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…
The 45,000 attendees at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco were served up a program rich with announcements affecting Oracle’s CRM, business intelligence, ERP and enterprise application landscape. Oracle Siebel CRM, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Oracle Business Process…
Whether you are looking to purchase a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system or leverage a legacy system, the following tips and advice can help you improve your ROI. Choose your ERP system carefully. “Selecting an ERP solution that best…
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…
Looking to provide customers with options to connect with their business partners, SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced plans to acquire business-to-business (B2B) integration provider Crossgate. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Crossgate lets companies integrate and network with trading partners, clients and…
Belgium-based Odoo made a name for itself under its previous name of OpenERP, with an open source ERP application that gained traction, especially in Europe. Over the past few years, the company has expanded into more areas of the enterprise…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced plans to acquire Right Hemisphere, a provider of visual enterprise solutions, to help customers improve the way they do business. Right Hemisphere technology lets customers visualize business processes from design to manufacturing through sales, operations…
The market for business process management (BPM) software has been strong in recent years, as the promise of greater efficiency led to double-digit growth as the rest of the economy stalled. But as with any enterprise application software, it must…
Workday Inc., a SaaS-based enterprise solution provider for human resources, payroll and financial management, has announced that all live Workday customers have moved to the company’s latest release, Workday 14. According to the company, Workday 14 features embedded business intelligence…
Portions of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud computing suite were down for several hours in the U.S, including some unrelated services, on Wednesday, the company confirmed. However, the outage didn’t last very long and the services are now restored, according to…