Jump-Start, Re-Start the PowerBuilder Ecosystem
One of the indicators that cause a technology to be categorized as legacy is the inability to find a ready supply of trained professionals to work with it. From the organizational viewpoint, a lack of...
View ArticleSybase 365 Survey: Consumers to Put Money Where Their Mobile Devices Are
Conditions are ripe for the mobile economy to play a bigger role than ever this holiday season, according to a national survey conducted by Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader...
View ArticleSAP Certified IBM’s Cloud Platforms via a Hosted Delivery Model
IBM on Thursday announced that SAP AG has certified its capabilities to deliver and manage clients' implementations of SAP applications via a hosted delivery model and IBM's Cloud Platforms. The...
View ArticleRobert Courteau Named President of SAP North America
SAP AG on Monday announced the appointment of Robert Courteau as president of its North America region. Courteau will report to Robert Enslin, who has been named to an expanded leadership role as...
View ArticleSAP Updates Cloud Computing Portfolio
SAP AG on Monday has announced a major update in its portfolio of on-demand solutions: Feature pack 2.6 for the SAP Business ByDesign solution now offers a slate of new capabilities. According to Peter...
View ArticleSAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
SAP, which hasn’t been able to get much cloud traction on its own, said Saturday that it’s buying SuccessFactors and its web-based software for $3.4 billion. The $40-a-share cash offer amounts to a...
View ArticleJudge Blocks Oracle’s Appeal in SAP Case
Oracle can’t appeal the judge’s decision to cut the $1.3 billion jury award in its suit against SAP to a mere $272 million unless it rejects the $272 million, the judge told Oracle last Friday. Oracle...
View ArticleCome on in, the Forums Are Fine…
What forums you may ask; the Sybase NNTP forums? No, those are going away. Not on the schedule that was originally proposed (December 1 of 2012), but they will go away soon. Replacing them are the...
View ArticleSpot Buying Improves Procurement Process
Blue Marble Media in Atlanta has been using so-called spot-buying capabilities on the Ariba Network and Ariba Discovery to find new sales channels and new clients in the cloud. Tell us a little bit...
View ArticleOne of SAP’s Co-CEOs to Step Down
Jim Hagemann Snabe, whose contract was supposed to run through 2017, has apparently tired of his half of SAP’s CEO job and will be stepping down next May leaving the post solely to Bill McDermott, a...
View ArticleSAP Survey: The Cloud Grows Up | @CloudExpo @SAP [#Cloud]
As the cloud becomes the primary model for both IT and line-of-business professionals around the world, a certain amount of refinement and fine-tuning is a healthy part of the process. In other words,...
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