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Article | 7/02/2013 Ex-partner charges Oracle with waging 'systematic attack' against third-party support
Former Oracle partner CedarCrestone is alleging the vendor has engaged in an "unlawful and systematic attack" against the third-party support market a...
Article | 5/02/2013 SAP payroll software woes plague electric utility for months
Electric utility National Grid is still trying to resolve problems with its recently implemented SAP payroll system that cropped up after Hurricane Sa...
Article | 31/01/2013 SAP to buy Ticket-Web, a CRM tool for promoters of sports and entertainment events
SAP plans to extend its CRM offering with the acquisition of Ticket-Web, a German specialist in online ticketing for sports and entertainment venues.
Article | 29/01/2013 Puerto Rican government agency claims Infor's negligence cost it $9 million
Infor is being sued by a Puerto Rican tax authority on grounds that its failure to maintain software used by the organization racked up US$9 million i...
Article | 25/01/2013 Senate to probe failed Air Force software project as lawmakers call for stop to IT waste
The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to investigate what happened with a massive, failed U.S. Air Force ERP (enterprise resource planning) projec...
Article | 17/01/2013 School district weighs options for struggling ERP software project
An Arizona school district is mulling over whether to continue working on a major software project, upgrade its legacy system or restart from scratch ...
Article | 11/01/2013 Marin County settles legal claims against Deloitte, SAP over software project
A long-running legal dispute between Marin County, California, Deloitte Consulting and SAP over a troubled software project has concluded in a legal s...
Article | 10/01/2013 SAP ports its Business Suite software to the HANA in-memory database
SAP's flagship Business Suite ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is now able to run on top of the vendor's HANA in-memory database, in a move...
Article | 3/01/2013 Microsoft, Accenture joint venture Avanade sued over alleged ERP project failure
A half-million lines of custom code wasn't enough to produce a viable Dynamics AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) system for point-of-sale and RFID...
Article | 11/12/2012 Oracle's Database Appliance certified for SAP software
Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance, which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata ...
Article | 4/12/2012 Infor acquires Orbis Global to boost its marketing software clout
Infor has scooped up marketing resource management vendor Orbis Global in a bid to flesh out the capabilities of its Epiphany marketing suite. Terms o...
Article | 3/12/2012 ERP: Oracle vs. SAP vs. The Upstarts
As 2012 comes to a close, the ERP software market's biggest players, Oracle and SAP, are seeing their long rivalry become a stalemate, while they face...
Article | 27/11/2012 Infor teams up with VMWare for virtualized ERP
Infor has teamed up with VMWare to help customers of its Infor10 LN ERP (enterprise resource planning) software run on VMWare's latest virtualization ...
Article | 16/11/2012 SAP certifies Business Suite for production use on Amazon Web Services
SAP Business Suite customers can now run the software in production form on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced this week during the Sapphire...
Article | 14/11/2012 Air Force scraps massive ERP project after racking up $1 billion in costs
The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap a major ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project after spending US$1 billion, concluding that finis...