While"shrink-wrapped"big data analysis solutions offered by the likes of SAP and Oracle will"stimulate imaginations",they will soon give way to superior third-party products that display"greater levels of innovation",cloud infrastructure ...
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The UK's Top 50 IT Training Providers league table has been unveiled for 2012. The top ten training companies included QA, Skillsoft, IBM, and SAP. The list, compiled by training consultancy Pardo Fox, ranks the UK's top performing ...
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Warwickshire-based utility company Severn Trent Water has implemented a SAP business intelligence solution, and taken the opportunity to decommision a mainframe of a type it had been running since the 1980s. Severn Trent Water CTO William ...
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SAP has agreed to pay fierce rival Oracle a minimum of$306m(GBP196.6m)in partial damages over copyright infringement,but the total settlement could be as much as$426m(GBP273.8m). The amount includes the$120m(GBP77m)that Oracle said it had ...
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HP has appointed consumer health firm Kimberly-Clark's CIO Ramón F.Baez(pictured)as its new senior vice-president and global chief information officer. Baez will start on 20 August and report to John Hinshaw,who is executive vice ...
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HP has won its lawsuit against Oracle over the software company's decision to discontinue development of its products on Itanium. Further reading HP sues Oracle over support for Intel Itanium processor HP refreshes its Itanium server ...
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Six London councils are undergoing an Oracle shared services implementation, in a move expected to save £18m over four years. The London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Lambeth, Lewisham, Havering and Croydon will be ...
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Swiss banking group UBS has rolled out Oracle's Fusion human resources (HR) application to 65,000 staff in 50 countries across the world. The bank has implemented Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) in its software-as-a-service ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft last week warned IT administrators that critical vulnerabilities in code licensed from Oracle could give attackers access to Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 systems. Oracle patched the vulnerabilities ...
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IDG News Service - With the latest release of its Tuxedo transaction processing server (TPC), Oracle is hoping to lure mainframe users onto the cloud. Moving a mainframe application to an Oracle Exalogic system, where it would run on the ...
Oracle is hoping to differentiate its cloud CRM(customer relationship management)software from that sold by rivals such as Salesforce.com with a new set of industry-specific capabilities. Oracle CRM On Demand Release 20,which was ...
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Oracle is going after users of Microsoft's SQL Server with a new tool for migrating data from SQL Server to its own MySQL database, the vendor announced Wednesday. The tool has been built into Oracle's MySQL Workbench administration ...
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SAP's revenue for the second quarter grew 18 percent over the same quarter last year to AA!3.9 billion(US$4.9 billion)following record software revenue of over AA!1 billion,it reported on Tuesday. The business software company in ...
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SAP's cloud business is growing thanks to the acquisition of online HR software provider SuccessFactors, according to the company's latest financial results. Last December SAP acquired SuccessFactors for $3.4bn, as a key part of SAP's ...
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