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 Recognizing that communication service providers, including voice, data, content and mobility companies, today are obliged to offer more innovative and value-based services, SAP AG has announced that the signing of the acquisition of privately held Highdeal occurred on May 4, 2009. Hig...May. 6, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 761 |
 Workday, PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield's latest company, has just gotten another $75 million in funding, a sum that would bring its total to more than $150 million and must make it the most royally financed SaaS venture on the face of the earth.May. 4, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,584 |
 IntelliCorp has announced its participation in the SAP EcoHub solution marketplace. This community-powered solution marketplace makes it easier for customers to discover, evaluate and purchase solutions - such as IntelliCorp LiveCompare, LiveModel and DataWorks - that complement SAP ap...May. 4, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 645 |
 Software AG SOA World News coverage initiated today on Ulitzer. Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Travel and Hospitality." Each subject group offers an unlimited number of topics, and each topic may contain thousands of peer-reviewed fe...Apr. 23, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,953 |
 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that it will demonstrate virtualization solutions, resulting from its technical collaboration with SAP AG, at SAP Virtualization Week 2009, being held April 20-24 at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. In addition, Sun is announcing expanded ...Apr. 20, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,724 |
 In case you missed it Oracle announced this morning that it will be acquiring Sun Microsystems. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion. This news means the technology landscape is about to radically change and quite possibly, Sun hardware is now dead. The software aspe...Apr. 20, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,562 |
Redwood City, CA―April 20, 2009―Altor Networks announced today that InformationWeek selected Altor Networks as one of the top Startup 50 tech companies shaking up IT. This prestigious award recognized Altor Networks for its innovation, value and enterprise-readiness, as well as reader... Apr. 20, 2009 12:08 PM EDT Reads: 707 |
 Well now the fat is in the fire. A ticked-off HP is coming out against Cisco with both guns blazing. It claims it's been working for years on the kind of all-in-one compute-storage-network-fabric-power-and-cooling convergence that Cisco says it has. HP says it's had such a thing in min...Apr. 20, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,199 |
 HP, whose third-rank Unix franchise could have been really pushed to the back of the bus if Sun took IBM up on its offer a couple of weeks ago and they combined forces, has enhanced its Serviceguard software and its HP-UX 11i operating environment to lower planned downtime and associat...Apr. 17, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,107 |
 We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly born Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet.
Apr. 16, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,207 |
 While server virtualization appears to have gone mainstream, the case for desktop virtualization is often less clear. However, the potential opportunity is significant with the number of client devices far exceeding the number of servers. Primary reasons why organizations will embrace ...Apr. 15, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,615 |
 EMC Tuesday rolled out a spanking new built-from-the-ground-up high-end storage architecture for the cloud and its federated kin, the virtual data center, a k a the internal cloud, widgetry that's been a couple of years in development. Dubbed the Virtual Matrix Architecture, it promise...Apr. 14, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,888 |
 New Software Enables Divisions of Large SAP Legacy Accounts to Manage Multinational, Multi-Sub Business Operations in Real-Time. "NetSuite OneWorld for SAP enables large companies to keep their investment in legacy business applications, while deploying a modern, web-based business app...Apr. 14, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,087 |
 Tech Mahinda, an Indian outsourcing firm 31% owned by BT, has won the auction for 51% of the scandal-rocked Satyam Computer Services for a mere $580 million, not much for a company that was valued at $7 billion a year ago. Tech Mahinda offered $1.16 (58 rupees) a share, a 23% premium; ...Apr. 14, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,097 |
 SAP and IBM have been showing off the live migration of SAP applications across remote IBM Power6 systems via the cloud, a bit of widgetry developed at IBM'S Research Lab in Haifa as part of the European Union-funded RESERVOIR cloud computing project. When workloads change, the technol...Apr. 13, 2009 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,777 |
 VMware has taken on the distinct scent of Microsoft again. It just hired another ex-Microsoftie for its senior ranks. Besides CEO Paul Maritz and second-in-command, COO Tod Nielsen, both Microsoft émigrés, there's now chief development officer and EVP Richard McAniff, late corporate VP...Apr. 13, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,017 |
 Rackable Systems, the large-scale server wannabe, said Wednesday that it's buying the now bankrupt SGI for roughly $25 million in cash plus the assumption of certain liabilities. The once-great SGI closed at 41 cents a share Tuesday with a market cap of $4.78 million.Apr. 8, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,606 |
 Given the current economic reality, small and midsize customers must have easy-to-access, accurate insight into their business performance information. Every employee must be vigilant to help ensure that customers are happy, products are delivered on time and profitably, and the sales ...Apr. 8, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,505 |
 "When the financial crisis hit we knew it was of utmost importance to continue our implementation of SAP to gain full cash flow transparency and create an edge over the competition," said Michael Freet, senior vice president and CFO, ICW Group. "The success we achieved immediately afte...Apr. 8, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 917 |
 Neoris, a global business and IT consulting company, today announced the launch of a new Direct Store Delivery (DSD) initiative. Neoris is introducing a new Mobile composite application for the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry: ActiveSuite(TM) XSales. The new solution leverages t...Apr. 8, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,476 |
