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Jürgen Strahwald is heading the Corporate IT Governance department of Siemens. His responsibilities include IT Strategy, IT Architecture and IT innovation as well as the management of the IT project and services portfolio and Information Security.
Over the past six months PGi and Orange Business Services have been strengthening their relationship. Arnd Hungerberg and Eric Masseboeuf explain what they have been up to and how it can benefit conferencing customers.
Jean Critcher and Christian Hoareau explain how Orange Business Services and Riverbed are working together in application acceleration and cloud computing. This includes enriching the Business Acceleration portfolio with flexible computing, storage acceleration, satellite acceleration and unified communications acceleration.
Adrian Ho from IDC presented at Orange Business Live 2011 "new technologies & future priorities for IT departments", he was replacing Sandra Ng who unfortunately couldn't attend that meeting.
The workspace of the future is attracting much interest in the media at the moment. Cedric Parent explains what it all means and how it - along with cloud computing - will transform the way we communicate and work.
Typical business users communicate using many different devices, including the fixed telephone, smartphone and PC. But recent developments in unified communications and technology innovations could transform the way they communicate, as Oscar Pato explains.
Globalization, mobility and consumerization are three of the most important trends affecting how companies collaborate. Michael Dickerson explains how they can overcome the challenges posed by these trends and describes some new technology that can help them collaborate.
Technology has always played a key role in the banking industry. Gilles Sabatier explains how cloud computing promises to help transform the banking industry by enabling even better operational efficiencies and allowing them to deploy key applications and services quickly and worldwide.
Jean Critcher and Thierry Messmer (Ipanema) explain key challenges facing customers keeping their applications running smoothly in the network. Issues discussed include application SLAs, performance as a service and reducing complexity.
Vivek Badrinath, CEO, Orange Business Services explain how Orange is developing a strategy that will fully support you in meeting your business and technology challenges, today and in the future.
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Retail banking is important to all of us, but it is an unusual industry because there are very few truly global players. Patrick Desmares explains that for retail banks to grow beyond their domestic markets they will have to look to emerging markets and use technology such as mobile banking to reach new customers.
Recently Fons Trompenaars has co-written an article with Peter Woolliams entitled "Lost in Translation" regarding culture and failure which was published in the April online issue of the Harvard Business Review.
Businesses are facing security challenges posed by increasing mobility, new consumer technologies and more complex threats. Nicholas Furge explains how enterprises can tackle these threats, improve business productivity and protect their reputation.
Over the past six months PGi and Orange Business Services have been strengthening their relationship. Arnd Hungerberg and Eric ??? explain what they have been up to and how it can benefit conferencing customers.