Job description: – Maintaining and developing relationships with existing clients of the company; – Contacting new potential clients in order to present the offered services; – Other specific sales activities: bidding, follow-up, reporting, budgeting, tracking payments. Requirements: Dynamism, availability to field work; Sales experience (those from the media / press is a plus); Ability to [...]
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SAP Buys Sybase
May142010SAP continues its battle with rival Oracle by acquiring Sybase, therefore combining SAP’s know-how in enterprise solutions with data base solutions offered by Sybase. The acquisition that will transform Sybase in a separate business division will be finalized in July and will cost almost 5.8 billion dollars, SAP offering 44% a share over the medium [...]
New Employments in IT
April272010This year a number of IT companies which offer software solutions and applications announced their intention to hire both developers and consultant for their Romanian centers. One of the companies that announced the increase of employees’ number is iQuest which offers complex solutions: ERP, CRM, BI, document management applications, apps for smart-phones and e-commerce platforms. [...]
Blanco Plans to Open an Office in Romania
April202010Blancco, the world’s greatest supplier of secured data destruction solutions has made plans to open a new office in Romania this year. Even though represented on our territory by Constantin Buda, Sales Manager for Eastern Europe, Blancco took the decision to open a new office because of the increasing market demand. Part of the expansion [...]
A New Oracle Acquisition
April192010The world’s second software provider will buy Phase Forward Company, making its entrance on the medical complex solutions market. The offer’s total value which is higher than the current value of the company with 30% is of 685 million dollars. The acquisition is part of Oracle’s plan to extend its business in all areas where [...]
The New Google Maps Romania
April192010Google has launched the Google Maps services for Romania, available since Friday on map.google.ro announces a Mediafax press release. The Maps Romania service is available both for local users and for companies. It will offer detailed online maps throughout the Romanian territory, users having the possibility to search companies, post free ads, contact details and [...]
Job Description – IT Head/ CIO/ CTO
April192010What is he? These terms name executive positions, manager of all informatics systems and resources afferent to them from a company. Depending on the organizational specific and needs, both the name of the job and the responsibilities can vary. Therefore, if the IT Head is present in non-IT companies and names the person who runes [...]
The HR “Poem” or the Uselessness of the Human Resources Departments
April192010In my junior years, when going to interviews was an activity intensely practices and assumed, I felt sometimes in the middle of a beauty contest. Don’t take me wrong, I wasn’t a contestant, but the ones who interviewed me and were telling stories about the HR specialist/manager’s role in the organization were. The most common [...]
Goodbye Google.cn!
March242010Even though the scandal has a history, recent rumors seem to confirm the information that Google Inc. will leave the Chinese market. The “fight” between Google and the Chinese government started the moment the company refused to further censor and filter the searches on the search engine and redirect them on the uncensored engine from [...]
Multisource Feedback or 360° Evaluation
March12010The multisource feedback is a method of evaluating employees, using more sources, multiple evaluators in different hierarchical and functional positions towards the evaluated person, inside or outside the organization. It is preferable that every evaluator to tell their opinion anonymously, so that the risk of biases be low. It is a greatly used system, US [...]
Record Donations
February192010I the mid December of 2009, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia made a public call for the “community” to donate in order t keep the project going. As everybody knows, Wikipedia.org doesn’t contain ads and lives only from donations and contributions of those who want everybody to have access to information: “Imagine a world in [...]
Motorola to Split
February172010Even though the announcement was first made in 2008, it seems that the decision was made now: inQ1 2010 Motorola will split into two companies, therefore the two co-CEOs will drop the “co” from the title. In the first trimester foe 2008, Motorola announced that a new division will be created inside the company, managed [...]
Retirement Reform Again on EU’s Table
February162010In the present crisis context in which both unemployment and budget deficit are deepening, the EU countries are discussing again the limit age for retirement. The majority of he countries wish to increase the age o retirement to 67 years or even more, writes the daily Le Figaro. The first country to announce this year [...]
