Security researchers have presented proof-of-concept code capable of accessing the database driving a Microsoft ERP system and then diverting funds while avoiding immediate detection. Tom Eston and Brett Kimmel of vendor SecureState ...
NHS Scotland has started the roll out of a single shared services platform for finance across its 22 health boards. The first wave of seven health boards are now on the single, multi-company Advanced Business Solutions financial ...
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Oracle is appealing a US$306 million settlement in the TomorrowNow corporate-theft case against German competitor SAP, according to court documents. The Redwood Shores, California, business software company said in a filing on Friday that ...
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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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Robert Youngjohns HP has acquired the services of Microsoft executive Robert Youngjohns to lead its Autonomy information management software division, HP announced Friday. Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch left the company in May. As of ...
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An increase in the share price of software firm Sage this week has led to further speculation that the company is an imminent takeover target. Rumours about the likes of IBM and Microsoft circling the firm were rife all summer. ...
SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, claiming that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. “We recently spent time talking with ...
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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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Epicor has acquired ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendor Solarsoft Business Systems from investment firm Marin Equity Partners in a bid to increase its presence in a number of vertical industries, the companies announced ...
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According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
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SAP has certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its business intelligence (BI) applications on the AWS cloud, enabling enterprises to gain more agility and infrastructure cost savings, as well as to standardise their use of public cloud. ...
Labor strikes planned for November in Portugal,Spain and Greece may force the delay or cancellation of SAP's Sapphire Now and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. "As you may have seen in the press,the labor unions in Spain,Portugal,and Greece ...
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Dell announces Quest Software acquisition… finally Dell has entered into a definitive agreement to buy desktop virtualisation-related vendor Quest Software for $2.36bn (pound 1.51bn). Under terms of the agreement, Dell Inc. will ...
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“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
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BBC managers are gaining tighter cost control with SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence dashboards. Simon Griffiths, data and reporting improvement manager at the BBC, presented the corporation’s home services management ...