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

• CIOs need to rethink their roles, MIT symposium panelists say

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2013 20:16

  By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy.

• SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

  By Stephen Lawson | 21 May, 2013 13:09

  Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers.

• SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 May, 2013 18:35

  Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

• SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2013 17:26

  Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio.

• SAP unveils 'consumer-friendly' Fiori app suite

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2013 14:28

  SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoing effort to change this perception, SAP unveiled Fiori, a set of 25 lightweight "consumer-friendly" applications that can run on desktops, tablets and mobile devices, on Wednesday at the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• SAP hopes its software can score with sports teams

  By Chris Kanaracus | 14 May, 2013 15:46

  SAP is hoping to win points with professional sports teams by showing how its HANA in-memory database, analytics, mobile software and other technologies can help them make fans happier, find better players and improve their operations.

• SAP offers mobile device management for €1 per month on Amazon's cloud

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 14 May, 2013 14:21

  A new cloud version of SAP's Afaria mobile device management software offers IT departments a more convenient way of controlling mobile devices.

• SAP says HANA will power all Cloud applications

  By Chris Kanaracus | 14 May, 2013 14:19

  SAP's HANA Cloud Platform, consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services, will eventually underpin all of its cloud-based applications, the company said at its Sapphire conference.

• NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy and life with Oracle

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 January, 2013 20:59

  NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's predictions, and may yet again in a few weeks, when NetSuite is expected to announce its fourth-quarter and year-end results.

• 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.

• What to expect at SAP's Sapphire

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 May, 2013 17:32

  SAP's Sapphire conference kicks off next week in Orlando, setting the stage for the company to sell customers on its visions for cloud-based applications, in-memory computing and mobility.

• SAP's first quarter: The key questions

  By Chris Kanaracus | 18 April, 2013 14:57

  SAP will announce its first-quarter 2013 earnings on Friday, a report that will get heavy scrutiny from company watchers. Here's a look at some of the more important topics that should come up during SAP executives' conference calls with press and analysts on Friday.

• Questions SAP should answer during its Q4 earnings call

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 January, 2013 18:42

  As it has in the past, SAP spilled the beans a bit early on its fourth-quarter and year-end performance with the release of preliminary results last week. Now the vendor is about to do a full announcement along with the usual conference calls with press and analysts.

• SaaS in 2013: Companies and trends to watch

  By Chris Kanaracus | 04 January, 2013 21:28

  As 2013 begins, the SaaS (software as a service) market is set to heat up even more, as well as potentially undergo a number of key shifts. Here's a look at a series of key SaaS vendors and trends to watch as the year unfolds.

• SAP in 2013: Five things to watch

  By Chris Kanaracus | 21 December, 2012 21:11

  It was a typically busy year for SAP, with the company making headlines for strong sales of its HANA in-memory database, high-profile acquisitions and aggressive moves into cloud computing.

• 11 predictions for enterprise software in 2013

  By Chris Kanaracus | 17 December, 2012 20:35

  The end of each year sparks an occasion for rumination on the past, as well as a longing gaze into the future. We shined up our crystal ball, rubbed our chin for a while, and sought opinions from industry analysts on what the future holds for the enterprise software market.

• The year in enterprise software: Seven key takeaways

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 December, 2012 14:22

  It's been a busy and transformative year for enterprise software. We dug through our story archives, talked to industry experts and put on our thinking caps to come up with this list of key events and emerging trends from 2012, all of which are set to have a lasting impact on the industry.

• The scariest US software project horror stories of 2012

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 December, 2012 21:36

  Sure, plenty of enterprise software projects go just fine and end up giving customers all the things vendors promise: lower operating costs, streamlined operations and happier users.