SAP filled a gap in its analytic applications suite by buying Pilot Software, a privately-held company specializing in strategy management software. Calling the deal a “tuck-in” acquisition, SAP said in a statement Pilot’s assets will boost its ability to provide…
Article courtesy of Internetnews.com. Oracle added a new weapon to fight Salesforce.com and SAP in the battle for on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software, acquiring software maker Telephony@Work for an undisclosed sum. Telephony@Work makes CallCenterAnywhere, a software stack that supports…
Think Oracle’s winning bid for Retek over SAP didn’t rattle the No. 1 applications maker’s cage? Think again. Reinforcing that the retail space is a fertile battleground for selling merchants’ applications, German giant SAP today agreed to buy privately held…
Looking to capitalize on the growing interest businesses have in saving paper by digitizing documents, IBM today introduced a new piece of electronic forms software. IBM Workplace Forms helps employees take corporate data, such as inventory figures, customer data or…
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Once thought of as two separate worlds, applications and database software are converging due to the increasingly distributed nature of modern computing. Bill Baker, general manager of SQL Server Business Intelligence, said the proliferation of…
Proving that it isn’t going to sit on its laurels while rival Oracle snaps up applications specialists, SAP AG agreed to acquire retail software maker Triversity for a private sum. Toronto, Canada-based Triversity is a top maker of point-of-sale (POS)…
Microsoft has created a Web services software platform to make call center operations run more efficiently and cost effectively for service providers. The Customer Care Framework decreases average call times by removing extraneous data requests and delivering more accurate information…
UPDATED: Microsoft and SAP continue to get cozier as they combat Oracle and other rivals.Using their service-oriented architecture (SOA) models as a base, the partners said they are jointly developing a new composite application that hooks SAP business process software…
SAP AG is helping utility companies leverage Web services to help them more efficiently deal with deregulated markets and new compliance issues. SAP is blending its NetWeaver application platform, loaded with business intelligence tools, to help electricity, gas and water…
PeopleSoft’s Chairman and CEO David Duffield resigned from the company on Dec. 21, just one week after PeopleSoft’s board agreed to accept Oracle’s $10.3 billion acquisition offer. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday, Duffield…
