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...(Patrick Temple-West) Smart read The FT has just published an extensive special report on sustainable food and agriculture....
...The second and most recent series investigates the case of Patrick McDermott, a Korean-American cameraman and ex-partner of the late singer Olivia Newton-John, who vanished in 2005 while on a fishing trip...
...McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Marcia Shekerdemian as a senior consultant in its global restructuring and insolvency practice in London....
...Software executives such as Bill McDermott, former chief executive of SAP and now head of ServiceNow, claim the remarkable resilience reflects a fundamental change in the importance of software, making it...
...“We are moving our people to the areas where our customers need SAP the most,” said chief executive Bill McDermott....
...Asked if SAP’s CRM product is superior to Salesforce’s Mr McDermott replied: “It’s not even close.” The feeling is mutual....
...New cloud bookings — the key measure for sales success in the cloud — were up 36 per cent in the quarter to €411m, a “stunning” achievement, Mr McDermott said on a call....
...Bill McDermott, chief executive, said the second quarter reflected SAP's strategy to simplify software solutions and "to bridge silos" for its customers....
...Chief executive Bill McDermott said the numbers reflected the group's "trifecta" of a "fast growing cloud, strong software sales, and operating income expansion."...
...“The surprise is perhaps how well UK small-caps held up [since the referendum],” says Mr McDermott....
...Guess where McDermott is today? Yip — in a top role at StanChart. But there’s an upside. She is now in a position to broker a rapprochement with the troublesome Hain....
...SAP chief executive Bill McDermott called Callidus "the most innovative company in its space" and said the acquisition would enable to SAP to "take over" the customer relationship management industry....
...The Callidus purchase fills a gap in the group’s portfolio of cloud products, which together form “a virtual suite”, according to chief executive Bill McDermott....
...Managing director Darius McDermott also suggests the Baillie Gifford Strategic Bond too, whose managers shift the portfolio between different kinds of bond depending on which look most appealing....
...I don’t want to just have one type of fund manager in my portfolio,” says Mr McDermott....
...“The emerging markets of the world have emerged,” Mr McDermott said....
...Chief executive Bill McDermott said the group “has evolved from the world’s system of record to the platform for the digital revolution.”...
...Chief executive Bill McDermott predicted “continuing momentum in the second half” of the year....
...New cloud bookings — the key measure for sales success in the cloud — were up 33 per cent in the quarter to €340m, and chief executive Bill McDermott forecast “continuing momentum in the second half” of...
...Bill McDermott, chief executive, said the company is seeing “mass customer adoption” of its cloud-services, led by S/4 Hana, its flagship suite of business software designed to help companies engage in the...
...Darius McDermott, financial adviser at Chelsea Financial said Europe was “out of the doldrums” and beginning to recover....
...At SAP, that gave him a tag as an intellectual compared with his co-chief executive, Mr McDermott, who had a reputation as more of a salesman....
...Bill McDermott, SAP chief executive, adds that convincing European companies to invest in software technology could be a major boon, both to SAP and to the continent....
...“Our strategy has delivered for the shareholders of SAP,” said Bill McDermott, chief executive. “Since 2009, we have more than doubled the revenue, operating income and market cap of SAP . . ....
...“Every part of our cloud story is accelerating,” Mr McDermott said. Analysts at UBS noted some concerns about falling margins, but said volume growth outweighed these worries....
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