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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Oracle's plan to drag its legal fight against rival SAP's defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary through a second trial is not surprising, analysts said Tuesday.
By Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 February, 2012 05:26
SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite.
By Chris Kanaracus | 08 February, 2012 03:47
Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about US$1 billion by a federal court in September last year.
By John Ribeiro | 07 February, 2012 16:26
Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company is no longer specifying a launch date.
By Chris Kanaracus | 07 February, 2012 03:45
SAP's US$3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
By Chris Kanaracus | 03 February, 2012 02:12
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
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
SAP plans to buy SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting, a Swiss developer of retail forecasting software.
By Peter Sayer | 20 July, 2009 23:24
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
SAP hopes to help lower the cost of managing loan portfolios for organizations offering microcredits as part of a partnership announced Wednesday with French nonprofit group PlaNet Finance.
By Peter Sayer | 18 June, 2009 02:38
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