What HR Can Learn from the Eva Carneiro and Jose Mourinho Case

9 years ago0344 The dismissal case surrounding Chelsea FC’s former doctor, Eva Carneiro, has been rumbling on for nearly a year now. Yesterday she settled her claim against the club on confidential terms, and reached a discrimination settlement against the club's former manager Jose Mourinho. Speaking to HR Grapevine, Beverley Sunderland, Managing...

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CRM News: Salesforce Gets a Black Eye With Outage; Buys Demandware

9 years ago0374 CRM news has been brewing lately. As the CRM software and marketing automation markets continue to morph and change, acquisitions have been defining the marketplace of late. Over the past several weeks, Salesforce, a cloud-based CRM provider, and Marketo, an independent marketing automation software vendor, have undergone major...

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Reddit Reveals the STRANGEST Workplace Rules

9 years ago0383 All offices have some rules that are bound to upset one or two employees – no Facebook during lunch breaks, a ban on mobile use or even strict rules around eating food at your desk. But all of these minor infractions seem to pale into insignificance compared to the rules some staff have claimed their workplaces have...

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Big Data Is a Big Miss When It Comes to IoT: SAS

9 years ago0448 According to SAS, there is a misconception when it comes to the Internet of Things that the more data an organisation has the better, which often results in a surplus of unusable information. When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), IoT Domain Lead at SAS Kevin Kalish has said that focusing on collecting big data often results...

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The World's Largest Tech Companies 2016: Apple Bests Samsung, Microsoft and Alphabet

9 years ago0456 When in April Apple AAPL -0.65% announced the first ever decline in iPhone sales, some observers questioned if the company's best days are behind it. Despite the angst, Tim Cook's Apple continues to outshine its peers in every metric that counts. Among global tech companies it has the highest revenue ($233 billion), profit ($53 billion),...

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Fight the Good Fight: Why HR Needs to Lead by Example in Gender Equality

9 years ago0438 In 2015, research by the CMI found that, on average, women managers earn 22% less than their male colleagues in equivalent positions. For junior managers, this amounts to an average difference of £8,524, rising to £14,943 at senior levels. The problem is compounded by the lack of female representation senior management positions....

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How The Wealthiest Person In Every State Got Rich

9 years ago0520 How do you become the wealthiest person in your state? In some places, the path to prosperity is obvious. In California, you want to be in tech. In Nevada, it pays to own casinos. But others may surprise you. The richest person in Texas? Not an oil tycoon. In New York? Not a Wall Street banker. Forbes has again detailed the richest...

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Cray’s Latest Supercomputer Runs Openstack and Open Source Big Data Tools

9 years ago0560 Cray has always been associated with speed and power and its latest computing beast called the Cray Urika-GX system has been designed specifically for big data workloads. What’s more, it runs on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform and supports open source big data processing tools like Hadoop and Spark. Cray recognizes that...

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Big Data and Analytics Spending to Hit $187 Billion

9 years ago0444 In its new "Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide," research firm IDC forecasts revenues in the market will increase more than 50 percent over its five-year forecast period. Worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will grow from nearly $122 billion in 2015 to $187 billion in 2019, according to the...

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Insiders Are Today’s Biggest Security Threat

9 years ago0398 The most fundamental element of threat is deeply human. Colossal data breaches have grabbed the nation’s headlines for the past couple of years. Each incident prompts solemn corporate pledges to do everything possible that would prevent its future reoccurrence. However, the cycle of alarm, dismay and reassurance, along with the...

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SWIFT to Unveil New Security Plan After Hackers' Heists

9 years ago0357 The SWIFT secure messaging service that underpins international banking said on Tuesday it plans to launch a new security program as it fights to rebuild its reputation in the wake of the Bangladesh Bank heist. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)'s chief executive, Gottfried Leibbrandt, told a...

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Microsoft Updates Dynamics CRM With a New IoT Twist

9 years ago0364 There's an update available for Microsoft's Dynamics CRM 2016, and it brings with it a brand-new tool to help companies tap the Internet of Things for their customer-service efforts. Announced on Monday, the Spring 2016 Wave of Dynamics CRM adds Connected Field Service, a new tool companies can soon use to leverage the potential of...

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