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Article | 30/04/2011 SAP project woes impact Ingram Micro's profits
Problems with an SAP software implementation in Australia dragged down technology distributor Ingram Micro's first-quarter profits, the company said t...
Article | 28/04/2011 SAP Q1 revenue up, but profits growth slow
SAP saw revenue rise by 21 percent in the quarter ended March 31, with double-digit growth in all regions driven by increased software business from p...
Article | 26/04/2011 Lawson accepts $2 billion takeover bid by Infor
Lawson Software has agreed to be purchased by an Infor affiliate GGC Software Holdings for roughly $US2 billion, the company announced Tuesday.
Article | 26/04/2011 Infor-Lawson deal may be close to done
Infor may be about to announce an acquisition of Lawson Software, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222076/infors_offer_for_lawso...
Article | 26/04/2011 Vendors roll ERP for medical marijuana dispensaries
You know an industry has reached critical mass when vendors start developing software for it, and that time has come for medical marijuana.
Article | 21/04/2011 Oracle goes after Workday, SuccessFactors with Fusion HCM
Oracle is getting ready to challenge SaaS human resources vendors like SuccessFactors and Workday with Fusion HCM (human capital management), one comp...
Article | 18/04/2011 Key SaaS software executive leaving SAP
SAP executive John Wookey, who was charged with developing a SaaS (software as a service) strategy for large enterprises, is leaving the vendor after ...
Article | 13/04/2011 Microsoft's cloud ERP plans get mixed reactions
Microsoft's announcement this week that it would begin offering its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) software via the Azure cloud platform ...
Article | 11/04/2011 Microsoft putting ERP in the Azure cloud
Microsoft is moving its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to its Azure cloud platform, the company announced Monday at the Conv...
Article | 5/04/2011 Equity firm to buy Epicor, Activant in $US2 billion deal
Private equity firm Apax Partners is buying Epicor and Activant in a deal that will create one of the world's largest ERP (enterprise resource plannin...
Article | 4/04/2011 Lawson aims customers toward the Amazon cloud
Lawson Software is hoping to entice its customer base to deploy their applications in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and has a marquee customer...
Article | 1/04/2011 Infor intros SharePoint-based UI for ERP apps
Infor is now shipping a new user interface utilizing Microsoft SharePoint that provides customers with a "consumer-grade" experience, tying together c...
Article | 31/03/2011 Auditors: ERP software woes could cost Idaho millions
Idaho may be out millions of dollars due to problems with a new system for processing Medicaid claims, according to a legislative auditor's report <a ...
Article | 29/03/2011 NetSuite expands special reseller deal to UK
NetSuite hopes to entice U.K. VARs (value-added resellers) that may now be aligned with rivals like Microsoft into selling its cloud-based ERP (enterp...
Article | 19/03/2011 State pays ACS US$7.25M to settle software project suit
Minnesota's Department of Human Services has agreed to pay ACS US$7.25 million to settle a lawsuit the systems integrator brought against it in connec...