When you hear from SAP these days, the software giant always leads with HANA, its in-memory database. HANA is to SAP what…
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New procurement software solutions fit fast-paced innovation strategies
As enterprise IT priorities move beyond cost cutting to revenue generation, their use of procurement technology is also shifting. New technologies are…
Read MoreMicrosoft claims SAP enterprise apps for Azure
Availability of SAP's portfolio on Azure should bolster Microsoft's contention that Azure is an option for running enterprise applications…
Read MoreAviso launches to do risk analysis for revenue, raises $8M
Aviso, a startup from Zuora co-founder K.V. Rao and former JPMorgan Chase head quant Andrew Abrahams, launched on Wednesday with a new…
Read MoreContinued spending growth with a focus on new investment
Confirmation of growing investment in cloud and analytics, especially, comes from a new Morgan Stanley survey as reported by the IDG News…
Read MoreAvon slams the brakes on SAP deployment, proving once again that enterprise software is hard
No kidding. ERP and enterprise applications are very complicated. Even new implementations have to tie into all that old stuff. Here's one more reminder.…
Read MoreSwiss mobile development firm Coresystems scores $15M Series A round
Coresystems creates apps for mobile field force efforts and software that ties in with SAP Business One. Former SAP exec Peter Zencke participated in the round.…
Read MoreWith SaaS, it’s not just about your apps — it’s how you connect those apps, too
Competitive advantage used to come from using pricey enterprise applications to create operational efficiencies. Ross Mason of MuleSoft says SaaS and APIs have killed that model, and the future belongs to companies that integrate applications to discover new business models.…
Read MoreSAP buys Ariba and its online marketplace for $4.3B
Enterprise software giant SAP is buying Ariba in a $4.3 billion move that will give it control of what may be world's largest online marketplace. Businesses worldwide use Ariba's e-commerce and procurement services to buy and sell all sorts of goods and services.…
Read MoreAmazon and SAP put All-in-One in the cloud
SAP All-in-One business applications will now run in Amazon's cloud -- another step that could make Amazon Web Services more enticing to risk-averse businesses that stress over entrusting their life-blood applications to a public cloud.…
Read MoreSAP to Oracle: “I will drink your milkshake”
After years of beating around the bush, SAP declares that it is a database company and will take on the biggest kid on the block. It's about time. It's funding startups to build applications for Hana and Sybase. But beating Oracle won't be easy.…
Read MoreMarketing is the next big money sector in technology
Businesses can now leverage big data for the benefit of driving marketing insights. According to Ajay Agarwal of Bain Capital Ventures, this fundamental shift will create several multi-billion dollar winners, and new technology companies will emerge as the marketing equivalents of Salesforce and SAP.…
Read More‘Sup with SAP?
SAP 's looking for acquisitions to help the enterprise software giant enter new "categories," co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said this week in comments that sparked a flurry of conjecture about potential targets. So what's it going to buy to beef up its cloud- and consumer-cred?…
Read MoreMicrosoft puts more of its own apps on Windows Azure
Microsoft started moving Photosynth, it's cool immersive camera application, to the Microsoft Azure platform-as-a-service earlier this month. And that marks the beginning of a flow of Microsoft legacy apps -- many of which it already hosts but not on Azure -- over to its full-fledged PaaS.…
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