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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...
Article | 14/12/2011 SAP spells out vision for HANA-driven software architecture
SAP executives provided new details about the company's plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its software a...
Article | 14/12/2011 Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10
In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars s...
Article | 13/12/2011 Serious bugs force SAP to put brakes on community site upgrade
SAP has abruptly put the brakes on a planned upgrade to its massive community network portal, which was set to be rolled out this month, due to a numb...
Article | 13/12/2011 SAP gets into the social analytics game with NetBase partnership
Taking a cue from rivals such as Salesforce.com, SAP on Monday announced a partnership under which it will resell and support social media analytics s...
Article | 8/12/2011 Auditor: Big Aussie SAP project behind schedule, over budget
A major SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project being conducted by the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities has hit...
Article | 7/12/2011 SuccessFactors acquiring Jobs2web days after SAP deal
Cloud-based human resources software vendor SuccessFactors said Tuesday it is acquiring Jobs2web for US$110 million, just days after <a href="http://w...