Intelligent Waves (IW) has named six senior public and private industry leaders to join its advisory board and assist the company in achieving its market expansion and strategic growth goals. The company said the additional members are retired lieutenant generals John Sattler and Thomas Metz; Rob Franklin, cofounder of GoodSeeker; Jim Hunt, former president of […] More

Guidehouse announced on Wednesday that it named Aimee Sziklai as new partner and the commercial payer leader of its health segment. The former health plan executive brings to the company extensive knowledge and experience in global payer operations. Sziklai will focus on embedding forward-leaning digital transformation, cloud-based, and automation solutions and capabilities into health plan […] More

Gunnison Consulting Group, a leader in software development, data analytics and enterprise system testing for U.S. federal government customers, has appointed Renato DiPentima to its board of directors, the company announced on Wednesday.

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Thomas “Tom” Manning, formerly lead director at Dun & Bradstreet, has been named chairman of the board and interim CEO of the Short Hills, New Jersey-based commercial information provider. Manning’s appointment comes after Dun & Bradstreet CEO and Board Chairman Robert Carrigan decided to step down from his roles, the company said Monday. The board’s nominating […] More

Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud region in France to help commercial and government customers run applications and store data within the country. AWS said Monday the AWS EU (Paris) Region represents the company’s fourth cloud region in Europe and 18th technology infrastructure region in the world. The new region includes three infrastructures called availability zones that are located in separate geographic locations […] More

SAP SE has announced the initial list of partners that will participate in a blockchain co-innovation program which aims to provide an opportunity for participants to explore the applications of blockchain technologies. The SAP Leonardo Blockchain Co-Innovation program looks to integrate a digital ledger system onto digital supply chain, Internet of Things and manufacturing services, SAP […] More

The Homeland Security and Defense Business Council has selected six new companies as members as the council works to facilitate idea exchanges between industry and government. The council said Thursday senior executives and professionals from large, midtier and small member companies participate in various programs and the Thought Leadership Committee that engages with administration officials […] More

Robert Carrigan, CEO of Dun & Bradstreet, has been selected to succeed the retiring Christopher Coughlin as the company’s chairman of the board. Thomas Manning, a director at Dun & Bradstreet and member of the company’s audit and innovation & technology committees, was also named lead director and chairman of the firm’s nominating and governance committee, Dun […] More

Salient CRGT has elevated John Edgar, former company vice president and chief strategist for information technology transformation, as a senior VP while Kevin Bahumian and Anuj Mathur have been promoted to the roles of vice president from their former directorial positions. The software development and technology services company said Thursday Edgar will continue to manage Salient’s innovation centers and provide leadership […] More

Bruce Klein and Paul Opalack have joined Tech 2000 Inc. as members of the company’s board of directors. Klein, formerly senior vice president of Cisco’s worldwide partner organization, and Opalack, managing director of Noblestar Capital, will aid in the company’s effort to further the development of its software-as-a-service businesses appnetic and Lumious, Tech 2000 said […] More

A Research and Markets report predicts that the global financial sector will increase its information technology spending on big data solutions from 2014 to 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 25.5 percent. The company said Friday the spending growth is due to the efforts of financial organizations to update their data infrastructure in order to address challenges […] More

A Research and Markets report forecasts the global market for Internet of Things analytics technology will rise in value to $16.4 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate of 27.4 percent. The research firm said Thursday that many technology vendors are developing analytics offerings for IoT as more organizations invest in the platform. […] More