ERP market leader SAP AG on Saturday announced that its SAP America subsidiary would acquire cloud-based human capital management (HCM) specialist SuccessFactors as part of its plan to create an advanced end-to-end offering of cloud and on-premise solutions for managing business…
Despite all of the talk about self-service business intelligence, Chris Warner, VP of marketing for business intelligence software provider JackBe, insists most business intelligence software today is used by “BI black belts” and IT organizations to produce dashboards and reports for…
Despite revenue and earnings per share (EPS) that came in well ahead of expectations, the share price of cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) provider Salesforce.com tumbled 10 percent Friday. Analysts are pointing to customer billings, which came in shy of…
Oracle on Thursday took the wraps off two new releases in its Data Integration product line, the fruit of its 2006 acquisition of ELT (extract, load, transform) technology specialist Sunopsis, and its 2009 acquisition of GoldenGate Software, a player in…
The median Fortune 1000 company could increase its revenue by $2.01 billion a year just by marginally improving the usability of the data already at its disposal, according to a study released by Sybase. The study — “Measuring the Business…
According to new data from Deloitte, enterprises seem to be missing out on the benefits of business intelligence and other analytical tools that enable them to leverage the massive amounts of data at their disposal. As reported in this CIO…
In a bid to turn the spotlight from its competitors and onto its products, enterprise software provider SAP Tuesday used its Sapphire ’03 conference in Orlando, Fla. to unveil a series of new products and enhancements.During a press conference, SAP…
The first phase of Microsoft’s ‘Jupiter’ e-business Web services suite went to beta Monday bearing the new designation BizTalk Server 2004. Described by Microsoft as the first major milestone in “delivering an integrated, interoperable, modularized, extensible, and secure e-business solution…
Even consumers with several years of experience online continue to cite security and privacy features as a key factor in the decision to spend online, according to a new study by MasterCard International, lending weight to recent analysis suggesting financial…
Business software maker Siebel Systems forged a strategic alliance with AT&T Tuesday, wedding its eBusiness applications software with AT&T’s managed services in order to deliver end-to-end managed services for mission critical applications. The two partners said their alliance will allow…