Bashar Yaish, a 10-year veteran technology sales, has joined Software AG as vice president for the Gulf region. The executive will head the team in Dubai tasked to expand the German software firm’s business and alliances in the Middle East, the company said Monday. Yaish brings with him more than …

General Electric has appointed Peter Lefkowitz chief privacy counsel, effective September 9, 2013. He previously served as vice president of privacy and security legal and chief privacy officer at Oracle where he worked closely with Oracle corporate security on privacy and security oversight and compliance, according to a GE statement. …

Deloitte has acquired New Zealand-based technology companies Asparona and Tango as part of the consulting firm’s growth strategy, Voxy reported Thursday. Citing a statement from Deloitte CEO Thomas Pippos, the website reports the two equity firms and more than 120 employees will be added to Deloitte. Matthew Hitch, Deloitte consulting lead, …

Kofax Plc has wrapped up $2.4 million in sales of accounts payable automation applications to four organizations. Four Kofax MarkView applications have been sold to a Canadian government agency, a Fortune 200 company, an athletic apparel manufacturer and a U.S.-based information technology and communications provider, Kofax said Tuesday. Howard Dratler, executive …

Savvis Inc. has appointed Ian Bryant, Eric McDougal and Nick Barley as vice presidents for advanced services, sales and global marketing respectively in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The three executives will work to grow the CenturyLink company’s cloud, hosting and colocation services across EMEA, Savvis said Tuesday. …

Greg Gardner serves as chief architect for government and defense solutions for NetApp’s U.S. public sector team. Prior to NetApp, Gardner was deputy chief information officer for the Intelligence Community where he assisted the IC CIO in developing the information sharing and management systems that enable our integrated, agile intelligence …

John Drayton has been appointed to lead VMware operations in New Zealand and will oversee the company’s government and financial services offerings, Reseller New Zealand reported Tuesday. The 23-year industry veteran recently served as a Southern regional sales manager at Hewlett-Packard and succeeds Tim Dacombe-Bird who joined Amazon Web Services as …

Kofax has won a $1.2 million contract to automate and consolidate the accounts processing systems of an international logistics firm that handles approximately 3.5 million bills and financial statements annually. The customer expects the transition to improve the productivity of its global operations in about 200 nations, Kofax said Thursday. “The …

Oren Sprague serves as director of business development for NCR Government Systems, a role he began in February 2013. In this position, Sprague oversees BD for NCR’s federal government sector. Earlier in his career, he gained experience in BD by bringing a pre-IPO company, XYLAN, into new data telecommunications markets.  His other BD endeavors …

Brett Davis, formerly senior director of business development at Oracle, has joined Deloitte as general manager of the firm’s newly-launched health informatics business unit. The unit will provide analytics services and products to healthcare providers, researchers and medical manufacturers, Deloitte said Monday. Davis will be responsible for expanding the business’ portfolio and …

Dell has released a new software designed to help developers and database administrators connect with peers and subject matter experts through the Toad World user community. Toad for Oracle works to help database professionals gain access to an intelligence platform and address coding errors and other database problems, Dell said …

Keith Block, formerly executive vice president of North American sales and consulting at Oracle, has been appointed vice chairman of the board of directors and president of Salesforce.com. The 30-year industry veteran will oversee organizations responsible for consulting services, customer support and worldwide sales in his new position, Salesforce said …

Andrea Greenan and Jessica Nielsen have been appointed vice president of communications for Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business area and information systems-global solutions division, respectively. Nielsen and Greenan will be responsible for communications strategies in their organizations and will report to Jennifer Whitlow, vice president of corporate communications, the company …

Accenture has won a multi-year contract to work with energy firm SSE as the utility seeks to improve marketing campaigns and field service productivity for its retail metering business. SSE aims to deploy more than 9 million smart meters by 2019 as part of a retail transformation program, Accenture said …

A majority of chief financial officers have put more emphasis on technology t0 help meet their expanding strategic responsibilities and roles as they work to grow their companies and save money, according to an Accenture Plc report. A joint report by Accenture and Oracle Corp., “The CFO as Catalyst for Change,” showed …