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Article | 15/02/2011 HP buying Vertica for analytics
Hewlett-Packard announced Monday it plans to buy data warehousing and analytics vendor Vertica for an undisclosed sum.
Article | 9/02/2011 Oracle PeopleSoft payroll problems still peeve police
Problems with an Oracle PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) system that have resulted in faulty paychecks going out to police officers in Fo...
Article | 9/02/2011 SAP preps 'huge' BI upgrade
SAP is gearing up to launch Business Objects 4.0, its biggest BI (business intelligence) release in roughly three years, later this month at an event ...
Article | 7/02/2011 SAP's Business ByDesign gets software development kit
SAP on Monday announced the 2.6 release of its SaaS (software-as-a-service) suite Business ByDesign, which contains a highly anticipated SDK (software...
Article | 4/02/2011 SAP to fight Oracle's $1.3 billion jury award
SAP will ask a California court to reduce the $US1.3 billion jury award it was hit with last November in Oracle's TomorrowNow lawsuit against the comp...
Article | 3/02/2011 County alleges SAP, Deloitte engaged in racketeering
The government of Marin County, California, is suing two SAP subsidiaries and Deloitte Consulting, alleging they "engaged in a pattern of racketeering...
Article | 2/02/2011 SAP, Microsoft try again with Duet Enterprise
SAP and Microsoft announced Tuesday what some observers see as a reboot of Duet, the strategy first formed by the companies in 2005 to tie SAP's ERP (...
Article | 1/02/2011 EMC's Greenplum offers 'big data' tools at no charge
EMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining tools for working with large...
Article | 26/01/2011 TomorrowNow litigation drags SAP Q4 profits down
SAP saw revenue rise 27 percent in the fourth quarter but profits dropped by more than a third due to increased provisions linked to litigation with O...
Article | 19/01/2011 SAP reorganises and shuffles its senior execs
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/topics/sap/">SAP</a> has announced a significant rejig of its senior directors to accompany a restructuring of...
Article | 15/01/2011 Wall Street Beat: Software to drive IT growth
Intel and SAP results and various forecasts issued this week suggest that while 2010 was a recovery year for just about all sectors of IT, enterprise ...
Article | 14/01/2011 SAP Q4 preliminary results show jump in software revenue
SAP on Thursday reported preliminary results for the fourth quarter and year ending Dec. 31 that showed a strong uptick in software revenue, spurred i...
Article | 13/01/2011 SAP buying security software, other assets from SECUDE
SAP is acquiring software and related assets from its partner SECUDE in order to provide improved security for its customer base, the company said Wed...
Article | 13/01/2011 New worldwide channel chief at SAP
There's been a change in the channel leadership at enterprise software vendor SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) with the departure this week of Pat Hume, the worldwi...
Article | 13/01/2011 ERP investments to slow in 2011
The number of companies planning to invest in their ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems will drop slightly this year, according to a Forrester ...