2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
Tags: cloud computing, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, DBaas
Steve Evans sits down with the head of Google's enterprise business to talk about social, mobile and cloud and whether Android is now ready for widespread enterprise adoption Can you give us an introduction to Google Enterprise? There ...
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The first product configurators - today called "CPQ" (Configure Price Quote) by IT analysts-were born about two decades ago. At that time Cameleon Software, was a pioneer in this market. Today, Cameleon is a market leader whose solutions ...
Tags: CPQ, Configure Price Quote, Cameleon Software, software market, software
Following last year's merger with Activant Solutions, ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Epicor is closing in on US$1 billion in revenue, a figure that belies the vendor's relatively low profile compared to giants such as Oracle and ...
Tags: Epicor, CEO, Pervez Qureshi, SaaS, growth plans
Esprit, a leading international fashion brand and the Fiege Group, one of Europe's foremost logistics providers, took up operations of the new, highly-automated Esprit Distribution Center Europe (DCE) located at the Moenchengladbach ...
Tags: Espri, Fiege Group, Distribution Center, retail industry
Marketing software firm will form part of Customer Experience Cloud. Just days after announcing financial results boosted by the performance of its cloud division,Oracle has further strengthened its portfolio by agreeing to acquire ...
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Apple's iOS mobile platform has amassed a substantial lead over Google's Android when it comes to which platform developers prefer for building enterprise mobile applications, according to survey results released Tuesday. The ...
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IBM has been slapped with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges IBM lied about the suitability of an SAP-based software package it sells in order to win Avantor’s ...
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Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems announced today that it is selling a prebuilt infrastructure and a pretested reference architecture that combine servers, networks, storage and management components that can be deployed in days. HDS's ...
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In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will feature the ability to host database tables ...
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Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer has been finalized, less than a month after the companies announced the cash deal. Yammer will become part of Microsoft's Office Division, which is led by its president, Kurt DelBene. Yammer ...
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SAP has agreed to pay Oracle US$306 million in connection with the corporate-theft case that Oracle filed against it and a former SAP subsidiary in 2007, according to a filing made Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...
Tags: SAP, Oracle, U.S.District Court, Tomorrownow Case
Mobile commerce (mCommerce) adoption is growing among businesses both globally and locally as it opens new revenue lines, says SAP. According to Gartner, Asia-Pacific and Africa will account for more than 60 percent of global mobile ...
Tags: Mobile commerce, SAP, mobile payments
The MENA region is sufficiently lacking mobility policies and strategies, especially small and medium sized businesses, according to Sam Alkharrat, Managing Director, MENA, SAP. Speaking exclusively at Sapphire Now, Madrid, Alkharrat ...
IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM’s enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa’s cloud-based human resources applications and IT services. IBM paid $46 per share for ...
Tags: IMB, Kenexa, Kenexa acquisition, IT services