By Alan Smith, SVP UK Ireland, UC4 Software

As enterprise application software is used more and more to automate complex business processes, organisations expose themselves to a new set of risks that are introduced by having their mission critical operations reliant upon IT and, more significantly the people who operate these systems. In addition, having said good-bye to the manual checks and balances that used to record and audit business transactions, auditors and compliance officers are demanding that IT be capable of accou

San Jose, CA January 8, 2009 DeviceAnywhere, the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for the mobile development life cycle, was named the 1 tool for mobile banking development of 2008 by Mobile Banking, a widely respected blog by mobile banking guru Brandon McGee. Awarded for positive feedback based on user experience, McGee this week placed DeviceAnywhere in the company of mobile banking pioneers and industry leaders Verisign, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and CitiGroup s Mobile Money Ventures.

Jihoon Shin, Vice

January 2009

Finance sector feels pressure to reduce carbon footprint

71 of finance companies feel pressure to reduce energy consumption
72 plan to reduce carbon footprint in the next 18 months
62 of IT managers do not know how much power their data centre draws
Only 38 enforce shutting down computers at night

The majority of finance sector organisations are feeling pressure to reduce their carbon footprints, according to a survey of IT managers commissioned by IT solutions dis

Leading foreign exchange and payment specialist connects to SWIFT and achieves greater Straight Through Processing

LONDON, 13th January, 2009 SMA Financial www.sma.co.uk , SWIFT Regional partner for UK, Eire and Channel Islands today announced that Cal International www.cal-intl.com a leading payment solutions provider has gone live with SMA s fully accredited SWIFT Bureau Service.

Cal International is fully owned subsidiary of Israel Credit Cards Cal . Cal International is a global payment provider offering fu

Opera II Boosts Visibility, Management Information and Efficiencies to Help Drive Business Growth for Leading Recruitment Consultancy

About Calco
Calco is a leading recruitment specialist for the construction industry and providers of major engineering infrastructure. Calco works with industry leading organisations involved in the management, design, building, civil, structural and power engineering, surveying and town planning aspects of major construction projects and infrastructure schemes.

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Future, the special-interest media group is streamlining its worldwide finance operations with the help of document management technology from Version One www.versionone.co.uk . This technology, which will be tightly integrated into Future s in-house Lawson accounting system, will ensure consistency of brand, cut costs and support the numerous document production and management needs of a growing global business. Future is implementing Version One s software in a two-phased approach and is expected to be fully live by March 2009.

- Leading European ISVs to meet in Prague in May

London, 9 January 2009 IT Europa announced today that it will be staging the Third Annual European ISV Convention from 13 - 14 May 2009 in Prague. The event will bring together leading Independent Software Vendors with Hardware, Software and Service organisations to explore and address the issues impacting the development of the IT Industry in Europe and to develop and strengthen partnerships aimed at supporting solution-based sales.

The third annual European ISV Conventio

Fast Lane Sponsors Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for NetApp UK Partner Event

Leading NetApp trainer to support annual award available to all registered NetApp UK VIP Partner Programme members

12th January, 2009 - Fast Lane UK, the leading IT training provider for Cisco and NetApp specialists, has become a sponsor for the annual NetApp UK Partner Awards which recognises the best sales, technical and marketing expertise from NetApp partners and system integrators. Fast Lane will be presenting the award for outsta

Economic forecasts are driving Service Providers towards the TM Forum s library of best practices and standards to help reduce risk and accelerate their transformation projects

SINGAPORE January 12, 2009 - TM Forum, the world s leading industry association for improving business effectiveness, is expanding operations in Asia in response to growing interest from regional service providers seeking to reduce costs and improve operational processes in the face of tougher economic pressure.

TM Forum s Management Worl

NUREMBERG, Germany, January 12, 2009 Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source collaboration software, has been named one of the top 20 Companies to Watch in 2009 by Linux Magazine.

The Linux Magazine 20 Companies to Watch in 2009 list features vendors that are best positioned in the coming year to spur Linux and Open Source adoption while delivering on the immediate needs of the marketplace.

Our open source collaboration software gives businesses an alternative to more costly proprietary offerings from Micr