Oracle's long-awaited 12c database is now available for download,according to the company's official website. Download links for the product were available on the site as of late Tuesday. While it wasn't immediately clear when Oracle ...
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Software giant Oracle and cloud CRM company Salesforce.com will announce a new alliance next week that will see the two companies "unite" their respective clouds. "Larry and I both agree we need to unite our clouds," said Marc Benioff, ...
Oracle hasn’t even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow, 12.1c, which apparently will be Oracle’s most direct response yet to SAP’s ...
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Against a backdrop of market tumult, enterprise software companies this week reported mixed quarterly results. Though Red Hat reported a robust quarter, Oracle revenue flatlined and Tibco's sales and profit declined year over year. ...
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Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue was flat at $10.9 billion, while profits rose 10% $3.8 billion, as the company reported strong growth in sales of software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions and "engineered systems" like Exadata. But ...
Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership on Monday, one of a "startling series" of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised next week around the Oracle Database 12c. Oracle will be announcing next week ...
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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 on its Azure service. The launch, announced Tuesday, gives customers another option for ...
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Despite the hype, only a tiny proportion of firms have moved towards cloud email or cloud office systems, says analyst firm Gartner. There have been a steady flow of headlines about large organisations adopting cloud-based ...
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Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you're using public cloud services, it's time to ...
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The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, is on the verge of signing a new contract for IT service management (ITSM) software with ServiceNow - as long as the vendor provides enough visibility to ensure that CERN will not be ...
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Software giant SAP has held talks in the last few weeks to acquire Jive Software - but decided not to buy the company, according to sources. Jive makes social applications for businesses including SAP, and has a market value of more than ...
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By now, it’s become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy. But while that sentiment remains true, technology trends, generational shifts in the workforce and changing demands from end users are forcing ...
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Paul Adams, the designer behind the Google+ social networking site, who subsequently moved to Facebook, has quit the company for start-up Intercom. Adams had been central to the original (much criticised) design of Google+ and has spent ...
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By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy. But while that sentiment remains true, technology trends, generational shifts in the workforce and changing demands from end users are forcing CIOs to ...
Tags: CIOs, Computer Products, role changes
Dairy.com, a US-based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, has completed the acquisition of Blimling and Associates and its two sister companies, which are involved in dairy market analysis, research, and consulting. Blimling and ...
Tags: Software, Agriculture