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• Big data - Part 2

  By Brad Howarth | 20 September, 2011 10:12

  A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally resident on disk-based storage and moves them into main memory. This delivers a performance improvement many times above that which has been possible previously.

• Is the future of CRM in the Cloud? - Part 1

  By Brad Howarth | 18 April, 2011 11:22

  It is just on 10 years since Salesforce.com unveiled the first preview of its customisable online customer relationship management (CRM) software at the annual DEMO conference in California. DEMO had previously been the launch platform for ground-breaking technology such as Netscape Navigator, Sun’s Java and Adobe Acrobat, but attendees in February 2001 would have had little idea that they were witnessing something that would turn the world of customer management software — and enterprise software generally — on its head.

• In-memory computing

  By Brad Howarth | 20 January, 2011 09:33

  The massive explosion in data volumes collected by many organisations has brought with it an accompanying headache in terms of putting it to gainful use. Businesses increasingly need to make quick decisions, and pressure is mounting on IT departments to provide solutions that deliver quality data much faster than has been possible before. The days of trapping information in a data warehouse for retrospective analysis are fading in favour of event-driven systems that can provide data and enable decisions in real time.

• SAP-Sybase: What to expect in the first 90 days

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 July, 2010 05:51

  Now that SAP's roughly $US6 billion acquisition of Sybase has gained clearance from European regulators, it may not be long before the deal is finalised. With that in mind, users and partners of the companies have much to consider during the next few months, analysts say.

• 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.

• Rimini Street ups third-party maintenance ante

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 October, 2009 06:28

  Rimini Street fired the latest salvo in the ongoing war over software maintenance this week, announcing that it has expanded the number of SAP applications it supports.

• SAP upgrades: dos and don'ts from an ERP guru

  By Thomas Wailgum | 01 September, 2009 03:26

  According Jon Reed, ERP consultant, author and SAP analyst, there is no shortage of SAP ERP upgrade advice available to companies and IT departments today. One problem: "Most of this advice, as truthful as it is, has reached the point of cliche," Reed writes in a new report on SAP ERP upgrades.

• Ego Pharmaceuticals ups inventory management, supply chain with SAP

  By CIO Staff | 11 August, 2009 11:32

  Ego Pharmaceuticals is expecting to increase its production and supply capacity through a new rollout of SAP’s Business All-in-One software.

• SAP aims to acquire forecasting software vendor SAF

  By Peter Sayer | 20 July, 2009 23:24

  SAP plans to buy SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting, a Swiss developer of retail forecasting software.

• SAP adds Web services to Business ByDesign

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 July, 2009 05:07

  Users of SAP's Business ByDesign on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite now have "one-click" integration with a range of third-party Web services such as Google's search engine and news and financial feeds such as Business Wire and Hoover's.

• SAP wants to help microcredit groups manage loans

  By Peter Sayer | 18 June, 2009 02:38

  SAP hopes to help lower the cost of managing loan portfolios for organizations offering microcredits as part of a partnership announced Wednesday with French nonprofit group PlaNet Finance.

• Vendors look for piece of stimulus cash with new BI apps

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 June, 2009 01:38

  The Obama administration's demand that government officials closely track and report how US$787 billion in economic stimulus money is being spent was not lost on major software vendors such as SAP and IBM, which have quickly rolled out BI tools that are supposed to help meet the mandate. Smaller vendors, such as Actuate, have released similar applications as well.

• Inside the world of tech CEO succession planning

  By Thomas Wailgum | 04 June, 2009 09:58

  At SAP's 2009 Sapphire Show, Leo Apotheker gave no ordinary keynote presentation. In Apotheker's first opportunity to speak to the masses as SAP's sole CEO, he officially took the ceremonial CEO reins from retiring Henning Kagermann, his long-time friend and his co-CEO for the past year.

• SAP: BI tool will help create 'clear enterprises'

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2009 09:16

  Companies must achieve "clarity" to navigate out of the global recession and SAP intends to help them with its BI (business intelligence) and ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, co-CEO Leo Apotheker said during the opening keynote of SAP's Sapphire conference in Orlando Tuesday.

• Big Show, Big Questions, Big Stakes

  By Thomas Wailgum | 12 May, 2009 06:39

  SAP's 2009 Sapphire show in Orlando has officially kicked off. Typically, this multiday schmoozefest lets SAP trot out its executives to meet with customers, partners and tech journalists and talk up its line of ERP, CRM, BI and supply chain products.