RedPrairie is merging with fellow supply-chain software vendor JDA in a deal worth roughly $1.9 billion, the companies announced Thursday, just days after reports surfaced that JDA had put itself up for sale. The deal is expected to close ...
IDG News Service - SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, which said that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. "We recently spent ...
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IDG News Service - IBM has been slapped with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges that IBM lied about the suitability of an SAP-based software package it sells in order ...
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Oracle on Monday said it has agreed to acquire SelectMinds, a maker of "social talent sourcing software," in a bid to flesh out the capabilities it gained through this year's US$1.9 billion acquisition of Taleo. Terms of the deal, which ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard's bombshell revelation that it would take a $8.8 billion non-cash writedown after allegedly discovering major accounting fraud related to its Autonomy business unit has rocked the tech world. But the ...
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IDG News Service - As expected, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Sunday unveiled a souped-up version of its Exadata database machine that will allow customers to run all of their databases in-memory, providing what Ellison termed blazing ...
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IDG News Service-Corporate boards are prioritizing IT spending as highly as investments in sales operations,according to research announced Monday by analyst firm Gartner. IT and sales were tied as the top two priorities among 175 board ...
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IDG News Service-Mobility,cloud and in-memory computing are emerging as the top trends in the enterprise space today and in the coming years,says SAP at a recent forum. "We see that innovation and speed are increasing ...
Some 20 startups have inked commercial deals with SAP that will see them run production applications with the HANA in-memory database on Amazon Web Services, SAP announced Thursday during the Tech Ed and Sapphire conferences in Madrid. In ...
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MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI(business intelligence)software platform,covering areas such as visual data-exploration and the open-source Hadoop data-processing framework,during the MicroStrategy World ...
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Windows 8 might, or might not, prove to be a big hit with enterprise customers. But SAP is betting it will become an important platform in workplaces and figures Windows 8 tablets will outpace Android tablets, an SAP executive said ...
Leading global configure, price, quote (CPQ) system chosen by online IT infrastructure provider to streamline sales processes worldwide. Cameleon CPQ chosen to make the sales and customer experience better and more efficient. Cameleon ...
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Leading French mutual insurance company with more than 3 million members chooses Cameleon Software for its offers management system. Cameleon Software, announced today that the MGEN Group, the leading French mutual insurance company for ...
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DUBLIN, IRELAND, August 01, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SoftCo, a global developer of business process automation (BPA) and document management solutions, today automation (BPA) and document management solutions, today announced the ...
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Multinational companies are spending large sums on corporate virtual private networks(VPNs)to make their business-critical applications secure and available,but still using them for more mundane tasks,such as browsing the web or checking ...