SAP has announced a new family of products that marry its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software with the Sybase IQ analytic database and include specialised business content for use by various industries. The four offerings ...
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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 ...
SAP has turned heads in recent years with a number of high-profile acquisitions, scooping up SuccessFactors, Sybase and Ariba for more than US$13 billion collectively. But company executives also maintain they intend to increase revenues ...
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SAP is set to unveil a line of cloud-based EPM (enterprise performance management) applications that run on top of its HANA in-memory database platform. EPM software is a subset of the broader BI (business intelligence) market, honing in ...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, SAP, database platform
Oracle is expanding its support for R, the open-source language for statistical analysis, the company announced Friday. New features include R ports for the Solaris and AIX OSes, adding to existing support for Linux and Windows ...
SAP is closing in on 600 customers for its HANA in-memory database platform and is also making adjustments to enterprise edition pricing, an executive has said. There are now more than 500 total customers for HANA, which was released ...
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SAP is aware of widespread user discontent over the complexity involved with licensing rules and pricing for its software,and is working to remedy the situation,co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said in an interview Wednesday. Earlier this ...
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The Oracle OpenWorld Conference 2012 opened today at the Moscone Exhibition Centre, San Francisco. The five day affair began today with a keynote from CEO Larry Ellison who began by thanking the company’s 390,000 customers across the ...
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Consumer goods giant Unilever is looking at how it can optimise its global operations using SAP’s HANA in-memory database. The company has been consolidating its SAP systems over the past 20 years and now runs 4 regional systems. ...
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IDG News Service-Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance,which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata machine aimed at small and medium-size businesses. All SAP products ...
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SAP has developed an update for its HANA in-memory database that will enable it to"power mission-critical transactional and analytical applications in one platform,"the vendor announced Wednesday during the Tech Ed and Sapphire conferences ...
Tags: SAP, HANA in-memory database, service pack stack 5, SPS5
SAP has introduced its first cloud-based financial application for the enterprise, which provides real-time data based on the company's Hana in-memory database system. The product is part of SAP's wider One Cloud strategy, which brings ...
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SAP is tying the HANA in-memory database to its CRM (customer relationship management) software and other applications, creating a package that will "allow organizations to revolutionize the way they engage with their customers," the ...
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SAP on Tuesday is expected to showcase how it will tie together its business applications with the cloud-based business network it gained through the acquisition of Ariba during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. The Ariba ...
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IDG News Service-SAP is close to having 600 customers for its HANA in-memory database platform and is also making some adjustments to enterprise edition pricing,an executive said during a webcast event on Wednesday. There are now more ...
Tags: SAP, HANA, enterprise edition