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There has been a lot of talk about the merits of business analytics, which is a cut above what business intelligence can do, but...

The conventional wisdom is that SAP has been particularly successful selling into heavy industries. After all, it got its start in the 1970s developing...

With growing signs of leading one of the most important segments of the enterprise applications market, Salesforce.com embodies the disruptive power of Cloud-based delivery...

The completion of SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors raises as many questions about the future of SAP as there are about its past. One of the...

As an avid enterprise IT watcher, I am constantly amazed at the uncanny ability of Oracle to reinvent itself after relying on its bread-and-butter...

Chakib Bouhdary has the new title of Chief Customer Value Officer of SAP, having served as a key advisor to co-CEO Bill McDermott for...

Seismic shifts in the technology world have sparked a wave of unlikely partnerships involving desperate vendors pairing up with one another in order to...

This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the travel and expense management applications market. As...

This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the human capital management applications market. The HCM market...

This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the enterprise resource planning applications market. With the global...

Countering common perceptions that Siebel is not growing, Oracle is reaffirming its commitment to the granddaddy of customer relationship management applications amid sweeping changes...

Concur Technologies Inc., the travel and expense management applications juggernaut, has stuck to its tried-and-true formula of helping business travelers ease the pain associated...

Samsung Electronics Co., the crown jewel of Korean chaebol Samsung Group, again topped research and development spending among the world’s largest technology companies in...

In one of the biggest surveys of Big Data implementations, Apps Run The World found first-generation vendors such as Teradata and IBM have continued...

What a difference a year has made SAP! At last year’s SAPPHIRE NOW, I raised a few thorny questions about SAP’s Cloud viability and its...

After more than a year of reinvestment and redevelopment efforts, Unit4 is upping the ante with a new platform that could boost its standing...

Recently I had an opportunity to speak with Judith Rothrock, president of JRocket Marketing and an award-winning marketer who has helped a host of...

As SAP shifts its focus to the Cloud, it is turning its attention to Line of Business executives, a group of users who have...

As the lure of Cloud applications continues to capture the imagination and budgets of enterprise software buyers, one of the key enablers for enterprise...

Box, the fast-growing cloud storage and collaboration tool provider, is candid about where it stands on the infrastructure cost component for Cloud delivery. In its...

As Cloud computing becomes the mainstream vehicle for many companies to access mission-critical applications, the infrastructure cost component – or what makes Cloud delivery...

Oracle announced a blockbuster deal with the proposed purchase of MICROS Systems for $5.3 billion, stepping up its push into the leisure, hospitality and...

The proposed $8.3 billion purchase of Concur by SAP underscores the ERP applications vendor’s desire to create a balanced portfolio of well-established Cloud properties,...

SAP Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16 Walldorf, 69190 Germany +49 62 2774 7474 http://www.sap.com Overview:  Ownership: Public (SAP:NYSE) Employees: 64598 Key Verticals: Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Banking, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Construction, Healthcare, Education, Technology, Insurance, Media,...

As many ERP applications vendors are banking on cloud delivery with round-the-clock Web selling strategies and relentless acquisitions, Sage is trying something more subtle. At...

In 2013, the Cloud applications market soared 32% to hit $30.3 billion in Cloud subscription revenues, compared with $23 billion in the year-earlier period....

The growing popularity of Cloud applications has attracted a group of unusual investors wanting to cash in on the current wave of Cloud adoptions...

For years, ADP, one of the pioneers in HR and payroll applications, has been offering one kind or another Cloud services via hosting for...

The $520 million purchase of Cegedim’s CRM business by IMS Health in June 2014 offered a cautionary tale on how on-premise applications sales have...

Backed by across-the-board customer acceptance and investor support, the $30-billion Cloud applications market is poised to rack up big gains over the next five...