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  COMMUNITY: Winners of SAP’s 2011 Young ICT Explorers competition announced

• Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

  By Marc Ferranti | 25 May, 2012 22:22

  The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.

• Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

• Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

  By Loek Essers | 24 May, 2012 16:37

  More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.

• SAP president claims €1bn worth of in-memory business in the pipeline

  By Derek du Preez | 23 May, 2012 17:07

  SAP has 1 billion (£808 million) worth of business in the pipeline for its in-memory HANA product, according to SAP's president of sales Robert Enslin.

• SuccessFactors opens first datacentre in Australia

  By Spandas Lui | 23 May, 2012 10:16

  The SAP-owned business execution software company has plans to turn Australia into a Cloud computing hub for the Asia-Pacific region.

• SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 May, 2012 05:26

  SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

• SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 22:08

  SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

• SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 14:54

  Due to incorrect information provided by the vendor, the story "SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight," posted to the wire on May 16, contained an improper characterization of the hardware used in a database cluster set up by SAP.

• 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.