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 Late Wednesday, three days into the SAP trial, Oracle came out and said, “Hewlett-Packard has refused to accept service of a subpoena requiring Mr. Apotheker to testify about his role in SAP’s illegal conduct. Mr. Apotheker started work for HP on Monday, but it now appears that the HP ...Nov. 3, 2010 11:59 PM EDT Reads: 5,353 |
 It appears that after a few hundred well-chosen words of public hectoring by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and the vision they brought to mind of HP’s new CEO Leo Apotheker being mauled in court by Larry’s lawyers – or publicly crucified for not showing up – that SAP has conceded one of the...Nov. 1, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,309 |
 Five days before jury selection starts in the Oracle v SAP trial in Oakland, California, and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison issued his second statement in two days, this one attacking HP chairman Ray Lane as a liar and painting incoming HP CEO Leo Apotheker, SAP’s ex-CEO, as being “on the ru...Oct. 29, 2010 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,070 |
 Small and midsized companies can now access the information and data critical to their business right on their mobile device, with SAP Business One and Coresuite Mobile, an innovation from Coresystems. SAP Business One is a centralized business management solution by SAP, built specifi...Oct. 28, 2010 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,193 |
 13% Growth in Non-IFRS Software and Software-Related Service Revenues at Constant CurrenciesOct. 27, 2010 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,598 |
 Geez, what a killjoy. Last Friday SAP asked for and got a gag order that will make it impossible for any of the attorneys involved in Oracle's billion-dollar suit against SAP for massive theft of intellectual property from speaking to the press while the trial's going on.
The trial st...Oct. 26, 2010 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,920 |
 SAP TechEd is a new environment for Sybase, with the possibility of many or most attendees not having much experience with Sybase products, or perhaps not even having heard of Sybase, beyond the acquisition announcements. It was pleasing to see "Sybase technology" prominently mentioned...Oct. 20, 2010 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,994 |
 Addressing the demands of customers for more choice in managing cloud and virtualized infrastructures, SAP AG on Tuesday announced short and mid-term product and partner-related plans around cloud computing and virtualization management. As part of its product strategy, the company det...Oct. 19, 2010 03:51 PM EDT Reads: 4,948 |
 So how did ousted SAP CEO Léo Apotheker manage to persuade the HP board that he was their man against a field that included EMC’s Pat Gelsinger, Apple’s Tim Cook (before Steve Jobs bought his loyalty back), Juniper Networks’ Kevin Johnson, Cisco’s Inder Sidha and Microsoft’s Stephen El...Oct. 11, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,618 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and ...Oct. 7, 2010 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 34,713 |
 HP's board had five other finalists that "could have done" the CEO's job besides Léo Apotheker, according to what HP's lead outside director Robert Ryan said in answer to a question during a conference call with Wall Street Friday morning, but it unanimously picked SAP's castoff CEO as...Oct. 1, 2010 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,643 |
 SAP's Sales OnDemand solution is designed to address customers' and their users' specific business opportunities and challenges.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Nicholas Cumins, Senior Vice President of Solution Management at SAP, will demonstrate Sales OnDemand a...Sep. 23, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,563 |
 Many companies are already experiencing the benefits of on-demand solutions. With SAP's on-demand strategy and offerings, you can harness on-demand for competitive advantage.
In their session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, David Meyer, EVP, OnDemand, Productivity and Sustainabi...Sep. 22, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,722 |
 Cloud computing has significant implications for the privacy of personal information as well as for the confidentiality and integrity of business data. In the cloud, all the well-known security threats are still valid, as are approaches to mitigate risks associated with them. But cloud...Sep. 16, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,551 |
 Crystal Reports 2008 for SAP Business One is now fully available to the tens of thousands of companies running SAP Business One worldwide. With built-in business intelligence for SAP Business One, small and midsized companies can now get a true 360 degree view of their business with ea...Sep. 8, 2010 09:06 AM EDT Reads: 7,574 |
 In this video, Richard Duffy, SAP Business One Product Evangelist, takes a deeper hands-on look into SAP Business One 8.8. He'll take a quick look at integrating SAP Business One 8.8 "on premise" with Business Intelligence tools "in the cloud" using the latest BI innovations from SAP -...Sep. 8, 2010 08:58 AM EDT Reads: 4,343 |
 SAP Business One is an integrated business software that tailors its application around the needs of small and midsize business owners. In one single application, this tool manages all primary facets of your business, including Financials, Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Banking, Manufac...Sep. 8, 2010 08:54 AM EDT Reads: 5,891 |
 Klee Associates, a SAP training and education provider, has announced the launch of a new blog dedicated to SAP training and education. The new blog, titled SAP Training: Taming the Beast, will serve as an ideal setting for SAP users to obtain free information and education on SAP's ER...Sep. 1, 2010 09:05 AM EDT Reads: 7,203 |
 Late Friday night when sensible people on the East Coast were either in bed or in their cups, 3PAR's board sent out a message saying it had decided that HP's offer Friday of $30 a share was "superior" to the $27 bid 3PAR had accepted from Dell early Friday morning.
It said that it h...Aug. 29, 2010 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,070 |
 The tug of war over 3PAR has picked up its pace.
