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• Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 February, 2012 00:28

  Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.

• Oracle seeks new trial in IP theft suit against SAP

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 February, 2012 05:26

  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.

• SAP unveils HANA in-memory database offerings for SMBs

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 February, 2012 03:47

  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.

• Oracle asks for retrial against SAP in TomorrowNow case

  By John Ribeiro | 07 February, 2012 16:26

  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.

• SAP community portal launch date still unclear due to bugs

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 February, 2012 03:45

  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.

• SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 February, 2012 02:12

  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.

• When ERP is botched, CFOs must act

  By Fred O'Connor | 01 February, 2012 03:39

  Companies long have grappled with glitches in their ERP (enterprise resource planning) system implementations -- a situation that the recent botched-rollout record suggests won't get better any time soon. While ERP projects go awry for many reasons, each incident reveals its own set of troublesome repercussions, financial and otherwise.

• IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 February, 2012 01:50

  IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.

• Interview: Architecting a broader

  By Julia Talevski | 18 March, 2009 15:44

  Adopting more service-orientated architecture (SOA) products are just some ways business software vendor, Infor, is trying to achieve its goals this year despite stiff competition from SAP and Oracle. Senior vice-present for global strategy, Rick Parker, met up with JULIA TALEVSKI to discuss what role the channel has to play in Infor’s plans, the significance of SOA and how the market is shaping up.

• Building SAP’s ecosystem

  By Trevor Clarke | 01 April, 2009 11:38

  Channel relationships have become ever more important as the economy turns south and vendors look to cut costs. TREVOR CLARKE caught up with SAP executive vice-president for the global ecosystem and partner group, Zia Yusuf, and Asia-Pacifi c Japan vice-president ecosystem and partner group, Elbert Bailey, to talk about the vendor’s online community and plans for the channel.

• Technology argument 1: Tablets vs. laptops vs. smartphones

  By Agam Shah | 04 November, 2011 09:40

  Many people today carry multiple mobile devices to access data anyplace, anytime. But a question always lingers: between a smartphone, laptop and tablet, which should you carry on the road?

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

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 July, 2010 05:51

  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.

• SAP aims to acquire forecasting software vendor SAF

  By Peter Sayer | 20 July, 2009 23:24

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

• SAP wants to help microcredit groups manage loans

  By Peter Sayer | 18 June, 2009 02:38

  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.

• What to do if your cloud provider disappears

  By Robert L. Scheier | 21 April, 2009 09:05

  Software developer Christopher Shockey saw the first signs of trouble in late 2008. A sales rep who had always represented Web application development provider Coghead was now calling on behalf of Coghead's much larger rival Salesforce.com.