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  • SAP lays out cloud strategy since acquiring SuccessFactors

    SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) on Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

  • Workday ERP update encroaches on Oracle and SAP market

    Workday is rolling out version 16 of its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software to customers, an update that includes upgrades to the financials component that could help it steal away deals with large enterprises from the likes of Oracle and SAP.

  • Microsoft bringing Dynamic ERP to Azure, ups ante on competitors

    Microsoft will deliver what's expected to be a comprehensive update on its plans to bring the Dynamics line of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software to its Azure cloud service during its Convergence conference, which starts March 18 in Houston.

  • Microsoft moves Dynamics ERP to Azure cloud

    Microsoft is moving its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to its Azure cloud platform, the company announced at the Convergence conference. The belated move represents a major change for the way Microsoft sells Dynamics, which has traditionally been sold through partners in on-premises and hosted form.

  • HP execs criticise Oracle for dropping Itanium support

    HP executives are critical of Oracle's decision to stop supporting its database and ERP products that run on Itanium processor-based systems.

  • SAP BusinessByDesign 2.6 update includes software development kit

    SAP has rolled out the 2.6 release of its SaaS (software-as-a-service) suite Business ByDesign, which contains a highly anticipated SDK (software development kit) that partners will use to create extensions and add-ons.

  • Rosslyn offers cloud-based data analysis

    Rosslyn has developed a cloud-based analytic tool for corporate data spend

  • SAP launches River cloud computing platform

    SAP is segmenting its emerging cloud computing strategy across multiple development platforms, including one codenamed "River," which will support lightweight extensions to its on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

  • Oracle to update OBIEE 11g in July

    Oracle is planning to release one of the most significant updates to its BI (business intelligence) platform in years at a July 7 event in London, according to the company's Web site.

  • Amazon puts NetSuite ERP on its storage cloud

    NetSuite has integrated its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3), the company announced Wednesday in conjunction with its annual partner and developer conference in San Francisco.

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  • Three ways to extend your data centre with cloud services

    Cloud technology is emerging as a viable option for companies that want to cut costs, increase agility or augment their own IT resources without building out new infrastructure ? or all of the above.

  • The year the landscape for enterprise software changed forever

    It's a stretch to call 2011 a truly transformative year for enterprise software, given all the old warts that remain, from large-scale IT project failures to creaky legacy systems that will take years and great expense to replace with the latest-and-greatest.

  • The solution to legacy application woes

    Legacy applications are one of the most difficult issues to face within IT. A rip-and-replace approach is expensive and thus difficult to justify; plus, it tends to interrupt operations. Meanwhile, the ageing software lingers in accounting's ledgers, overstays its welcome in sales and causes poor network performance throughout the organisation.

  • Will web servers find a role in the enterprise?

    An emerging class of extremely low-power servers is helping Internet companies and hosting providers to slash their energy bills, and proponents say they could have a role in the enterprise as well.

  • Three major Microsoft SharePoint challenges

    Enterprise adoption of SharePoint is rapidly on the rise: A new survey from document management company Global 360 reveals that 90 percent of the survey's 886 respondents currently use SharePoint, with 8 percent using SharePoint 2010.

  • SAP rumoured to take over Red Hat

    Rumours swirled once again this week regarding a possible takeover of Red Hat, this time by SAP, but a number of industry observers said Thursday that the prospect is unlikely at best.

  • Host the cloud at home with ViFib

    French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data centre space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home.

  • What's new in SharePoint Server 2010

    Project management consultants Campana & Schott describe their experience

  • Automatic for the programmer

    The magic of software is that, because there are no limits of physics, we can keep advancing the technology to meet our ambitions. Welcome to the 'endless value spiral.'

  • Kagermann reflects on his years at SAP

    In an interview with Techworld-affiliated IDG News Service at SAPPHIRE, Kagermann reflected on his career and how his successor, fellow co-CEO Leo Apotheker, will do when he takes the reins next year.

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