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Article | 9/11/2012 Manufacturer sues IBM over SAP project 'disaster'
IBM has been slapped with a multimillion dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer, Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges that IBM lied ...
Article | 31/10/2012 SAP goes after Salesforce.com with new social software products, strategy
SAP on Wednesday made a series of announcements meant to define itself as a major player in the enterprise social software market with a superior appr...
Article | 30/10/2012 Sybase chief John Chen leaving SAP
Sybase CEO John Chen is leaving SAP, roughly two-and-a-half years after SAP acquired the company for its database and mobility technologies, SAP annou...
Article | 26/10/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech shares tread water in wake of mixed earnings
Tech stocks were flat Friday afternoon after earnings announcements from IT vendors this week and a government economic report offered glimpses of goo...
Article | 26/10/2012 SAP reveals policies, pricing for cloud integrations
SAP has laid out a set of pricing and policies for tying together its array of cloud-based and on-premises applications, providing some options at no ...
Article | 26/10/2012 Show will go on for SAP user conferences in Spain
SAP now says it will proceed with two major user conferences set for Madrid next month, after saying earlier this week that it was weighing its option...
Article | 25/10/2012 SAP aims to be the Apple of enterprise mobility
A home improvement retail chain can use an app running on an iPad to help design a customer's home, check inventory for the products, give a cost esti...
Article | 24/10/2012 SAP co-CEO: We're working to fix software licensing, pricing complexity
SAP is aware of widespread user discontent over the complexity involved with licensing rules and pricing for its software, and is working to remedy th...
Article | 24/10/2012 Labor strikes could impact upcoming SAP user conferences in Madrid
Labor strikes planned for November in Portugal, Spain and Greece may force the delay or cancellation of SAP's Sapphire Now and Tech Ed conferences in ...
Article | 24/10/2012 SAP reports strong third quarter, revises 2012 outlook
SAP reported Wednesday double-digit revenue growth in the third quarter, benefiting from a strong performance in the Americas and double-digit growth ...
Article | 23/10/2012 Internal SAP document reveals potential plans for next-gen BI, 'HANA Explorer'
SAP is working on a number of potential next-generation BI (business intelligence) technologies meant to exploit the company's HANA in-memory database...
Article | 22/10/2012 How to make an SAP enhancement pack upgrade 'silent'
Several years ago, SAP introduced enhancement packs, which were supposed to provide a much easier and less painful way to upgrade its ERP (enterprise ...
Article | 23/12/2011 RightNow shareholders approve US$1.5 billion sale to Oracle
Oracle's US$1.5 billion purchase of cloud software vendor RightNow Technologies took another step forward on Thursday as a vast majority of RightNow s...
Article | 21/12/2011 SAP, Google gearing up Google Apps, Business ByDesign integration
SAP and Google executives on Tuesday provided a preview of the companies' plans to tie their respective cloud-based business applications together, bu...
Article | 16/12/2011 Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software
Salesforce.com announced Thursday it will acquire cloud-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software mark...