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The big promise of big data

For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

Tags: applications, cloudera, data management, data mining, MapR, oracle, software

SAP-Sybase: What to expect in the first 90 days

Now that SAP's roughly $US6 billion acquisition of Sybase has gained clearance from European regulators, it may not be long before the deal is finalised. With that in mind, users and partners of the companies have much to consider during the next few months, analysts say.

By Chris Kanaracus | 23 July, 2010 05:51

Tags: application development, applications, business issues, mergers & acquisitions, mobile, sap, software, sybase, Telecommunication

Rimini Street ups third-party maintenance ante

Rimini Street fired the latest salvo in the ongoing war over software maintenance this week, announcing that it has expanded the number of SAP applications it supports.

By Chris Kanaracus | 08 October, 2009 06:28

Tags: enterprise apps, maintenance, sap, third-party maintenance, oracle

SAP aims to acquire forecasting software vendor SAF

SAP plans to buy SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting, a Swiss developer of retail forecasting software.

By Peter Sayer | 20 July, 2009 23:24

Tags: SAF, sap

SAP adds Web services to Business ByDesign

Users of SAP's Business ByDesign on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite now have "one-click" integration with a range of third-party Web services such as Google's search engine and news and financial feeds such as Business Wire and Hoover's.

By Chris Kanaracus | 15 July, 2009 05:07

Tags: Business ByDesign, sap

eBeef: RFID from birth to plate

Computers determine the quality of meat on your dinner plate, long before it turns up on the doorstep of your butcher, and the increasing uptake of technology in the meat industry means armers across the country are liberating themselves from the global financial crisis, the ravages of drought and other environmental problems.

By Kathryn Edwards | 27 April, 2009 14:50

Tags: agriculture, bluetooth, databases, farming, livestock, meat, mysql, RFID, sap, scanners

Starbucks' Next-Generation CIO: Young, Fast and In Control

Sharp-eyed and highly caffeinated regulars might have noticed the brand-new employee at the Mercer Island Drive Thru Starbucks in November. The newbie, wearing the standard-issue green apron, was receiving a crash course in just about every function at the 1,800-square-foot store. He took a turn as a barista, manned the drive-thru, handed out samples to customers, took out the trash, and assisted a patron who was trying to connect to the Wi-Fi network. He tinkered with the store's point-of-sale (POS) system. He even did some scheduling.

By Thomas Wailgum | 08 January, 2009 08:27

Tags: ERP, starbucks

Mobile app development moves beyond CRM, but slowly

Everywhere you go these days, people are using BlackBerries to check e-mail and set up appointments. But the march toward everyday use of more complex business applications on smartphones is going slowly at best.

Universities build open-source enterprise applications

A group of US universities is blazing a new path in open source software. They're building a set of enterprise applications -- the big, important, mission-critical ones that have long been the exclusive domain of software companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.