Sentences with phrase «as information technology company»

MONTREAL — CGI Group Inc. still expects that the acquisition of U.K. - based Logica will deliver a 25 to 30 per cent boost to its earnings next year as the information technology company «aggressively» pursues cost savings.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

As information technology has become an increasingly critical aspect of a modern companies» operations, potential buyers have intensified their scrutiny of the seller's IT systems.

Perth - based information technology company ASG Group has reported a significant financial loss for the 2013 financial year as it struggles to come to terms with the changing sector.

While the company has routinely disavowed being a media entity for a variety of reasons (including the fact that media companies are not valued as highly by investors as technology companies), Facebook clearly plays a huge role in how people get news and information about the world.

the Company's business success and profitability depend, in part, on effective information technology systems and on continuing to develop and implement improvements in technology, particularly as our business processes become more digital;

As even more employees download work - related information and data onto their personal phones, these three factors are conspiring to make company data a potential casualty of biometric technology's legal protection problem, Bond says.

The company is now known simply as Sayers, and provides information technology products, services and support.

Reuters also reported the company is «exploring» selling its healthcare information technology business, which includes such brands as API Healthcare and Centricity EMR, according to people familiar with the matter.

As an example, Adamson tells of a Toronto high - net - worth investor who was considering investing about half a million dollars in an information technology company about to go public in June 2014.

Predicasts» Overview of Markets and Technology (PROMT) is a one - stop database for public and private company information and industry info as found in all print media, such as trade journals, newspapers, magazines, and industry reports.

THE 2000 Asia Pacific IT&T Awards are open for nominations.The Business News - sponsored awards are designed to recognise cutting edge innovations from small to medium enterprises as well as large multinational companies in the information technology and

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

As a technology - based media company, Baidu aims to provide the best way for people to find information.

While at Symantec India, as business head of the banking, financial services and information technology verticals, Bedi helped the company achieve year - on - year triple - digit growth.

The aggregate sector weights of energy and materials in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index have fallen from approximately 40 % around a decade ago to about 14 % as of October 2017, with the weights of information technology (IT) and consumer companies steadily increasing.

The cloud business competes against major information technology companies such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to rent data storage space and computing power that have become the building blocks of Internet - based systems.

Such a backdrop could provide a considerable tailwind for companies in the industrials sector, as well as some areas of the materials, information technology and energy sectors.

The S&P 500 is commonly divided into 11 sectors, such as information technology, health care and energy companies.

That is why I am excited to be a Director and involved with Premise — a data company that analyzes information people collect on their smartphones about everyday life, like the price of local foods — in its capacity to mobilize these technologies as widely as possible.

As the First - Mover of entrepreneurship in the Tech field in the region, Oasis500 helps passionate and ambitious entrepreneurs start their own companies in the Tech sector, including Information Technology, Mobile Applications, Digital Media, E-commerce, Web Development, Software development, and Hardware and Electronics Design.

This makes technology tasks — such as keeping systems up and running, securing company information and implementing new solutions — challenging.

The company noted that SMEs often contract out e-commerce as they lack in - house information technology resources.

As head of the Visa Corporate Ventures and Strategic Alliances group he led investments in information security, mobile, and payments technology companies — several of which were acquired by major corporations.

The companies selected come from 15 industries, such as Information and communication technologies, Education, Healthcare, amongst others.

We define tech companies as those developing an information technology or those whose businesses are Internet - enabled, excluding financial tech, green tech, and life sciences companies.

To be recognized as the premier company providing information technology solutions worldwide.

A recent Deloitte survey of 138 global technology, media and telecommunications firms named mobile devices as the top security risk, and three - quarters of the companies surveyed reported information security breaches.

There is also an opportunity to connect Canadian businesses with new and like - minded partners in APEC economies such as Vietnam, where Canadian companies will find opportunities in sectors such as agri - food, education and training, information and communication technologies (ICT), clean tech and financial technology, as well as other services.

In January 2018, as part of the expanded initiatives, the company authorized additional costs to improve the operational efficiency of its thermal supply chain network in North America by closing its manufacturing facility in Toronto, Ontario, and to optimize its information technology infrastructure by migrating certain applications to the latest cloud technology platform.

Actual costs that may have been incurred if we had been a standalone company would depend on a number of factors, including the chosen organizational structure, what functions were outsourced or performed by employees and strategic decisions made in areas such as information technology and infrastructure.

The Information Technology Industry Council, a lobbying group for companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft, previously has rebuffed Trump's tariffs as «entirely counterproductive» — and stressed that the result would be higher prices on tech products that «penalize U.S. consumers.»

As I wrote several weeks ago, we believe mature information technology (IT) companies are a potential bright spot.

The joint research undertaken by the two companies will examine how blockchain, the technology at the basis of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, could be used for developing innovative cybersecurity solutions, such as secure transmission of information between services and supply chains, user authentication, critical devices and elements that run with no human intervention and additional solutions for the cyber challenges in a hyper - connected world.

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, a Toronto - headquartered luxury hospitality company, and Embassy Group, one of India's leading property developers, will open a new Four Seasons hotel and private residences later this year in Bengaluru, known as the information technology capital of India and one of the country's fastest growing cities.

The fund managers will look for companies concentrated in the sectors of information and communication technology, clean and energy technology, life sciences, as well as agriculture and biotech.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These Technology Readiness Assessments (TRAs) provide information on the product - level maturity or readiness (i.e., Technology Readiness Levels, or TRLs) to launch a company, as well as industry - level information on new technologies, research, and companies needed to support the market as a whole -LSB-...] The SciTech team has been working on these documents for more than a year, and we expect to have first versions done by the end of October.

As a pharmaceutical distributor and healthcare information technology company, McKesson Medical - Surgical provides systems for medical supply management, clinical workflow, practice management, pharmacy automation and care management to meet your supply needs.

* Correction, September 26, 2006: We originally referred to Knovel as a venture - capital firm instead of a science - and - technology information company.

The new policy aims to protect consumers by using the state's lucrative information technology contracts as leverage over internet companies.

A senior engineer with an Information and Communications Technology company, identified as Adebayo Akinwunmi, was on Sunday shot dead by suspected robbers.

He has worked as an information technology professional with several large private sector companies, and currently works in information technology with Queensland's Education Department.

In August 1988, he returned to Bari to join the Microelectronics Laboratory of Tecnopolis CSATA (now InnovaPuglia), a nonprofit organization supported by the regional government and the University of Bari to promote information and communication technologies and to serve as a company incubator.

That's when he was working in Geneva for the information - technology company Sun Microsystems, now Oracle, helping to spec out what was envisioned as a global network that by now would be tracking everything manufactured by anybody.

About 23 % of the money available in 2014 will go to projects aimed at boosting Europe's «industrial leadership» in areas such as space, information and communication technology, and biotechnology, with a special effort to boost the participation of small companies.

Furht is working with collaborators Hari Kalva, Ph.D., professor, Ankur Agarwal, Ph.D., associate professor, and Dingding Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at FAU, as well as with LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a leading technology provider of essential information and a partner company of FAU's CAKE.

Still, as explored in the first podcast on Global Trends in Technology, Nancy and the company's deep research reveals that customers are facing common challenges including huge pressures on productivity and being overwhelmed with information and regulatory complexity.

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