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Article | 24/06/2009 Jive, SAP partner on 'social BI'

SAP and enterprise social-networking vendor Jive said Tuesday they have formed an agreement that will see SAP's BusinessObjects BI OnDemand software i...

Article | 24/06/2009 'Enterprise Facebook' enjoys major adoption

If large companies are looking for evidence that a social networking strategy can work, Booz Allen Hamilton may have given them some.

Article | 23/06/2009 Infor rolls out new 'Flex' upgrade policy

ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor on Monday is announcing the Infor Flex, a program it says will make it logistically and financially ea...

Article | 22/06/2009 Enterprise 2.0: vendors abound but what about buyers?

A gaggle of vendors, consultants and end users are set to converge at a Boston hotel Monday for this year's Enterprise 2.0 conference, but it's unclea...

Article | 17/06/2009 NetBooks pushes revamped small-business app suite

Startup NetBooks is making a second run at the nation's millions of small-business users with a new company name and revamped on-demand suite.

Article | 16/06/2009 Salesforce.com offering no-charge access to Force.com

Salesforce.com is hoping to drive more interest from corporate developers and ISVs in its Force.com development platform by offering limited, no-cost ...

Article | 15/06/2009 Infor to buy SoftBrands for $80 million

ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor and its investor, Golden Gate Capital, have formed a holding company to buy SoftBrands in a US$80 mill...

Article | 9/06/2009 Greenplum spins 'Enterprise Data Cloud' vision

Data warehousing vendor Greenplum on Monday rolled out its "Enterprise Data Cloud" initiative, a long-term product and methodology strategy meant to f...

Article | 9/06/2009 SaaS HR vendor lands global deal with Siemens

SuccessFactors, maker of SaaS (software as a service) applications for employee performance and talent management, announced Monday that it has landed...

Article | 4/06/2009 'Google-like' tool aids network security

Network administrators and security specialists have long had tools and software for analyzing the streams of traffic that course through company syst...

Article | 19/05/2009 Epicor ERP project sparks customer lawsuit

A stone-and-tile company is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Epicor over a system it says never worked as intended or promised, accordi...

Article | 19/05/2009 Amazon beefs up EC2 with new enterprise-appealing tools

New auto-scaling, monitoring and load-balancing tools for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud are now in public beta, the company said Monday.

Article | 11/05/2009 Sun shareholders file suit to block sale to Oracle

Sun Microsystems shareholders filed three separate lawsuits last month in an effort to halt the company's pending sale to Oracle, according to a filin...

Article | 7/05/2009 Open Text acquiring Vignette

Open Text said Wednesday it plans to acquire fellow content management tools provider Vignette for about US$310 million in cash and stock. The deal is...

Article | 6/05/2009 SAP-IBM's Alloy application being pushed to BlackBerry

BlackBerry users will one day be able to use Alloy, the application jointly developed by SAP and IBM that allows users to access information from SAP'...