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Article | 24/05/2013 Oracle, managed services provider to settle suit over third-party support

Oracle and managed services provider ServiceKey have come to a proposed settlement of an intellectual-property lawsuit Oracle filed against the compan...

Article | 24/05/2013 SAP shakes up development organization

SAP has abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executiv...

Article | 22/05/2013 CIOs need to rethink their roles, MIT symposium panelists say

By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy.

Article | 22/05/2013 Salesforce.com aims its customer service, social monitoring apps at governments

Salesforce.com is hoping to set the standard for how government bodies deliver online services to citizens using mobile devices.

Article | 20/05/2013 Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up'

Yahoo has confirmed widespread reports that it will acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr, and also promised not to "screw it up." The deal is w...

Article | 16/05/2013 SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's...

Article | 15/05/2013 SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps

Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of c...

Article | 15/05/2013 SAP unveils 'consumer-friendly' Fiori app suite

SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoi...

Article | 14/05/2013 NetSuite to increase focus on ERP for manufacturers

Capitalizing on apparent demand from customers, NetSuite is adding new capabilities aimed at manufacturers to its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource...

Article | 14/05/2013 SAP hopes its software can score with sports teams

SAP is hoping to win points with professional sports teams by showing how its HANA in-memory database, analytics, mobile software and other technologi...

Article | 14/05/2013 SAP says HANA will power all Cloud applications

SAP's HANA Cloud Platform, consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services, will even...

Article | 10/05/2013 SAP expands reach of app store, looks to improve reviews

You know you're not in iTunes anymore when the app you're eyeing has a US$1,050 price tag, but SAP is nonetheless expanding its online shopping experi...

Article | 9/05/2013 What to expect at SAP's Sapphire

SAP's Sapphire conference kicks off next week in Orlando, setting the stage for the company to sell customers on its visions for cloud-based applicati...

Article | 8/05/2013 NetSuite buys OrderMotion, fleshes out e-commerce portfolio

NetSuite is beefing up its cloud-based ERP software's order-processing features by acquiring OrderMotion, a move that could strengthen its appeal to c...

Article | 7/05/2013 SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service

SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.