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  • CIOs need to rethink their roles, MIT symposium panelists say

    By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy.

  • SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

    Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers.

  • Jive Software adds integration tool for its enterprise social platform

    Jive Software has released an add-on to its enterprise social networking (ESN) software that automates and simplifies the process of integrating Jive's suite with third-party systems.

  • SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

    Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

  • SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps

    Selling 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 the portfolio.

  • SAP unveils 'consumer-friendly' Fiori app suite

    SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoing effort to change this perception, SAP unveiled Fiori, a set of 25 lightweight "consumer-friendly" applications that can run on desktops, tablets and mobile devices, on Wednesday at the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

  • 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.

  • SAP says HANA will power all cloud applications

    SAP'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 conference.

  • HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments

    Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds.

  • SAP expands reach of app store, looks to improve reviews

    You know you're not in iTunes anymore when the app you're eyeing has a US$1,050 price tag, but SAP is nonetheless expanding its online shopping experience in a bid to entice its customers to purchase enterprise software the way they shop on their smartphones.

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  • Will BlackBerry win back the enterprise with Balance and BES10?

    The launch of BlackBerry 10 in January was seen by many as a make-or-break moment for the company formerly known as RIM. With diminishing market share and apparent confusion over whether it wanted to be a consumer brand or a corporate brand, media and analysts alike were sceptical that BlackBerry would be able to make the splash it so desperately needed.

  • The programmable enterprise has arrived

    The programmable enterprise has arrived, with businesses in almost every market sector using application programming interfaces (APIs) to open up their software assets and encouraging developers to innovate using the infrastructure that they would not normally have access to.

  • MWC: Device vendors muscle in on lucrative MDM market

    The market for Mobile Device Management solutions is heating up, with a number of significant announcements at Mobile World Congress suggesting that the big mobile technology vendors are no longer willing to let niche players control the field.

  • Gamification is failing to meet business objectives: Gartner

    By 2015, 40 percent of Global 1000 organisations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations, according to Gartner, but before then 80 percent of current gamified applications will fail ? primarily due to poor design.

  • Red Hat: Most companies are still not cloud-ready

    Most companies are still not very cloud-ready, and need to work on virtualising and automating their processes before pursuing a cloud strategy in earnest.

  • 11 predictions for enterprise software in 2013

    The end of each year sparks an occasion for rumination on the past, as well as a longing gaze into the future. We shined up our crystal ball, rubbed our chin for a while, and sought opinions from industry analysts on what the future holds for the enterprise software market.

  • Dell software chief: why hardware is no longer enough

    Dell launched its software group at the beginning of 2012, and since then the company has been defining a strategy for the group and populating it through acquisitions ? the biggest and most recent of which was Quest.

  • Your mobile strategy will fail without effective application rationalisation

    Mobility in the enterprise, whether it be through, bring your own device (BYOD) strategy, mobile business intelligence (BI), internal application development, or pushing out applications to customers, has been this year?s hot topic for CIOs and senior IT managers.

  • HTML5 and the future of the web

    HTML5, the latest version of the HTML web mark-up language, promises to provide businesses with powerful, cross-platform tools for their web and mobile applications, and give developers an alternative to Adobe?s more popular Flash environment.

  • HANA is nothing short of dazzling, says SAP, which early customers confirm

    Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database, which first became generally available last year. According to SAP, HANA provides a level of performance improvement that can be nothing short of dazzling.

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