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...
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...