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...
Apparancy Extends A Helping Hand
After years of running a hodgepodge of legacy and best-of-breed apps, many healthcare organizations find themselves with disjointed operational workflows that prevent them from...
SYSPRO Stays Fresh and Relevant
As the software industry begins to mature, staying fresh and relevant has become more important than ever for many vendors. The challenge begins to multiply...
Sage Is Back In The Driver’s Seat
After years of expanding via acquisitions and strategy shifts, Sage appears to have finally found the right engine to power its growth. Sage, the world’s...
SAP Faces the Inconvenient Truth
On the last day of the huge SAPPHIRENOW conference, a trio of standup comedians appeared on stage lampooning everything under the sun with one...
Salesforce.com Intensifies Talent War With Oracle
Salesforce.com said it named Keith Block, formerly executive vice president of Oracle, as its new president and vice chairman, following a series of new...
SAP Catches Buyout Fever With Hybris
A day after Salesforce.com’s $2.5-billion deal to buy social CRM vendor ExactTarget, SAP announced its plan to acquire hybris, a Zug, Switzerland-based ISV specializing...
Salesforce.com’s Humongous Deal To Boost Cloud Appeal
When Salesforce.com announced its first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings two weeks ago, I made the prediction that it would make a major acquisition in...
Intuit’s Improvements
For Intuit, a company best known for its intuitive applications from TurboTax and QuickBooks, innovation has always been one of its key differentiators. Lately...
Business Transformation With BHAG In Mind
On the heels of one of the worst recessions in history, large organizations have started investing in business transformation projects that could breathe new...
Siemens PLM Drops Bombshell To Give Thanks
The day before Thanksgiving, Siemens PLM dropped a bombshell on the automotive vertical by announcing the winning of Daimler AG as its latest CAD...
Salesforce.com, SAP Trading Places
In the annals of the software industry, it’s often a zero sum game when vendors start jockeying for new positions in an effort to...
Deltek Profits From Project-Focused Markets
With a knack of automating professional services organizations and government contractors, Deltek has what it takes to steer these customers and ultimately reshape the...