A New Joint Venture Against Apple
February152010The Wall Street Journal announces an unprecedented union: 24 of the biggest mobile phone operators will work together to create a platform which will offer smart applications for mobile gadgets users. Amongst these 24 companies are the giants of telecom market: Vodafone (number 1 world operator), AT&T (number 1 USA operator), Deutsche Telekom (mail European [...]
Performance assessment – what do my employees know, can, do and want?
January262010Performances assessment represents an important process in the human resources activity and most certainly the easiest concept to quantify and monetize. What does “performance” mean? In general performance is seen as a favorable result. However performance evaluation doesn’t take into account only the employees’ professional results but the whole complex of interpersonal and professional qualities, [...]
Top Factoring has finished assessing the employees’ performances using ITEX 440
January262010The financial services company Top Factoring has finished evaluating the employees’ performances using ITEX 440. the evaluation focused on the last trimester of 2009 and had the goal to establish professional competences and abilities, specific behaviors, motivation and adhesion towards the company, on all hierarchical and functional levels. The objective of the assessment was to [...]
SENIOR .NET DEVELOPER
December22009Job description: Our client is a well known Romanian IT solutions integrator. The job requires specific software development following the quality standards and project stages imposed by the company’s policy. Requirements: Minimum 3 years previous work experience in the software application development, preferably business applications; University Degree preferable in technical/ IT field; Very good knowledge [...]
ITEX 440 helps on the way to performance!
November22009Today ITEX 440 has been launched! A company’s economical performances are directly proportional with the performances of the people that form it. There can’t be set new objectives, the activity can’t be strategically planed, if the strongest and weakest points of the employees are totally unknown. That’s why ITEX 440 was created, as a managerial [...]
Icahn Resigns
October262009The investor Carl Icahn has decided to resign from Yahoo’s Administration Board. According to the resignation letter sent by Icahn on Friday, this step is seen as a necessity as Yahoo doesn’t need an “activist” investor. Moreover Icahn mentioned he wants to focus his energy and time on other matters. The billionaire Carl Icahn, who [...]
Sun to Lay Off 10% of Employees
October212009Because of the period extend in which the antitrust department of European Commission must make a decision regarding Oracle’s take over of Sun Microsystems, the company is forced to lay off about 3000 employees. When Oracle’s takeover was announced, Sun representatives declared that no cut downs will be made before the takeover but because of [...]
ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
October162009This job is not available for the moment. As we are in the process of database actualization you can send your CV for this job. Job Description: The selected person will be responsible for implementing and supervising the IT acquisition process. Requirements: -bachelor’s degree; -at least 3 years of experience in sales, acquisition, logistics preferable [...]
BUSINESS ANALYST
October152009This job is not available for the moment. As we are in the process of database actualization you can send your CV for this job. Job Description: The selected person will be responsible of analysis and remodeling all business processes, also creating scenarios in order to optimize business fluxes. Requirements: -bachelor’s degree, preferable in business [...]
DATABASE ARCHITECT
October152009This job is not available for the moment. As we are in the process of database actualization you can send your CV for this job. Job Description: The selected person will be responsible for the whole process of data warehouse design and development, also assisting the operational teams in any matter concerning company’s data bases. [...]
The IBM, Oracle and Microsoft conflict relighted
October92009The conflict between the IT giants Oracle, Microsoft and IBM has reopened concerning the same problem: antitrust policy. The three companies take turn in allying against the third one. After in April IBM and Oracle along with other companies in the IT industry joined forces against Microsoft Europe now it is the turn for Oracle [...]
XEROX to Buy Affiliated Computer Services
September292009Bloomberg : Xerox Corp. agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. in a deal valued at about $5.8 billion, making its biggest purchase to shift to technology services as sales of its printing equipment drop. The acquisition will help triple sales from services to about $10 billion, Xerox said today in a statement. Chief Executive [...]