me data strategy beyond the data stored in ShareFile. Building on its leadership in the desktop and app virtualization space, Citrix also introduced the industry’s first sync capability optimized for virtual environments. With a strong focus on enabling enterprise mobility, Citrix released new features for iOS (iPad and iPhone), Android and Windows 8 since the start of the year.

The Gartner “MarketScope for Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing”is available on the Gartner website and the Citrix website here. Click to tweet.

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Tripwire, Inc. Acquires nCircle

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Tripwire, Inc. Acquires nCircle

Acquisition creates $140M company poised to lead multi-billion dollar strategic risk and security market

PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Tripwire, Inc., a global provider of IT security solutions, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire nCircle, a leading provider of information risk and security performance management solutions. The acquisition is expected to close in April and is subject to the customary closing conditions. The terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.

“Tripwire and nCircle have the opportunity to be a powerful and transformational combination in the rapidly changing security market,” said Jim Johnson, CEO of Tripwire. “Our combined solutions are uniquely positioned to align security posture with business objectives, a crucial step in making security and risk meaningful and actionable across the enterprise.”

In 2012, the two companies’ combined bookings were approximately $140 million; together they had over 500 employees and more than 7,000 customers in 96 countries. The combined company would have ranked among the largest security and vulnerability management companies in this competitive space, including IBM, EMC, Symantec and McAfee. Tripwire is highly profitable, with a customer base that includes nearly 50% of the Fortune 500.

“Security experts know that continuous monitoring — the process of finding and eliminating vulnerabilities before they can be exploited — is a foundational component of any security framework and the most cost effective way to reduce the risk of security breaches,” said Abe Kleinfeld, CEO of nCircle. “The combination of Tripwire and nCircle brings together the industry’s leading researchers and the broadest and deepest solutions for reducing risk.”

Today, cyber security is more than an IT problem. The convergence of security and risk now impacts the entire enterprise, and executives are demanding risk-based security solutions. Following the acquisition of nCircle, Tripwire’s combined solutions will enable senior security officers to make risk-based security decisions aligned with business priorities and goals.

In a Gartner Inc. report titled Meeting the Information Needs of the Chief Risk Officer in 2023, analystsPaul E. Proctor and Rob McMillansaid: “Chief Risk Officers will have the benefit of an engaged executive team, but the challenge of a constantly shifting universe of risk to present and prioritize for stakeholders. To manage their responsibilities they will need new knowledge, tools and techniques for gathering, assessing and presenting information.”

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Web Startup Targets DIY Investors Who Think They Can Spot a Trend

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By Mark Jewell

BOSTON – Think you can tell the difference between a fad and a trend with staying power? Look around, and you might come up with some decent investing ideas.

If you’ve noticed that lots of your friends are using tablet computers instead of PCs, it might be a good time to consider stocks of companies driving the tablet revolution.

See evidence that Americans are getting more serious about their weight problems? Consider stocks of fitness center chains and weight-loss clinics. If you’re convinced that we’ll never get disciplined about our diets, try the opposite approach and invest in fast-food chains.

For average investors hoping to beat the market, buying several stocks fitting a broad investment theme is probably a better option than assessing which individual companies to buy. Few have the know-how to routinely make good stock picks, let alone the patience to do the required research.

With those realities in mind, a Silicon Valley startup last year launched a website aimed at do-it-yourself investors who consider themselves savvy trendspotters. Motif Investing enables customers to buy baskets of up to 30 stocks each that fit various “motifs,” as the company calls them.

The bigger player a company is in that investing theme, the larger its weighting is in the basket of stocks. For example, Wal-Mart makes up nearly one-quarter of the portfolio in a retail stock motif called “Discount Nation.”

The website has a menu of more than 100 motifs. Some are fairly conventional, such as offerings focusing on dividend-paying stocks and diversified bond portfolios.

But most are trend-oriented, such as a “Tablet Takeover” motif geared toward tablet computing, a “Fighting Fat” basket of weight loss-themed stocks and a “Junk Food” motif of fast-food and soft drink stocks. If social change is important to you, a “No Glass Ceilings” motif owns stocks of corporations run by female executives. Another invests in companies with gay-friendly workplace policies.

IDEA-SHARING FEATURES

Motif launched last June, and on Thursday announced a new feature enabling individuals to create custom motifs and share them with other customers. Eventually, Motif plans to adopt a royalty system, allowing someone creating a motif to earn small payments when other investors buy it.

Customers can post investing ideas online for all to see, or friends or colleagues can exchange tips privately.

EMERGING MODEL

Motif is among a small number of young companies trying to challenge traditional investment advisory firms through novel uses of the Internet and social networking. Others include Covestor, MarketRiders, Wealthfront, ShareBuilder and Betterment.

Although none has become a significant player in the industry, some could eventually catch on with certain types of investors.

“There’s room for these niche players if they can get some traction,” says analyst David Schehr of research firm Gartner Inc.

Motif’s likely target audience, Schehr says, is investing enthusiasts …read more
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Why Building A Company Facebook Will Usually Fail

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By Susan Adams, Forbes Staff A new study from Baylor University tells the alluring tale of a company that used a proprietary social network—its own internal Facebook, in other words—to great benefit. The study makes the network’s success seem like an easy feat. But according to Anthony Bradley, a vice president at Gartner Inc., an information technology consulting firm based in Stamford, Ct,. and co-author of The Social Organization: How to Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers and Employees, only one in five companies is able to build an effective corporate network.
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