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Ex-Oracle exec Wookey will lead Salesforce.com app development

Another executive at the cloud application vendor is taking a leave of absence
SAP cracks down on companies violating software use terms

A recent crackdown by SAP AG on companies that it considers are indirectly accessing its software without paying for it could spell trouble for some longstanding customers of the software vendor, an analyst firm said this week.
Collaboration vendor Jive aims for app adoption without pestering IT

Jive Software has released a series of new updates in a move to expand functionality and allow for simpler adoption of its market-leading enterprise social collaboration offerings.
Facebook open source data centre project gains strength

Facebook's year-old project to develop open source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum on yesterday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.
Informatica adds developer edition to its cloud services platform

Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner ecosystem around the service.
Oracle shares cloud computing vision featuring SaaS and PaaS

During a series of analyst briefings this week, Oracle has provided additional details of how it plans to play in the cloud computing arena.
SuccessFactors offers free Jam software to beat Salesforce.com's Chatter

SAP's SuccessFactors subsidiary is rolling out a version of its Jam social collaboration platform at no charge to all users, the company announced Wednesday.
Gamification driving corporate sustainability initiatives

Gamification could be the key to driving sustainability strategies within organisations, by encouraging employees to engage in social competition with each other, rather than seeing corporate environmental initiatives as a chore.
Salesforce.com unveils Rypple employee tracking tools

Salesforce.com is set to unveil new products for employee performance management and rapid website development this week during the Cloudforce conference.
Riverbed and Akamai launch SaaS acceleration product

Anyone who has endured the painful wait of a slow-loading application is familiar with the frustration and lost productivity that follows. That's the problem that motivated Riverbed and Akamai to join forces for a new SaaS acceleration offering, with the objective of resolving SaaS application performance issues that were previously untouchable.

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Logica CTO: cloud is the internet?s unfinished business

Sharing compute resources in the cloud requires trust, and if your organisation deals with a lot of sensitive data, this means thinking very carefully about the organisations you are willing to share with, says David King, chief technology officer at business and technology service company Logica.
Key questions to ask before taking a cloud project Agile

Agile development and the cloud are like hand in glove. But Agile can be dangerous if your organisation isn't ready for it. Here are some questions you need to consider to determine if your IT organisation is seriously ready to implement Agile.
Best practices for scaling up SaaS in the cloud

Guardian Life Insurance isn't about to take big risks when making IT investments, and CIO Frank Wander will be the first to tell you that he doesn't have a cloud computing strategy, per se.
What's next for Dell?

Dell's formation of a new software group last week could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.
CRM trends you need to watch

Customer relationship management vendors and industry analysts discuss which CRM trends will continue to gain strength and what new trends IT professionals need to watch.
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.
Why social tech's real value is inside the business

Although companies have been urged to adopt "Web 2.0" and social technologies for years now, the truth is that relatively few have done so internally in any serious way - and use inside the business is where the most value can be gained.
Cisco catching up with the cloud

The only place Cisco plays directly in the cloud is in the SaaS arena with its WebEx collaboration, video and telepresence services, which account for about $1 billion of Cisco's $40 billion in annual revenue.
10 identity management metrics that matter

Within the IT security community, identity and access management (IAM) initiatives are considered high value, but are notoriously problematic to deploy. Yet despite IAM's complexity, it represents 30% or more of the total information security budget of most large institutions, according to IDC.
How iPads are taking enterprise by storm

As global accounts director at Altus, Michelle Klatt's job is to visit Fortune 500 companies and demonstrate her firm's video management software. When the iPad came out a year ago, she was all over it.

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