Part of the plan to create this better product experience involves opening up SAP to lighter-weight protocols that are more forgiving of distributed applications, including REST and OData, giving customers the freedom to quickly decide an application would be better run as a service, in the cloud, or exposed through a Facebook widget.
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Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.
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An Industrial and Provident Society (IPS) has been set up to run the service as Suffolk County Council tries to make savings.
TORwallet has just announced an online bitcoin wallet run as a TOR hidden service (to access the service users must run the onion proxy software on their computer).
The Early Day Motion, tabled by Labour MP John McDonnell with cross-party support, urged the government to run the railway as a "public service".
In awarding a contract to run a public service, such as a railway, there is a balance to be struck between making the contract long enough to encourage serious investment and not so long that the forecasts built into bids for the contract become highly speculative.
The search giant already has its Google Analytics service, which measures traffic to websites, as well as its DoubleClick service for advertisers to run campaigns.
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"The U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team was run as a fraudulent enterprise and individuals both inside and outside of sport aided and abetted this scheme and profited greatly, " CEO Travis T.
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It appears that the Minister is now prepared to wrest control of whole areas from local government and put them on a wholly different footing - waste, social services, trading standards for example, run regionally or even as a single national service.
Already, rail officials have slowed down some bullet trains -- originally planned to run as fast as 380 kmph (236 mph) -- to make the service safer and cheaper.
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The OneLogin survey finds, for example, about 22 percent of respondents now run 10 or more Software-as-a-Service applications (that they know of, of course) within their enterprises. another 35 percent run between four and nine apps.
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Suu Kyi also spoke on the need for a "clean, efficient civil service" to help run the nation even as governments change.
American firms in particular have long favoured Ireland as a place to set up factories and run service facilities thanks to its well-educated labour force and low corporate-tax rate.
TrustLaw, a news service run by Thomson Reuters, has ranked India as the worst G20 country in which to be a woman.
Customers are becoming indifferent, even hostile, to unsolicited e-mail, and legitimate marketers are getting lost in increasingly aggressive filters and run the risk of being reported as spammers and banned from Internet service providers.
The largest consumer product companies have seen their chief marketing officers engage with software as a service (SaaS) providers to design and run their outbound marketing programs to launch new products and animate their loyalty programs, without a word with their internal IT organizations.
Transport for Greater Manchester said tram services will run every 12 minutes and a six-minute service will be introduced as passenger numbers grow.
For commoditized applications that require very little care and maintenance, and offer little business value beyond their basic functionality, the cheapest way to consume these applications is as a Software as a Service (SaaS), which of course can run in the cloud.
This is probably bad news from a customer-service perspective, as area developers tend to appoint managers to run stores.
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In the long run, consumers would perhaps face higher prices and lower-quality service, as the biggest insurers would have fewer rivals to check their prices and offerings.
The Postal Service said last week that without changes it could run out of cash as soon as October.
The BBC has previously revealed how a senior member of the Fire Service was allowed to run a private business selling uniforms at the same time as he was in charge of the organisation's stores and procurement.
Dean says a trial run yielded nearly half a million applicants, and he plans to officially roll out the service as part of an overall Ruff Ryders relaunch later this fall.
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It has also put forward plans for a new number 11 service to run between the Vale and Torteval every 15 minutes at peak times, as well as passing by the airport and the town centre.
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