SAP announced two significant acquisitions at its SAPPHIRE ’07 international customer conference in Vienna, Austria. The one that directly impacts the enterprise software giant’s flagship NetWeaver platform is the purchase of MaXware, a privately-held provider of identity management software with…
It’s no mystery what motivates a salesperson: It’s good, old-fashioned money. Salespeople naturally want to earn large commissions, which means large revenue for your business. It’s the ultimate win-win situation. Of course, tracking sales compensation can be a time-consuming task.…
For your small businesses to succeed, you know you need to stay on top of what’s happening in your industry as well as with your competitors, suppliers and partners. And you need your employees to do the same. RSS technology…
No need to shake the box. It’s another tie. Microsoft has unwrapped a sleigh-full of presents for its partners and customers, including enhanced developer tools and new software integrations. The software tools are intended to help developers write new applications…
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…
Go to the nomination formWhether you’re trying to streamline costs or grow revenue, technology is an ever-increasing part of the equation in the formula for small business success. The good news is that the product choices have gotten broader and…
A new company announced its launch on Tuesday, offering a sales compensation management application on demand. Xactly will provide Xactly Incent on the software-as-service model to automate the process of setting and calculating sales commissions. The service is designed for…
When it comes to the power of presence in applications, “we’re just scratching the surface,” Ed Simnett, senior product manager for the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft, told InstantMessagingPlanet.com. “Presence is becoming a normal part of information workers bag of…
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…