 Tidal Software has announced Tidal Transaction Analyzer for SAP Solutions version 1.9. This version is the most recent step in the company’s plans to introduce a broad set of SAP management solutions that provide automation, and accelerate problem isolation for SAP users. Tidal Transac...Apr. 7, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,347 |
 The Wall Street Journal, flourishing its unidentified sources, said Thursday afternoon that the price IBM is willing to pay for Sun had drop from between $10 and $11 a share to between $9 and $10 and that Sun is willing to accept the cut - yeah, like it wouldn't - provided IBM gives it...Apr. 3, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,571 |
 In the end, it’s all about money – how much do you spend for just maintaining the status quo, and how much on supporting truly differentiating business initiatives. This drives an imperative for dynamic infrastructures, increasing resource utilization and reducing labor costs, and for ...Mar. 31, 2009 10:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,341 |
 Microsoft has emitted a squeal of protest much like a stuck pig over a secret "Open Cloud Manifesto" that it says is quietly being handed around the industry seeking signoffs. It doesn't identify the author or authors of this manifesto but figures its supporters - one would guess organ...Mar. 29, 2009 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,983 Replies: 1 |
 In a completely uncharacteristic and counter-culture move – the recession has slashed a lot of dividends – Oracle is going to pay out its very first dividend. It’s going to pay five cents a share starting in May at the cost of about a billion a year. No, it’s not coming out of Larry’s ...Mar. 25, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,947 |
 The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday morning that the company was expected to inform what the paper could only call “a large number” of American workers that their jobs were either being eliminated or sent to India. IBM@Alliance suggests the layoffs will be on Thursday. IBM’s earning...Mar. 25, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,535 |
 Michael Dell claimed Tuesday that simply the talk of a Sun-IBM tie-up is an "enormous opportunity" for Dell servers since it creates an air of uncertainty around the future of Sun's Solaris-based boxes and accelerates the move to x86 Linux machines. According to reports Dell's CEO said...Mar. 24, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,407 |
 The folks at the Wall Street Journal who brought us tales of IBM buying Sun for $6.5 billion-$8 billion last week were saying by Friday that due diligence was holding up any announcement. The paper seemed to think that IBM lawyers were paying particular attention to Sun's many differen...Mar. 24, 2009 11:32 AM EDT Reads: 3,610 |
 CEO Joe Tucci said for what must be the umpteenth time Tuesday that EMC has no intention of parting with its roughly 84% majority stake in virtualization leader VMware. The occasion was EMC’s first analyst day in a dog’s age. EMC has been under pretty constant market pressure since VMw...Mar. 15, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,491 |
 Last week's Wall Street scuttlebutt that Oracle might make a so-called "strategic" move and acquire Virtual Iron has now blossomed into a couple of unconfirmed press reports that the pair has progressed to a signed letter of intent. Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert, who put the rumor...Mar. 11, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,039 |
 Tidal Software has announced a development agreement with SAP AG to integrate the Tidal Intelligent Automation Platform with the SAP Solution Manager application lifecycle management solution. This integration is intended to reduce meantime-to-resolution (MTTR) of issues that impact bu...Mar. 10, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,655 |
 A majority 51% of the big survival-threatened Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services Ltd, whose disgraced founder and former CEO confessed in January to loading its books with a billion dollars in "fictitious" assets and "non-existent" cash, was put up for auction Monday. Those coo...Mar. 9, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,777 |
 According to the Wall Street blog, The Motley Fool, both IBM and Oracle have been among the flock of 50-odd companies that have responded to the possible sale of Indian consulting/outsourcing biggie Satyam Computer Services, whose founder and subsequently ex-CEO Ramalinga Raju, now in ...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,693 |
 Heidrick & Struggles, the big headhunter, says it's seeing "clients in need of immediate access to top talent who can step into short-term situations and solve problems quickly, or provide operating insights and advise" so it's setting up what it calls a Chief Advisor Network to fill t...Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,469 |
 Tidal Software announced that its customer, Tennant Company, has successfully completed a comprehensive audit of global SAP transaction usage using Tidal Transaction Analyzer. According to Tennant, the Tidal solution greatly simplifies the auditing process and enhances security by prov...Mar. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 1,092 |
 SAP announced it will collaborate with Intel to optimize SAP Business One applications on Intel Xeon Processor based systems to enable small businesses to lower cost by achieving faster time to value of their IT investments. SAP and Intel intend to encourage original equipment manufact...Mar. 4, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 748 |
 One has to take comfort where one can these days. NetSuite, the Larry Ellison SaaS company competing with Salesforce.com, managed to eke out its first profitable quarter ever, up a penny a share in Q4 if you ignore the write-offs. This development is apparently due to demand from multi...Feb. 11, 2009 11:15 PM EST Reads: 1,336 |
 IDC says there was a "precipitous" drop in the number of PC processors shipped worldwide between the third quarter and the fourth quarter last year - the worst, in fact, since it started tracking such things in 1996 - and it holds out scant hope for this half, which is why even the mig...Feb. 11, 2009 10:37 PM EST Reads: 2,053 |
 Digging in for the long haul, SAP is going to cut 3,000-3,500 jobs after its earnings dipped 1.6% to 1.89 billion euros ($2.49 billion) in 2008 although revenues were up 13% to 11.6 billion euros. It expects the move to save it 300 million-350 million euros ($397 million-$464 million) ...Jan. 30, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,258 |
 Alloy connects IBM Lotus Notes software with SAP Business Suite. Alloy is a new style of software application that presents information and data from SAP applications in the context of the Lotus Notes collaboration software desktop. Alloy supports SAP workflows, reporting and analytics...Jan. 20, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,090 |
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