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Oracle to hire 1,700 staff in Europe

Though it cut hundreds of jobs in the 2008 recession, Oracle's fortunes in Europe are turning around on stronger database and cloud computing markets

UK businesses question ROI from CRM

A quarter of those respondents also believe the system slows them down

CIOs told to polish up their governance

While most organisations limit governance to gaining control and "eliminating bad risks", the highest-performing organisations also use it to "take good risks and gain competitive advantage", Gartner said

Betfair races to new messaging system

At the sports betting exchange, the SonicMQ platform from Progress Software ran more than 5,000 messages per second in testing. The requirements of SLAs and high-volume messaging for Betfair

BNP Paribas bets on project management platform

The brokerage firm says CA system will improve governance and optimize the completion of IT projects, leverage internal and external resources, and improve their cost allocation

U.K. Government unveils IT strategy with open source

Smaller suppliers will be given better access, Whitehall promisesrn

Social media compliance rules lacking: Gartner

By 2012, half of companies will try to block social media, the analyst house estimates. Find out why

How one British retailer outsourced its supply chain

Kerry Foods, which services customers such as Marks & Spencer, has a complex business-to-business supply chain. Yet, it expects to improve customer support and its trading network

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