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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO Business Intelligence

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. A global management team was also formed to support the effort.

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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer. 1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Elevating Healthcare Staffing: From Spreadsheet Chaos to Data-Driven Decisions  

InsightOut

The journey from its inception in 2004 to becoming an industry pacesetter involved the amalgamation of six dynamic brands into what is now known as Caliber. Challenging the Status Quo with Data Insights Historically, Caliber, like many organizations, relied heavily on Microsoft Excel for data management and analysis.

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IDC Foundry India CIO Summit 2024: How CIOs Are Transitioning into the AI Era

CIO Business Intelligence

Vasant Rao, Managing Director, IDC India and South Asia says, “As the premier thought leadership platform for Tech leaders in India, the India CIO Summit will see deliberations on key Industry trends, business impact and best practices in infusing technology into every gamut of business.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. March 2004: Autonomy acquires NativeMinds and Cardiff Software. October 2007: Autonomy acquires data management specialist Meridio for £20 million.

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How to Use Apache Iceberg in CDP’s Open Lakehouse

Cloudera

SDX Integration (Ranger): Manage access to Iceberg tables through Apache Ranger. 5 2004 7129270. Next, one of the most common data management tasks is to modify the schema of the table. 1 2008 7009728. 2 2007 7453215. 3 2006 7141922. 4 2005 7140596. 6 2003 6488540. 7 2002 5271359. 8 2001 5967780. 9 2000 5683047. ….