IBM plans to boost its enterprise social line of software by acquiring Kenexa, a maker of cloud-based human resources applications, the companies said on Monday. IBM has agreed to pay US$46 per share for Kenexa in a cash transaction worth ...
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In a bid to improve its store performance and customer marketing, mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse has used business intelligence (BI) software by MicroStrategy as opposed to rival Information Builders because the dashboards created by ...
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The take-up of mobile technology will have a dramatic affect on back-office IT systems, with hidden costs and disruptions possible for companies that do not redesign systems and processes, according to Forrester Research. Businesses are ...
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SAP is suing insurer Swiss Re International, claiming that the company has refused to pay its share of an $80 million settlement with Waste Management, which had brought suit against SAP in 2008 over a troubled software project. Waste ...
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The global financial services sector still faces upheaval, five years after the credit crunch decimated its ranks. But how have IT strategies changed in the years since the UK government was forced to nationalise Northern Rock? Five years ...
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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 government has released a prior information notice for the procurement of support, maintenance and development services for its electronic Property Information Mapping Service (e-PIMS) platform. The e-PIMS platform currently hosts a ...
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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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Cordless power tool performance ultimately comes down to battery performance, and last year at this time claims by one tool manufacturer about their batteries sounded pretty boastful. Figures like 40 per cent longer run time between charges ...
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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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Rackspace is formally launching its OpenStack open-source infrastructure-as-a-service platform in the UK in mid-August. Further reading IT skills gap has led to a'talent war',says Rackspace CEO Rackspace CTO:Oracle and SAP are starting ...
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While earnings from marquee-name tech companies such as Apple and Facebook disappointed this week, sales of mobile devices and enterprise software showed signs of growth. The deluge of earnings reports offered mixed news about sales but ...
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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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