Microsoft hoped recent updates to its Dynamics AX 2012 ERP software would help it grab enterprise-level deals that would ordinarily be won by the likes of Oracle and SAP. To some degree, the strategy appears to be clicking. Cosmetics ...
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Google's decision to bring its Android and Chrome divisions together under Sundar Pichai should result in greater work between the two platforms, but Pichai first needs to rein in the fast expanding operating system and bring some order to ...
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Infor, the software industry's third-largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) application vendor after SAP and Oracle, has been building out its own underlying technology platform in a bid to gain more revenue as well as provide customers ...
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Oracle first announced its Social Relationship Management product family several months ago at OpenWorld, but has now taken steps to actually integrate the components of the product set, which it gained through a number of acquisitions over ...
Box is rolling out several new security features aimed at making its 150,000 business customers feel more confident in its cloud storage and file sharing service. The new capabilities address end users, devices and content. "Our high ...
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Oracle has laid in out in detail how it intends to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com in the highly competitive arena for next-generation marketing software. The vendor spent $871 million in December to acquire marketing automation ...
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Salesforce.com has quietly acquired a startup called EntropySoft, a maker of content management and integration software, in a move likely meant to bolster Salesforce.com's Chatterbox service. The acquisition was first reported late ...
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SAP's burgeoning portfolio of cloud-based applications has prompted it to make some changes to its PartnerEdge channel program. More than 500 partners who have relationships with SuccessFactors, the cloud human capital management (HCM) ...
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IDG News Service - SAP's flagship Business Suite enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can now run on top of the HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and ...
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NetSuite has acquired Point of Sale(POS)software vendor Retail Anywhere in a bid to flesh out its family of SuiteCommerce applications. NetSuite made the announcement Thursday.Terms were not disclosed. Retail Anywhere had already been a ...
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IDG News Service - Zoho continues to flesh out the feature set of its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) application, adding a new document library, advanced email filtering and location-aware mobile applications. The ...
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Salesforce.com is being sued by a customer who claims the CRM (customer relationship management) software vendor’s misrepresentations made their relationship go sour. Bray International, a valve manufacturer based in Houston, first ...
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Salesforce.com is being sued by a customer who claims the CRM software vendor's misrepresentations made their relationship go sour. Bray International, a valve manufacturer based in Houston, first licensed Salesforce.com's software in ...
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IDG News Service-Workday on Monday unveiled a new set of enhancements to its cloud-based ERP software aimed at winning business from large multinational companies. The announcement,made as Workday begins its Workday Rising user ...
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IBM, Epicor and other vendors could be eyeing a purchase of supply-chain software vendor JDA, analysts said Tuesday following a published report that the company was looking for suitors. The sale activities are "at an advanced stage," ...
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