Links 1/20/2014: Workday appoints former SAP exec to lead in Europe; Monetate teams with SAP's hybris on new offering







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TWC’s Marcus Stands Firm Amid Bids, Jabs (Multichannel News)


Workday appoints former SAP exec to lead European expansion (Computerworld UK)

Monetate Partners with SAP's hybris to Address Global Ecommerce and Multichannel Marketing Demands (PR Newswire)

Accenture’s ClientHouse buy shows there’s more room for cloud software in Europe (VentureBeat)
In addition to Salesforce products, ClientHouse sells and integrates Veeva CRM and QlikTech offerings.




Ellucian Acquires CampusIT to Accelerate Delivery of New Solutions (Ellucian Press Release)
Ellucian was formed through the merger of SunGard Higher Education with Datatel in 2012. It is now based in Fairfax, VA, though it still has at least a couple of hundred employees in the Philadelphia area according to its LinkedIn page.

202 tech startups reap Pennsylvania tax credits (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review)
You can see a complete list of tax credit awardees here (pdf)

Tax Break as a Not-So-Secret Weapon (New
York Times)


Phila.-area firms got $420M in venture funding in 2013 (Philadelphia Inquirer)



Vocera acquires mobile-enabled, medical alarms company mVisum for $3.5 million (Mobile Health News)

Glaser reflects on decade of health IT (Healthcare IT News)
John Glaser, a pioneer in health IT and electronic health records, is currently CEO of the Malvern-based Health Services Business Unit of Siemens Healthcare.



Dell in talks with IBM to buy Big Blue’s x86 server business
(Ars Technica)