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Article | 18/06/2013 Microsoft Dynamics ERP software now available on the Azure cloud
Microsoft is upping the stakes in the growing market for cloud-based ERP, with its Dynamics GP 2013 and NAV 2013 products now available for deployment...
Article | 18/06/2013 Open Data Center Alliance tackles Big Data analysis
The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about Cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they w...
Article | 12/06/2013 SAP wins key ruling in long-running patent battle with Versata
SAP has received a ruling that sets a legal landmark in patent law and could also prove favorable to its defense in a long-running intellectual-proper...
Article | 6/06/2013 SAP at work on Sentinel, an 'Amazon for Stocks'
SAP is at work on a new product called Sentinel that is supposed to be "nothing less than the Amazon for Stocks and the Facebook for Investors," accor...
Article | 6/06/2013 Gartner: BI software market growth rate slowed in 2012
The BI (business intelligence) software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after "a few historic banner years" of spending growth, due to difficult econo...
Article | 5/06/2013 SAP buys e-commerce vendor Hybris in strike back at Oracle, Salesforce.com
SAP is buying privately held Hybris in a bid to build out an e-commerce software offering that connects with customers across multiple "channels, devi...
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 | 21/05/2013 SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use
Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted ...
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 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 offers mobile device management for €1 per month on Amazon's cloud
A new cloud version of SAP's Afaria mobile device management software offers IT departments a more convenient way of controlling mobile devices.