DETROIT - Compuware Corp. Wednesday announced a new generation performance analytics system, Outage Analyzer, which provides real-time visualizations and alerts of outages in third-party Web services to Web, mobile and cloud applications. Compuware is providing this new service free of charge. Using big data technologies and a proprietary anomaly detection engine, Outage Analyzer correlates more
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced it has received four Golden Bridge Awards an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring best companies in every major industry for Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns. Silver in
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Thursday announced a second year of financial assistance to Michigan small and medium businesses for export-related activities through the Pure Michigan export incentive program. ?My recent trip to China reaffirmed that foreign countries offer new markets, distributorships and other business partnerships to Michigan companies. The Pure Michigan export
DETROIT ? The Michigan Economic Development Corp. has awarded Challenge Detroit a $230,000 grant to help fund programming initiatives for the national initiative focused on revitalizing the Detroit region by retaining and attracting innovative leaders who will bring their intellectual capital and talents to the City. ?The mission of the MEDC is to help businesses
LANSING - A new forecast published by the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan projects continued slow job growth in Michigan through 2014, by which time the state may have recouped just one-third of the jobs it lost during the decade-long recession. The forecast said that after job growth at a
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University announced it is developing two new degree programs for its College of Technology - a Master of Science in Technology Management and a Bachelor of Science in Digital Forensics. ?We are excited to be developing these new programs to help Davenport students get where the world is going in the
TALLAHASSEE - Hackers have accessed the confidential information of nearly 300,000 students, employees, and faculty in a massive security breach at a Florida college, officials announced. The breach was first thought to have been isolated to employees at Northwest Florida State College but may involve student records from across the state, education officials said. More
STERLING HEIGHTS -The SBA, along with the Detroit Regional Chamber, and the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center, will host a ?Meet the Lenders? event Oct. 23 at the Macomb Velocity Center. ?We?re pleased to collaborate with the Detroit Regional Chamber as well as our SBA funded partners to give entrepreneurs a chance to
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Institute has hired two staff members to expand the organization?s capacity to attract philanthropic support for new programs in biomedical research and science education. Patrick Placzkowski joins the organization as Director of Development for Van Andel Research Institute, the cornerstone of West Michigan?s life science and biomedical research corridor. VARI
WASHINGTON DC - Michigan's tax climate has seen a substantial improvement in 2012, leaping to 7th from 49th in corporate rankings and to 12th from 18th overall, according to the just released Tax Foundation?s 2013 State Business Tax Climate Index. The Index represents the tax climate of each state as of July 1, 2012, the