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• SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  By Chris Kanaracus | 17 May, 2012 00:23

  SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.

• SAP rolls out new mobile apps, boosts HTML5, iOS, Android support

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 00:42

  SAP on Monday unveiled a series of mobile applications covering areas such as expense management and e-learning, as well as improved support for iOS and Android devices. The announcements came at the start of the vendor's Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2012 14:06

  Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.

• SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 April, 2012 05:47

  SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle and IBM.

• Government IT strains under BYOD challenge

  By Ellen Messmer | 06 April, 2012 05:44

  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- IT executives with federal and state governments are struggling to sort out mobile strategies for smartphones and tablets that would be used by employees at work.

• Q&A: SAP CIO, Oliver Bussmann

  By Hamish Barwick | 28 March, 2012 12:00

  SAP global chief information officer, Oliver Bussmann, is kept busy juggling two roles — CIO and executive vice-president — at the German software company’s headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.

• IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 February, 2012 01:50

  IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.

• SAP pumps up its in-memory, mobile and cloud strategies

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 November, 2011 18:01

  SAP is expected to make a slew of announcements related to in-memory computing, mobile applications and cloud-based services on Wednesday during the Sapphire conference in Madrid.

• Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 November, 2011 07:09

  Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.

• Sybase IQ 15.4 features 'Big Data' theme, support for Hadoop, MapReduce

  By Chris Kanaracus | 02 November, 2011 00:10

  Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop programming frameworks for large-scale data processing.

• Catching up with mobile security threats

  By Elisabeth Horwitt | 29 September, 2011 08:29

  Development of enterprise mobile apps has been moving more slowly than development of consumer-facing apps, according to Gartner. One main reason is IT leaders' concerns about the security of mobile devices, which are often employees' personal devices, and are vulnerable to being lost, hacked or stolen. While there are plenty of established tools and practices for keeping Web visitors from straying (or hacking) into sensitive corporate data, managing security across a diverse set of mobile devices remains a challenge, IT experts say.

• SAP adds security, management for app stores

  By Chris Kanaracus | 14 September, 2011 02:35

  SAP customers looking to open iTunes-like enterprise app stores through Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP) will soon have the ability to manage and deploy the software securely thanks to new VPP support in the Sybase Afaria platform, SAP said Tuesday at the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas.

• SAP hopes partners will rev up mobile apps sales

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 July, 2011 03:58

  Thousands of SAP partners who sell the Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite and Business Objects analytics software can now also offer customers Sybase mobile technology and applications, SAP announced this week.

• SAP: No change at the top as board extends CEO contracts

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 July, 2011 00:00

  SAP announced Thursday that its supervisory board has extended the contracts of co-CEOs Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott until June 30, 2017, in a move that could give customers confidence that the company remains committed long-term to its strategies for mobile computing, analytics and SaaS (software as a service).

• SAP's Sybase adds scalability to IQ analytic database

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 July, 2011 20:05

  SAP's Sybase division announced the latest version of its IQ columnar database on Thursday, a release focused on providing enough scalability to allow many thousands and types of users within a company to access the system.