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Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

CIO Business Intelligence

As such, Kay’s biggest challenge in setting the stage for her digital ambitions — and one that has involved the entire C-suite — has been unifying the IT operations of Principal Financial’s individual businesses units in order to develop an enterprise-wide data foundation and cloud architecture on which to build its next-generation services.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. May 2011: Autonomy sneaks in one last acquisition, of online backup service Iron Mountain Digital, for $380 million. June 2015: Hewlett-Packard Co. 19, 2011, and Nov.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt. Periodic checks on your IT spending can unearth hidden costs you might not be aware of, from unused software licenses to redundant services. Billing errors, overprovisioning of licenses, and changes in capacity are other things to look for.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. Many organizations have purpose-built solutions for asking business intelligence questions, providing disaster recovery/backup, etc.,

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