Stories by Chris Kanaracus

Article | 25/05/2012 Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood
Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company s...
Article | 24/05/2012 Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial
During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as wit...
Article | 23/05/2012 CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously
CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, acc...
Article | 23/05/2012 SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion
SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.
Article | 22/05/2012 SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion
SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.
Article | 22/05/2012 SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight
Due to incorrect information provided by the vendor, the story "SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight," posted to the wire on May 16, ...
Article | 22/05/2012 Upcoming Salesforce.com release adds real-time chat capabilities
Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat functionali...
Article | 17/05/2012 SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight
SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednes...
Article | 16/05/2012 NetSuite rolls out commerce-as-a-service platform
NetSuite is going up against vendors such as Demandware in the market for cloud-based e-commerce platforms, announcing a new product, SuiteCommerce, d...
Article | 15/05/2012 SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal
SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data int...
Article | 15/05/2012 SAP rolls out new mobile apps, boosts HTML5, iOS, Android support
SAP on Monday unveiled a series of mobile applications covering areas such as expense management and e-learning, as well as improved support for iOS a...
Article | 12/05/2012 SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services
SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services, the compa...
Article | 11/05/2012 Options grow for third-party SAP application support
The nascent market for third-party SAP application support gained another player on Thursday, with Spinnaker Support announcing a service that will pl...
Article | 11/05/2012 Ex-Oracle, SAP exec Wookey to lead 'most' application development at Salesforce.com
Power has shifted within Salesforce.com's development organization, with John Wookey taking on more responsibility at the cloud software vendor as ano...
Article | 10/05/2012 Salesforce.com's Heroku rolls out new cloud database options
Salesforce.com's Heroku division this week rolled out two entry-level tiers for its Postgres-based cloud database service, hoping to cater to applicat...