AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, which provides the manufacturing ERP software called Plex Online, Tuesday announced that it had recurring revenue growth of 28 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared with the same quarter in 2009. Total revenue grew 18 percent quarter over quarter. The company also added eight new customers and continued
LANSING - Community colleges would not see their funding increase, but it wouldn't fall either under the budget plan approved Tuesday by the House Appropriations Community Colleges Subcommittee. The subcommittee replaced the 3.1 percent the Senate had cut from the budget (SB 1151 ), but it did not specify a revenue source beyond the general
LANSING - Crowded into three levels of the Capitol rotunda, transportation funding advocates on Tuesday announced that over the last three months, they have collected 5,000 signatures on a petition that urges lawmakers to increase taxes in order to restore road, bridge and public transportation funding. Truck drivers, local and state lawmakers and hundreds of
BIRMINGHAM ? Last month's hearing on the nominations of Keith Alexander to head CYBERCOM (and Admiral Winnfield to head NORAD and NORTHCOM) were the first time that operational responsibilities of CYBERCOM have been discussed in a public forum. The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin (D Michigan) began by posing three scenarios
BIRMINGHAM - Scenario planning is an important tool in the realm of cyber security. Stakeholder teams are assembled to create plausible scenarios of possible future threats. Repercussions are predicted to help quantify risk and justify mitigating investments in technology and changes to policy and operations. Here are several cyber security scenarios. The scary thing is,
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm's signing of bills Friday banning text messaging while driving on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" might not have been as wild as when Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch, but it certainly qualified as one of the more unconventional bill signing ceremonies in recent memory. The theme of Winfrey's Friday episode
SOUTHFIELD - Sandeep Chandra, Research Analyst at Ford Motor Company, will demonstrate how to do sidejacking - the most dangerous of all cyber attacks that target personal information, credentials, bank accounts and social networking accounts ? at the May 20 meeting of Motor City ISSA. Victims of these Man-In-The-Middle attacks are completely oblivious to these
ANN ARBOR - ForeSee Results has hired Walter Rothschild ? formerly head of marketing and product strategy at R.L. Polk - as Chief Marketing Officer, a new position created to help the company advance strategically in 2010 and beyond. The addition of Rothschild strengthens and expands ForeSee Results' senior management and leadership team as the
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, provider of the No. 1 rated ERP software for manufacturers, announced it will host the annual PowerPlex User Conference May 17?19 at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn. The theme of PowerPlex 2010, Accelerating out of the Downturn, focuses on capitalizing on new growth opportunities and improving efficiencies and profit margins.
BUCHANAN - The principals of Precept Partners, an Internet technology consultancy, announced the launch of its new NetNitroX package of integrated analysis, design and marketing services. "Our NetNitroX solution has been distilled from everything we've learned generating over a hundred million dollars of revenue online," said Managing Partner Stephen Antisdel. "It's a proprietary combination of