IBM has signed a deal to buy supply and contract management software vendor Emptoris in another bid to fill out …
Google Apps has more in the pipeline: VP
Google plans to announce in the coming month or so several customer wins for Google Apps that exceed 100,000 users, …
Big battles in 2012: IDC
Researchers at IDC, say some big battles will be brewing in 2012 in the cloud, mobile and Big Data arenas. …
Tablet industry to grow by 289% by the end of 2011: survey
According to a recent research conducted by Morgan Stanley, 68% of respondents regularly used their tablets to browse the internet. …
Oracle buys InQuira to boost Fusion CRM
Oracle is buying knowledge management vendor InQuira in order to improve the capabilities of its Fusion and Siebel CRM (customer …
BPOS users must wait for Office365 :Microsoft
Office 365 is now officially out, but customers of the suite’s previous version, called BPOS, will have to wait at …
Itqan’s second wave
Growing competition and increasing regional demand for its services are making it bullish to cross over When Feras Al-Jabi, General …
Haves vs. have-nots
A handful of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies have exited the great recession, regained their footing and posted respectable …
Application strategy in a cloud world
Look at where technology is going, or where it’s dragging us, and you see two unstoppable forces that, if mismanaged, …
Molding the Future
In the world of enterprise software, there are but a handful of “rock star” analysts who cover the industry well, …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
Solving the puzzle
There is no doubt that business process management (BPM), when bring right, can bring immense benefits to an organisation. “Business …
Stuck with a duopoly
Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either Oracle or IBM? Loosely defined as software …
Reviving ERP
Everybody knows it. The major ERP suites are old and not as flexible as some newer stuff, and they can’t build …
Red Hat moves into desktop virtualisation
Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualisation platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support …
Cloud computing, virtualization proponents getting antsy
While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in …
Cloud computing, virtualization proponents getting antsy
While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in …
Open-source CRM and ERP: New kids on the cloud
When Nikon decided to merge and consolidate customer data from more than 25 disparate sources into one system, officials didn't …
Informatica brings data integration to cloud via Amazon EC2
Informatica one of the last of the standalone data integration software vendors, is bringing its on-premise enterprise software to Amazon.com's …
Update: Microsoft revenue declines 17% in fiscal Q4
Microsoft revenue declined 17% and net income declined 29% year over year in the company's fiscal 2009 fourth quarter due …