Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is now a cloud vendor. The Oracle Public Cloud was officially announced at OpenWorld, providing users with the opportunity to run Oracle Fusion Apps, Middleware, Database and Java on an Oracle managed and operated cloud infrastructure. Oracle…
Business analytics at the speed of thought? That’s the pitch that Oracle CEO Larry Ellision made at the Oracle OpenWorld conference with the announcement of the new Exalytics appliance. Exalytics is an in-memory database appliance that leverages parallelism and DRAM…
Jaspersoft is expanding its business intelligence software for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The Jaspersoft 4.2 release also provides an open source software development kit to help build mobile BI apps. “The open source mobile SDK is for embedded apps,” Jim…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is continuing to grow its software business while moving away from commodity x86 hardware. Oracle reported first quarter fiscal 2012 revenues of $8.4 billion, a 12 percent year-over-year increase. A key part of Oracle’s quarterly growth was…
There is now a new choice for those looking to deploying SAP applications on Linux. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) today announced that its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) operating system platform has now been certified for SAP (NYSE: SAP).…
How secure is SAP (NYSE: SAP)? That’s a question that security researcher Alexander Polyakov set out to answer during a session at the Black Hat security conference last week. Polyakov is the CTO of security firm ERPscan, with a specific…
Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) software business remained strong in its most recent quarter, but hardware sales came in shy of Wall Street estimates. Oracle reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2011 earnings late Thursday, with revenues of $10.8 billion, a 13 percent…
Business intelligence (BI) software is all about deriving value from data. It’s a goal that commercial open source BI vendor Pentaho is aiming to expand upon with the Pentaho BI 4 Enterprise Edition release this week. The Pentatho BI 4…
Red Hat and SAP are teaming up with new integrated support for SAP customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The new support system will help streamline how customers are supported by way of an integrated trouble ticket system. The…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) keeps on getting bigger. The enterprise applications and database giant last night reported third-quarter 2011 revenues of $8.8 billion, a 37 percent year-over-year increase. Net income was $2.2 billion, a 78 percent year-over-year gain. Earnings per share…