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Swedish Online Music Streaming Service Spotify Is to Work with Hortonworks
Sep 17, 2013Swedish online music streaming service Spotify is to work with Hadoop distributor Hortonworks as it looks to further personalise its services and improve its analytics. An early adopter of the Apache Hadoop data storage and processing ...
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UNIX Now Finds Itself in a Slow,Inexorable Decline
Aug 21, 2013Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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SAP's Business Objects BI Product Line May Soon Begin Receiving a Visual Overhaul
Aug 19, 2013SAP's Business Objects BI (business intelligence) product line may soon begin receiving a visual overhaul based on a new "design language" or methodology called LAVA (Lightweight Applied Visual Analytics). There are six design principles ...
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Oracle's Long-Awaited 12c Database Has Apparently Received a Firm Launch Date
Jun 27, 2013Oracle's long-awaited 12c database has apparently received a firm launch date,with a company executive stating that it will be released"within the next two weeks." In addition,Oracle plans to release an update to its Fusion Middleware ...
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Oracle Hasn't Even Officially Released Its 12c Database Yet
Jun 23, 2013Oracle hasn’t even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow, 12.1c, which apparently will be Oracle’s most direct response yet to SAP’s ...
Tags: Oracle, 12c Database, SAP HANA
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Oracle's 4Q Revenue Was Flat at $10.9 Billion But Profits Rose 10% $3.8 Billion
Jun 20, 2013Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue was flat at $10.9 billion, while profits rose 10% $3.8 billion, as the company reported strong growth in sales of software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions and "engineered systems" like Exadata. But ...
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SAP Is at Work on a New Product Called Sentinel
Jun 10, 2013SAP is at work on a new product called Sentinel that is supposed to be "nothing less than the Amazon for Stocks and the Facebook for Investors," according to a job posting associated with the project. "We take our metaphors seriously," ...
Tags: Stocks, Computer Products, SAP
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SAP Is Buying Privately Held Hybris in a Bid to Build out an E-Commerce Software
Jun 5, 2013SAP is buying privately held Hybris in a bid to build out an e-commerce software offering that connects with customers across multiple "channels, devices and touch points." Terms of the deal, which was announced Wednesday, were not ...
Tags: SAP, E-Commerce, Oracle
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Sikka Has Been a Champion of SAP's HANA in-Memory Database Platform
May 29, 2013SAP abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka has ...
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SAP Has Abruptly Reorganised Its Development Strategy
May 28, 2013SAP has abruptly reorganised its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka ...
Tags: advisor, Ariba, Bill McDermott, Bob Calderoni, cloud, CNME
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IBM Is Pitching Its SmartCloud IaaS for Use in Data Reporting and Analysis
May 28, 2013Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- ...
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Business Suite on HANA Launched in Early January
May 20, 2013SAP’s announcement earlier this year that it is making its widely used Business Suite applications available on its in-memory database technology, HANA, has led to new customers signing up to the solution – but it is yet to draw ...
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SAP Has Oriented The Line-of-Business Applications Into Four Thematic Areas
May 17, 2013Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to ...
Tags: SAP, Cloud Apps, Computer Products
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The Announcement Tuesday Came Shortly After SAP Unveiled The HANA Enterprise Cloud
May 16, 2013SAP's HANA Cloud Platform, consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services, will eventually underpin all of its cloud-based applications, the company said at its Sapphire ...
Tags: SAP, HANA, Cloud Applications
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SAP Is Hoping to Win Points with Professional Sports Teams
May 16, 2013SAP is hoping to win points with professional sports teams by showing how its HANA in-memory database, analytics, mobile software and other technologies can help them make fans happier, find better players and improve their operations. ...
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