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Oracle to Court: Let's Try SAP Again By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published February 07, 2012 Oracle has opted for a re-trial of its case against SAP's TomorrowNow rather than accept a reduced monetary judgement. Tags: SAP, Oracle, lawsuit SAP's Strong Revenues Suggest Enterprise Software Momentum into 2012 By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published January 25, 2012 The company's quarterly revenue rose 11 percent year-over-year. Tags: enterprise software, SAP, earnings 10 ways to beat SAP at the bargaining table By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published November 15, 2011 Experts say these techniques could help enterprises negotiate more favorable terms with their software vendors, including SAP. Tags: contracts, SAP SAP Promotes Custom BI App Sharing By Vangie Beal | Article Published September 29, 2011 In an effort to build awareness and implementation of its business intelligence offerings, SAP is touting custom-coded apps built on its BI platform. Tags: business intelligence software, BI software, SAP SAP Snaps Up Social Networking Firm Crossgate By Vangie Beal | Article Published September 21, 2011 Social networking is no longer confirmed to Facebook. Tags: social networking, SAP SAP Touts Two HANA In-Memory Analytics Apps By Paul Shread | Article Published September 14, 2011 SAP boosts its in-memory analytics offering with two additional HANA applications. Tags: SAP, In-Memory, analytics, business intelligence Enterprise Software Sales Surged to $245 billion in 2010 By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published May 06, 2011 IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP were the big winnners, with a rising tide lifting most boats. Tags: SAP, IBM, Microsoft, enterprise software, Oracle SAP Goes 'Social' with Cloud-Based StreamWork By Vangie Beal | Article Published May 05, 2011 The StreamWork application will facilitate collabaration among all SAP business applications. Tags: ERP, cloud management tools, Cloud, social networking, SAP ERP Merger: Infor, Lawson Alliance Creates New ERP Titan By Paul Shread | Article Published April 27, 2011 The newly formed competitor will be the third largest ERP company behind market leaders SAP and Oracle. Tags: SAP, Enterprise IT, Oracle, enterprise resource planning, ERP SAP Unveils Enhanced Business ByDesign Platform By David Needle | Article Published February 08, 2011 The enterprise software vendor touts the enhancements as enabling a larger number of partners to offer customizations to the platform. Tags: SAP, mobile devices, on demand CRM, on demand, cloud computing SAP Offers $120M to Oracle in TomorrowNow Case By David Needle | Article Published November 04, 2010 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison set to testify Monday. Tags: TomorrowNow, Oracle, HP, SAP, Larry Ellison HP Defends CEO Hire, Blasts Hurd -- Again By David Needle | Article Published October 12, 2010 Ray Lane, HP's newly-appointed chairman, defends Léo Apotheker against charges he was involved in the TomorrowNow scandal. Tags: Oracle, Hurd, Larry Ellison, SAP, Storage Cloud Computing: Small, Big Players Cooperate By Jeffrey Kaplan | Article Published October 06, 2010 Legacy software vendors are inking cloud computing contracts with a new generation of nimble, web-oriented service providers. Tags: AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, SaaS, SAP HP Board Names Apotheker Next CEO By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published September 30, 2010 Following the hasty departure of Mark Hurd, computing giant Hewlett-Packard names former SAP boss Léo Apotheker as its next president and CEO. Tags: CEO, Mark Hurd, HP, Oracle, SAP SAP Releases Carbon Impact OnDemand SaaS App By David Needle | Article Published September 22, 2010 The enterprise software giant said Carbon Impact on Demand is its first native cloud application and much more than a feel good, save the environment tool. Tags: supply chain management, cloud computing, SAP, SaaS, carbon footprint SAP Unveils Business Analytics Apps Aimed at Industry Verticals By Thor Olavsrud | Article Published September 15, 2010 The enterprise software giant seeks to give companies an anywhere, anytime X-Ray view of their business with a host of new business analytics applications. Tags: business analytics software, business intelligence software, business