Thursday morning Dell upped its offer for the virtualized storage house to $24.30 a share, a scant 30 cents better than HP's surprise offer of $24 on Monday, but still roughly $1.53 billion, up significantly from the $1.15 billion tha...Aug. 26, 2010 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,512 |
 HP chairman, president and CEO Mark Hurd, 53, the buttoned-down golden boy the company brought in to clean up the mess left by his ousted predecessor Carly Fiorina, the guy who delivered on that charter beyond the company’s wildest expectations, quit suddenly this evening after a weeks...Aug. 11, 2010 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,051 |
 SAP AG has announced the completion of its acquisition of Sybase, a partner and a market leader in managing, analyzing, and mobilizing business information. Through this transaction, SAP intends to accelerate the reach of SAP solutions across mobile platforms and drive forward the real...Aug. 5, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,105 |
 SAP’s quarter didn’t turn out quite as well as Oracle’s, its great competitor.
Oracle’s earnings in the calendar second quarter were up 25%, helped by the Sun acquisition. SAP’s profits were up 16% to $638 million (€491 million), or 52 cents a share, but not as much as the punters th...Aug. 1, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,088 |
 SAP AG on Tuesday announced its preliminary financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.
"Customers continue to invest for growth across large, midsized and small enterprises and within many industries," said Bill McDermott, Co-CEO of SAP. "We had outstanding growth i...Jul. 27, 2010 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,380 |
 Oracle has hired David Boies to argue its case against SAP. Oracle has made it clear in a 2008 filing with the court that its damages “are, at a minimum, well into the several hundreds of millions of dollars and likely are at least a billion dollars.” Boies is the guy who won the Justi...Jun. 28, 2010 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,014 |
 Server application virtualization pioneer AppZero and OpSource, a provider of enterprise cloud and managed hosting, on Wednesday announced a partnership that will make it easy for enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) to move their server-based Microsoft and SAP applicati...Jun. 23, 2010 09:22 AM EDT Reads: 4,168 |
 Like other desktop-centric technologies such as anti-malware, PC tune-up utilities (disk de-fragmentation, registry cleaners, junk removers, etc) have primarily been a localized technology that relied on the user installing software on the computer to analyze and resolve problems that ...Jun. 22, 2010 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,327 |
 Novell set this week as the deadline for acquisition offers, according to the Wall Street Journal followed by the New York Times.
Elliott Associates LLP spokesman Scott Tagliarino claims Elliott, whose $5.75-a-share offer put Novell in play a couple of months ago, knows nothing abou...May. 20, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,541 |
 "I think this shows the agility of the new SAP," boasted SAP Chief Financial Officer Werner Brandt, in a conference call yesterday as SAP confirmed that it is to buy Sybase for $5.8 Billion. According to SAP spokesman Saswato Das, the acquisition deal includes over $500 million in Syba...May. 13, 2010 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,129 |
 Nimsoft, the unified monitoring house that just got bought by CA, has gone SaaS. Makes sense given CA’s new cloud predilections.
The scalable new Nimsoft On Demand is targeted at managed service providers (MSPs) and emerging companies.
It promises the same functionality (and cod...Apr. 15, 2010 10:07 AM EDT Reads: 3,794 |
 CA on Monday announced that three of its technology leaders will speak at the 5th International Cloud Expo being held April 19-21 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. All are presenting on Monday, April 19. Brown also will speak at the Business Software Alliance Cybersecur...Apr. 14, 2010 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,861 |
 SAP is trying to figure out the best way to monetize enterprise mobile applications and B2C mobile applications. These are complex issues. Extending the functionality of SAP to mobile users is a key goal for SAP. They want to enable many, many more users to benefit from SAP. The mob...Apr. 14, 2010 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,832 |
 Once the news got out that it had welched on its 2005 patent pledge to the open source community and had threatened TurboHercules (TH) with patent infringement, IBM had to come up with some cover story or another to contain the fallout. So it switched places with many of its observers ...Apr. 9, 2010 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,481 |
 SYS-CON announced today that "Cloud Expo, Inc." has spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company effective March 1, 2010.
Carmen Gonzalez begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting was named president & CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. Carmen...Apr. 8, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 21,390 |
 CA has looked into its crystal ball and now realizes that it might have been a tad ambitious in forecasting earnings of $1.60-$1.71 this fiscal year, pushing Wall Street to expect $1.69.
It'll probably come in on the low end of its guidance, it says, something Credit Suisse, for one...Apr. 6, 2010 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,687 |
 Microsoft cloud services mean freedom for businesses. The freedom to access the technology you want, where and when you want it. The freedom to take advantage of the latest technology as a capital expense, or an operational one. The freedom to focus on running your business - not runni...Apr. 6, 2010 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,399 |
 Taking their new act on the road, SAP’s new co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe – in their second public appearance since getting the job last month – told a press conference in Silicon Valley Monday that the company’s problem-beset, taken-off-the-market SaaS product Business...Mar. 17, 2010 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,862 |
 Creating a new office is a direct response to the increased demand for practical ways of connecting SAP and Microsoft solutions. Microsoft SharePoint Server, fast becoming a de facto standard in the Enterprise, is fueling the need for intuitive tools and packaged scenarios enabling sea...Mar. 2, 2010 02:21 PM EST Reads: 3,631 |
 Oracle co-president Charles Phillips was supposed to become CEO of CA - for all its muddied skirts still one of the world's largest software companies - and then those "soul mates forever" billboards popped up in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, exposing his near decade-long bi-coa...Mar. 2, 2010 12:00 PM EST Reads: 17,082 |
 Today at CeBit in Hannover, Germany SAP & Sybase announced the first set of applications to Millions of Mobile Workers. This will extend the reach of SAP Business Suite Applications (including SAP CRM), to iPhone, Windows Mobile and other Mobile Device Users.Mar. 2, 2010 07:45 AM EST Reads: 6,200 |
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