The company will highlight its data-analysis capabilities at a conference in October. Facing competitive pressures on several fronts, Siebel Systems Inc. has its eye on a market it thinks is ripe with opportunity: Business-intelligence software. The maker of customer-relationship-management software has for the past few years offered an assortment of software that crunches data for …
The petroleum bubble burst, but prices still declined. It’s the dog days of summer on Wall Street. Investors were not in a buying mood Thursday, and most indexes fell on very light trading. Semiconductor-industry stocks were among the hardest hit. The losses came despite slipping oil prices, which have been a major influence on the …
A new survey indicates that CIOs are only hiring for positions that address long-term needs. Chief information officers in the U.S. continue to take a cautious approach to increasing IT staff, choosing to hire only people who are essential to their long-term needs, a survey released Thursday showed. The national poll of 1,400 CIOs found …