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• 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.

• BYOD is driving IT 'crazy': Gartner

  By Matt Hamblen | 22 May, 2012 01:01

  IT managers grappling with bring-your-own-device policies can expect to see an explosion in the number of smartphones and tablets used by employees in the next few years.

• For Univ. of Kentucky, SAP's HANA is 'disruptive'

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 18 May, 2012 07:55

  The University of Kentucky says it has reshaped its business intelligence (BI) capability as a result of adopting SAP's in-memory system, HANA. Vince Kellen, the university CIO, calls it a "disruptive technology," and for this institution at least, that appears true.

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

  By Chris Kanaracus | 17 May, 2012 00:23

  SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.

• Capgemini to co-develop a mobile sales solution with SAP

  By Patrick Budmar | 16 May, 2012 12:26

  After signing a global managed mobility deal with SAP and Sybase late last year, technology outsourcing and consulting company, Capgemini, will co-develop a mobile sales solution with SAP.

• SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 22:06

  SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon's cloud

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 15 May, 2012 07:44

  SAP's Afaria mobile device management tool is now available on Amazon Web Services' cloud, offered as a way to make it easier to start using the platform, SAP said at the Sapphire conference on Monday.

• SAP rolls out new mobile apps, boosts HTML5, iOS, Android support

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 00:42

  SAP on Monday unveiled a series of mobile applications covering areas such as expense management and e-learning, as well as improved support for iOS and Android devices. The announcements came at the start of the vendor's Sapphire conference in Orlando.