Citrix has bought mobile device management (MDM) company Zenprise in an attempt to boost its mobile capabilities. The price Citrix paid for Zenprise has not been disclosed, but sources suggest Citrix could have offered up to $50m for ...
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Citrix saw profits slump by 15% in the third quarter to $78.2m (GBP49m), while sales increased by 13% to $641.4m. The results follows those of rival VMware, which also saw a double-digit drop in profits of 12% to $157m, while sales ...
Tags: Citrix, VMware, Angela Eager, TechMarketView, desktop
Several years ago, SAP introduced enhancement packs, which were supposed to provide an easier and less painful way to upgrade its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software. Executives extolled how customers could add new functionality ...
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Many IT organizations have neglected their help or service desks for years. But that's not the case at Land O'Lakes Inc., a company whose products include butter. When Barry Libenson, the CIO at Land O'Lakes Inc., a cooperative with 9,000 ...
Tags: IT organizations, Land O'Lakes Inc., service desk, Lotus Notes app, Cloud
The double-dip recession is offsetting some of the concerns associated with cloud-based services as the global cloud industry is set to be worth an extra $2.2bn before the end of the year, according to KPMG. Concerns around security, ...
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EMI Music Publishing, has deployed a cloud-based IT service management software-as-a-service (SaaS) from Sunrise Software to support 900 users in 55 countries around the world. SaaS service management product Sostenuto took one week to ...
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People will spend more than £1,200 to buy their own devices, which questions the need for IT departments to continue purchasing and supporting desktop and laptop PCs. In a recent study by analyst Forrester, 33% of respondents ...
Tags: desktop, laptop PCs, self-service app, smartphones, VPN software
Welcome Break Group, which runs UK motorway service stations and hotels, is starting a project to deploy SuccessFactors, the cloud-based human resources (HR) system from SAP. The SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Suite will provide ...
Network World - The software as a service market is still in a state of flux and before SaaS can reach its full potential, service providers must overcome integration, customization and brokerage issues. Gartner pegs total worldwide ...
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Dell announced Monday that it is buying Quest Software for $2.4 billion, following weeks of speculation over its interest in the infrastructure software vendor. The deal is expected to close later this year. Quest's products include the ...
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PINC Solutions and one of its customers selected as "100 Great Supply Chain Projects" in 2012 by Leading Business Magazine. ALAMEDA, CA, June 12, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- PINC Solutions, North America's leading provider of supply chain ...
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Computerworld - The idea that public cloud-based services will radically transform in-house IT operations is ever more evident at Netflix. Netflix no longer wants to run a data center in support of its in-house corporate IT services. It ...
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SAP could be close to announcing the general availability of its foray into the PaaS (platform-as-a-service) market, NetWeaver Cloud, which will go up against rival offerings from the likes of Oracle and Salesforce.com. NetWeaver Cloud ...
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Oracle touted what it called strong early adoption of its next-generation Fusion Applications on Monday, but also discussed how it will continue to support and add new features to the company's other business software lines, such as ...
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Oracle on Monday gave attendees of the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco a deeper look at its new 12c database and Exadata X3 machine, which were initially announced Sunday by CEO Larry Ellison . The key feature of 12c, which is set ...
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