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Tullow Oil revamps finance and supply chain with SAP and Accenture
Tullow Oil is working with Accenture to design and implement a new SAP solution to replace its existing accounting and supply chain systems, and to develop a new model for managing the integration of the technology and business processes across these two functions.
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The Internet of Things: Coming to a network near you
When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), the most common examples are smart cars, IP-addressable washing machines and Internet-connected nanny cams.
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SAP certifies Business Suite for production use on Amazon Web Services
SAP Business Suite customers can now run the software in production form on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced this week during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid.
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All eyes onTechEd as Microsoft sets out enterprise upgrades
Microsoft's TechEd conference, which kicks off this week, is always the company's most important event for IT professionals and developers. This year, however, the event in Orlando takes on extra significance.
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Atos enters final testing phase for London 2012 Olympic Games
Outsourcer Atos is about to commence its final test phase for its systems supporting the 2012 Olympic Games in London, before systems go live on 1 June.
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Oracle updates JD Edwards ERP applications
Oracle has rolled out what it called major upgrades to its JD Edwards line of ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications during the Collaborate user conference in Las Vegas.
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Oracle president Mark Hurd spells out analytics vision
Oracle rolled out a series of announcements aimed at portraying itself as the industry's dominant player in business analytics yesterday, as well as one relevant to customers of rival SAP.
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SAP HANA makes big 'data analytics more accessible'
SAP's new high performance analytics appliance (HANA) allows IT departments to spend less time on the plumbing and more time on tasks that will provide tangible business benefits, according to Timo Elliott, Business Intelligence evangelist at SAP.
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SAP ports ERP application to Sybase ASE database infrastructure
SAP will finish porting its ERP (enterprise resource planning) application to the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database later this year, giving customers now running Oracle and other platforms a lower cost alternative, the company announced Tuesday during the Sapphire conference.
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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.
