• SaaS seeds ready to bloom

  By John Dix | 12 March, 2012 21:28

  One expected benefit from the shift to the cloud is the emergence of a refreshing new crop of innovative software suppliers.

• Enterprise software: Why usability matters

  By Rob Stummer | 15 November, 2011 11:10

  The world is more interconnected and intelligent than ever and most companies operate in a global market place. Best practices and operational excellence from a single innovative company, instantly affect the market for another company on the other side of the globe. As business gets more complex, the IT applications and systems that support it need to do the exact opposite -- become simpler and easier to use.

• HP to unveil dashboard tool

  By Matt Hamblen | 06 December, 2005 09:00

  Hewlett-Packard is set to unveil OpenView Dashboard, which is expected to include the ability to quickly create views of complex systems to monitor the health of business services.

• $18m online project scraps Computer Associates' suite

  By Laura Mason | 22 November, 1999 12:01

  Computer Associates' network management suite has been dumped midway through an $18 million online transaction project for the Victorian government.

• HP looks to promote OpenView apps

  By Paul Krill | 09 December, 2002 08:14

  Hewlett-Packard on Monday will formally announce it is joining the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net Integration program, which, when coupled with the company's Java support, is intended to promote multiplatform development of OpenView management applications.

• Oracle and SAP Are Big: Too Big for Their Own Good?

  By Thomas Wailgum | 18 January, 2010 07:00

  The battle and competition in the enterprise software market between SAP and Oracle has fast become one of the hottest rivalries in high-tech. And while it might not have the pop-culture pizzazz of Red Sox-Yankees or Coke-Pepsi, the passion of the thousands of the combatants involved makes it no less fervent or important a battle.

• Could the recession be good for enterprise software?

  By Chris Kanaracus | 20 February, 2009 09:12

  The recession has companies worldwide scrambling to rein in technology costs with desperate vendors responding in turn, offering deep license discounts, providing low-cost financing and proclaiming ever more shrilly that their products in fact save customers money.

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