analytics, SAP, business intelligence Sybase Taps HP for BI Reference Architecture By David Needle | Article Published August 10, 2010 In a partnership with HP, Sybase says its Sybase IQ 15 business intelligence software is now available as a reference architecture for HP ProLiant DL785 servers. Tags: business intelligence software, Oracle, data warehouse, business intelligence, SAP Google Wave Partner SAP Says StreamWork Still On Track By David Needle | Article Published August 09, 2010 SAP says the demise of Wave won't deter development of its Streamwork collaboration tool. Tags: SAP, Google Wave, collaboration software, collaboration, IT asset management Pssst! Hot Rumors in Data Storage By Drew Robb | Article Published August 06, 2010 IBM or Oracle to buy EMC? Microsoft to buy SAP? What is chattering class speculating about? Tags: SAP, mergers and acquisitions, IBM, EMC, data storage SAP: Private Clouds Have a Role in the Enterprise By David Needle | Article Published July 29, 2010 Executives from Citrix, SAP and IBM debate the role of cloud computing in the enterprise. Tags: private cloud, cloud computing, Amazon, Citrix, SAP Will Sun Shine Through in Oracle's 4Q? By Larry Barrett | Article Published June 24, 2010 Oracle is expected to post impressive sales and earnings for the fourth quarter after the bell Thursday, but analysts are most curious to see how much the Sun Microsystems acquisition contributed to its success. Tags: software, earnings, Sun, SAP, Oracle HP Offers SAP 'Migration-in-a-Box' Services By Andy Patrizio | Article Published May 18, 2010 HP is still ripping at Sun's installed base, offering a package solution designed to entice SAP customers to migrate from Sun hardware to HP's. Tags: infrastructure, HP, ERP, SAP, Oracle SAP Acquires Sybase for $5.8 Billion By Larry Barrett | Article Published May 12, 2010 The German software giant makes a huge play in the database software arena with the $5.8 billion acquisition of Sybase. Tags: software, Oracle, database, Sybase, SAP SAP Picks Up TechniData for Health, Safety Enterprise Apps By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 21, 2010 After years of mostly sitting on the sidelines watching archrival Oracle shop away, SAP steps up and acquires the maker of product and environmental safety enterprise applications. Tags: apps, SAP, sustainability, TechniData, Oracle Oracle Adds Healthcare Software Maker Phase Forward By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 19, 2010 The software giant improved makes yet another key purchase, snapping up Phase Forward, a leading developer of drug data management applications. Tags: Oracle, IBM, Phase Forward, SAP, SaaS SAP Debuts Cloud-Based Collaboration Apps By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 30, 2010 StreamWork is designed to help businesses share, access and manage their content online from the cloud. Tags: unified communications, collaboration, SAP, StreamWork, cloud computing Rimini Street Fires Back at Oracle By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 29, 2010 Third-party software support provider's countersuit accuses Oracle of copyright misuse, defamation, disparagement and unfair competition. Tags: Rimini Street, SAP, lawsuit, Oracle, database Oracle Delivers Strong 3Q Earnings, Sales (Update) By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 26, 2010 The software giant produces yet another solid quarter and says the Sun Microsystems acquisition is already paying dividends. Tags: SAP, earnings, software, Oracle, Sun Microsystems SAP's Co-CEO's Talk Strategy, Oracle and On-Demand By David Needle | Article Published March 16, 2010 The first broad release of Business ByDesign is set for July and SAP's co-CEOs say they are confident the enterprise software company is on the right track. Tags: Java, SaaS, SaaS Contract, Oracle, SAP SAP Shakes Up Board Following CEO's Ouster By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 11, 2010 Less than a week after replacing CEO Leo Apotheker with a pair of co-CEOs, the German software company announces a number of changes to its supervisory board and names a new COO. Tags: Oracle, Hasso Plattner, enterprise software, SAP, SaaS Oracle Snaps Up SOA Specialist AmberPoint By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 08, 2010 The acquisition-happy software juggernaut adds another piece to its ever-expanding software portfolio, picking up the privately held maker of service-oriented architecture (SOA) management applications. Tags: Sun Microsystems, AmberPoint, SOA, Oracle, SAP Oracle Takes a Page From IBM By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 27, 2010 With the $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems finally completed, Oracle details its ambitious plan to bring completely integrated and engineered systems to the enterprise much the way IBM did in the 1960s. Tags: SAP, Storage, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, IBM Microsoft and SAP Voice Concerns on Oracle/Sun Deal By - Reuters | Article Published December 11, 2009 Microsoft and SAP will express doubts about the Oracle/Sun deal to EU regulators, voicing concerns that it would eliminate a top competitor. Tags: SAP, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, acquisition, takeover SAP Launches Sustainability Management App By Larry Barrett | Article Published December 10, 2009 Software giant's new sustainability management application simplifies data collection and analysis to help companies meet environmental and social standards. Tags: network, business intelligence, SAP, Enterprise, optimization SAP, Microsoft Partner Against Oracle By Larry Barrett | Article Published November 19, 2009 SAP will be Microsoft's "preferred partner" for customers buying its budgeting, planning and forecasting applications – a shot across the bow of Oracle. Tags: Enterprise, partner, acquisition, SAP, Europe What's Driving SaaS Adoption? By Larry Marion | Article Published October 13, 2009 Hint: it has to do with cost. Plus: the optimum value may come from a combination of SaaS and on-premise, especially for large companies. Tags: services, SAP, on-demand, Enterprise, SaaS Can Social Media Help Discover Customer Preferences? By Rob Enderle | Article Published July 16, 2009 A 15-year-old writes a report about online media that shocks the financial industry. Why were his comments so surprising? Tags: SAP, media, music, IT, Facebook Enterprise Software Touts User Friendliness By Alex Goldman | Article Published July 06, 2009 If software apps for corporations were easier to use, adoption and sales might increase. Tags: search, software, SAP, marketing Tech Firms: Bottom Line vs. Moving Forward By - Reuters | Article Published May 22, 2009 As cutbacks continue, tech firms are running out of places to save pennies, given that they must continue to innovate. Tags: wireless, software, SAP, media Is Microsoft Borrowing Money for Acquisitions? By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published May 13, 2009 As Microsoft issued issued $3.75 billion of private debt, industry observers wondered if it was intended to purchase SAP or other tech firms. Tags: marketing, SAP, Microsoft, Windows, Yahoo SAP Snaps Up Green Accounting Firm By Alex Goldman | Article Published May 13, 2009 SAP acquired Clear Standards, a vendor of carbon consumption tracking software. Tags: datacenter, SAP, marketing SAP Acquisition a "Rumor," Microsoft says By - Reuters | Article Published May 12, 2009 Microsoft head Steve Ballmer dispelled speculation about a purchase of SAP. Tags: IBM, SAP, software, Microsoft Netsuite May Enter Large Enterprise Market By - Reuters | Article Published April 14, 2009 Bolstered by its success in the small- to mid-sized business market, Netsuite may now start to take on giants like Oracle and SAP. Tags: NetSuite, SAP, software, Larry Ellison, Oracle SAP and IBM Partner for Virtualization By Alex Goldman | Article Published March 10, 2009 Big Blue gets tapped by SAP to help it move forward in lowering datacenter costs. Tags: SAP, Intel, IBM, virtualization, workloads IT Job Search: The 30 Best IT Job Sites By James Maguire | Article Published February 10, 2009 The best IT job sites are helpful, but do you know the formula for getting the most from them? Tags: IT Jobs/Salary, IT job, IT management job, Yahoo, SAP 15 Minutes of Fame: Enterprise Software and The Casual User Revolution By Joshua Greenbaum | Article Published February 09, 2009 In the future most IT staffers will no longer associate a vendor’s name with the software they use, upsetting a long held status quo. Tags: consumer, services, software, SAP, Oracle Social Networks Among Trends in CRM for 2009 By Richard Adhikari | Article Published January 05, 2009 Business value and getting more bang for the buck will be important. Tags: Oracle, IBM, SAP, networking, Microsoft Red Hat Backs Jaspersoft's Open Source BI By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published