Eying Cloud Apps Leadership, Microsoft To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2B
Launching its largest acquisition in history, Microsoft is set to reshape the Cloud applications market with the proposed purchase of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.
The...
Concur Catches A Ride With SAP Business Networks
In April 2013 Concur CEO Steve Singh took his mountain bike out for a spin that ended with a wreck leaving him badly injured...
Constellation Software Writes Money Book On Apps
The book of the Toronto-based ERP apps vendor Constellation Software Inc.(CSI) tells a simple story – it makes good money as shown in its...
Salesforce Relishes Second Act
Accelerating its push to become the first $10-billion Cloud applications vendor, Salesforce launched new products that buttress its core offerings, while hiking prices and...
Apps Vendors Aim Healthcare Fixes
The healthcare applications market is attracting a new class of players vying for a slice of the multi-trillion-dollar opportunity.
In recent months, enterprise applications vendors...
Unit4 Takes Self-Driving ERP For A Spin
With a dose of innovation and ready-made templates, the latest crop of Enterprise Resource Planning applications – which have been around for more than...
SAP Spins Up Financial Transformation, EPM Innovation
SAP is spinning up its financial and ERP applications strategy in order to become more entrenched with its biggest customers, a move that could...
UnBoxing The New World Of Content Management
In an era where every bit of information is stored, retrieved and analyzed, Box is aiming to redefine how content should be managed.
With the...
SAP as No. 1 in Cloud HCM Market
Following is excerpted from Cloud Top 500 survey findings, which profile the world's 500 largest Cloud Applications Vendors based on their 2014 Cloud subscription...
Apps Market Is Clouded By Cheap Money
Flushed with capital, the Cloud applications market has catapulted into one of the key battlegrounds for software companies to redefine corporate functions and business...
Voilà! SAP Accelerating Move To Digitization
In another evolutionary move to push its technology platform, SAP introduced a query engine called SAP HANA Vora that leverages open-source technologies including Spark to...
Euro Software Sings The Blues
Amid a possible economic meltdown in Greece, the European software market is bracing for a host of challenges that could derail a fragile recovery.
Interviews...
Unit4 Buys Education ERP Applications Vendor, Picks Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform
Unit4 intensified its vertical strategy with an acquisition of a higher-education ERP application vendor, while cozying up with Microsoft to better leverage its Azure...
Anaplan Ups Ante With Planning Apps For The Enterprise
In the new world of Cloud-based enterprise planning software, Anaplan has assembled considerable fire power to challenge a host of competitors from EPM incumbents...
Sage, Salesforce Join Forces To Go Live With Sage Life
In one of the most remarkable partnerships in the Cloud applications market, Sage and Salesforce.com are joining forces to build next-generation ERP applications for...
NetSuite Partners With Microsoft, Signs Amex GBT
The Cloud can make for strange bedfellows, and that was the case at SuiteWorld, NetSuite’s annual user conference, when CEO Zach Nelson announced a...
SAP Extends Brand Value On Multiple Fronts
The big SAPPHIRENOW conference ended on a high note with Jennifer Lopez as headline entertainment and a fitting tribute to the new chapter of...
SAP Has Zero Interest In Buying Salesforce.com
SAP is not interested in acquiring Salesforce.com, according to company CEO Bill McDermott who responded flatly to a question raised by Apps Run The...
SAP Solidifies Industry Cloud Strategy
SAP solidified its industry cloud strategy with growing adoptions of its next-generation ERP suite of applications, while capitalizing on near-term opportunities with an array...
Investors Pile Into Cloud Apps Vendors
The drive to bankroll some of the fastest-growing Cloud applications vendors has reached a milestone with at least $21 billion being raised so far. That...
Merger Mania Grips Cloud Apps
The rising valuation of Cloud vendors, coupled with an insatiable appetite for well-established enterprise applications companies, could fuel a merger mania in 2014 bidding...
SAP Steps Up Run Simple Message With A Twist
The second day of the giant SAPPHIRENOW conference took the Run Simple message one notch higher with SAP executives and customers providing more examples...
SAP Takes Simplicity Message To Heart
SAP kicked off its biggest annual customer conference with a bang, or simply the unmistakable message of Run Simple.
For a software company that has...
In Search Of The New SAP Cloud for Industries
On the eve of its biggest annual customer conference, SAP announced the Industry Cloud strategy with the goal of sustaining its momentum in the...
IBM Scales Marketing With Silverpop Purchase
IBM cast a wider net in Cloud applications market with the planned purchase of Silverpop, which specializes in email marketing software for 5,000 brands...
UNIT4 Marks A Major Milestone
Having become one of the largest ERP vendors in the world, UNIT4 is charting a new course by expanding aggressively into the Cloud and...
SYSPRO’s Game Changer – All Dressed Up and Many Places To Go
The Enterprise Resource Planning applications market is beginning to look a lot like the automotive industry where customer experience takes on greater urgency than...
Oracle To Buy Responsys In New Flight Plan
Never the one to lose in high seas or in the Cloud, Oracle is pursuing a $2 billion flight plan that could put any...