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• 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.

• 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.

• Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2012 14:06

  Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.

• SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 April, 2012 05:47

  SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle and IBM.

• How we tested network management wares

  By Barry Nance | 12 March, 2012 15:34

  We evaluated each product in several different areas: Discovery and enumeration of devices and computers, support for a variety of device manufacturers and device types, global directory integration, graphical depiction of the network, monitoring of network node status (availability), performance and health, alerts and notifications when network problems occur, automated corrective actions, maintenance of trouble tickets (or integration with a help desk tool), support for virtualized environments and the production of useful, informative reports.

• SAP, Symantec upgrade mobile device tools

  By Matt Hamblen | 27 February, 2012 18:14

  BARCELONA -- Mobile Device Management (MDM) software got a boost from rivals SAP and Symantec who separately announced improvements to their management tools on the opening day of Mobile Work Congress here.

• 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.

• SAP pumps up its in-memory, mobile and cloud strategies

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 November, 2011 18:01

  SAP is expected to make a slew of announcements related to in-memory computing, mobile applications and cloud-based services on Wednesday during the Sapphire conference in Madrid.

• Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 November, 2011 07:09

  Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.

• Sybase IQ 15.4 features 'Big Data' theme, support for Hadoop, MapReduce

  By Chris Kanaracus | 02 November, 2011 00:10

  Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop programming frameworks for large-scale data processing.

• IN SHORT: Top industry news from Ninefold, Mindjet, Oracle and Capgemini

  By Hafizah Osman | 01 October, 2011 09:22

  The latest services, acquisitions, partnerships and project completions

• Catching up with mobile security threats

  By Elisabeth Horwitt | 29 September, 2011 08:29

  Development of enterprise mobile apps has been moving more slowly than development of consumer-facing apps, according to Gartner. One main reason is IT leaders' concerns about the security of mobile devices, which are often employees' personal devices, and are vulnerable to being lost, hacked or stolen. While there are plenty of established tools and practices for keeping Web visitors from straying (or hacking) into sensitive corporate data, managing security across a diverse set of mobile devices remains a challenge, IT experts say.

• SAP adds security, management for app stores

  By Chris Kanaracus | 14 September, 2011 02:35

  SAP customers looking to open iTunes-like enterprise app stores through Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP) will soon have the ability to manage and deploy the software securely thanks to new VPP support in the Sybase Afaria platform, SAP said Tuesday at the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas.

• Coffee doesn't come first; the mobile does: Sybase

  By Patrick Budmar | 05 August, 2011 14:06

  Enterprise and mobile software vendor, Sybase, has found in a recent study that half of workers would rather choose the mobile device they use at work instead of the company making this decision for them.

• SAP hopes partners will rev up mobile apps sales

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 July, 2011 03:58

  Thousands of SAP partners who sell the Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite and Business Objects analytics software can now also offer customers Sybase mobile technology and applications, SAP announced this week.