December 10, 2008 A new round of financing is set to bolster the open source startup as it competes against the big players in business intelligence. Tags: SAP, Linux, open source, Red Hat, marketing A VC Talks About Tech in the Age of Gloom By James Maguire | Article Published October 14, 2008 A venture capitalist reveals what sector remains hot even in this pessimistic period and describes the lessons tech firms have learned over the last boom and bust cycle. Tags: advertising, SAP, cloud computing, open source, software Oracle and SAP Keep Hammering Each Other By Richard Adhikari | Article Published October 12, 2008 Are the vendors locked in a death dance? Or a war of attrition? Tags: support, servers, SAP, software, Oracle Google Follies: So You're a 'Customer'? Think Again By Joshua Greenbaum | Article Published October 07, 2008 If you’re using a free service, you’re not a customer, you’re the sales prospect. Tags: Amazon, Google, SAP, Yahoo, services Big IT Decisions for the Small-Minded By Steve Andriole | Article Published October 06, 2008 The tech world is distracted with petty squabbling – like PCs vs. Macs – when larger issues need attention. Tags: SAP, management, browsers, Oracle, Vista The Next Wave in Collaborative Software By Richard Adhikari | Article Published September 08, 2008 New applications leverage Web 2.0 technologies to provide a totally new experience. Tags: SAP, e-Mail, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle SAP to Innovate Heavily in SMB On-Demand Suite By Richard Adhikari | Article Published August 28, 2008 Business intelligence to pervade enterprise software giant's forthcoming products. Tags: SMB, SAP, CRM, software, management More Profits, But At What Cost? By Chris Nerney | Article Published August 25, 2008 More Profits, But At What Cost? Tags: stock price, shareholders, Oracle, Greenbaum, SAP Microsoft Loads Up .NET, Visual Studio By Andy Patrizio | Article Published August 14, 2008 Redmond calls the updates "service packs" but they included a wide array of new features -- not just fixes. Tags: SAP, security, IBM, services, Sarbanes-Oxley Oracle Fuses BI, Performance Management By Richard Adhikari | Article Published July 21, 2008 UPDATED: Oracle's integration of PeopleSoft and Hyperion aims to help businesses manage costs. Tags: SAP, middleware, marketing, spectrum, Oracle SaaS Overcoming Common Customer Concerns By Jeffrey Kaplan | Article Published June 24, 2008 A recent survey finds rising adoption of Software as a Service by corporate users. Tags: Salesforce.com, broadband, SAP, Microsoft, Google Five-Year Plan Bears Fruit for SAP By Richard Adhikari | Article Published June 20, 2008 Software projects in the works with VMware and others. Tags: VMware, SAP, SOA, Sarbanes-Oxley, CA SAP Is Wooing the BlackBerry CRM Crowd By Richard Adhikari | Article Published May 08, 2008 Software giant will natively integrate its business apps into RIMM's BlackBerry. Tags: video, management, Blackberry, e-Mail, SAP IBM Dials up Web 2.0 For Enterprise Portals By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published April 10, 2008 With WebSphere refresh, Big Blue continues its campaign to introduce dynamic Web features into business systems. Tags: SAP, software, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Is OOXML a Done Deal? By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published March 31, 2008 Some Microsoft opponents admit OOXML will probably become an ISO standard. Tags: XML, HP, servers, Office, international, server, support, Specification, Microsoft, SAP, standards, IT, InternetNews.com IT Budgets: Vitamin Pills Versus Pain Killers By Steve Andriole | Article Published March 31, 2008 While cost management projects are always appealing, when times are tough companies should invest in projects that will eventually make them money. Tags: management, services, Cisco, SAP, Oracle Verio Jumps On SaaS Bandwagon By Larry Barrett | Article Published November 01, 2007 The Web-hosting company sees the writing on the wall and is now offering e-mail, data security and CRM applications on demand. Tags: SaaS, SAP, Microsoft, services, Salesforce.com Will Open Source Developers be Well Paid? By James Maguire | Article Published July 05, 2007 An open source researcher talks about the pay levels of developers. Plus, who makes more: open source or closed source developers? Tags: SAP, IT Jobs/Salary, developers, open source, software |
