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The Enterprise Resource Planning applications market is beginning to look a lot like the automotive industry where customer experience takes on greater urgency than...

Never the one to lose in high seas or in the Cloud, Oracle is pursuing a $2 billion flight plan that could put any...

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...

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...

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...

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 said it named Keith Block, formerly executive vice president of Oracle, as its new president and vice chairman, following a series of new...

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...

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...

For Intuit, a company best known for its intuitive applications from TurboTax and QuickBooks, innovation has always been one of its key differentiators. Lately...

On the heels of one of the worst recessions in history, large organizations have started investing in business transformation projects that could breathe new...

The day before Thanksgiving, Siemens PLM dropped a bombshell on the automotive vertical by announcing the winning of Daimler AG as its latest CAD...

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...

With a knack of automating professional services organizations and government contractors, Deltek has what it takes to steer these customers and ultimately reshape the...

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...