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Oracle preps for cloud ‘fiscal cliff’
Financial analysts have long predicted that the transition to a cloud revenue model for many traditional software companies is likely to be a messy affair. Moving from a license-based revenue model, where customers pay upfront and then a percentage of that as annual maintenance, to a subscription model based on steady monthly payments, inevitably involves something of a fall off a ‘fiscal cliff’ – unless, of course, there’s a formula in place to offset the more painful aspects of that transition.
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Top 5 Database Platforms - the Developer experience
I was pinged lately by someone bemoaning the state of SAP HANA developer tools and I was slightly surprised. I thought that SAP had done a fairly good job of making things available, but then I am a SAP partner, with paid access to downloads, test/demo licenses and support. Clearly this isn't available to everyone, so here's an analysis of SAP, as compares to other DB platform vendors.
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SAP ports its Business Suite to HANA
SAP's flagship Business Suite ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is now able to run on top of the vendor's HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
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This Exec Has An Outrageous Plan To Make SAP Bigger In Mobile Than Apple
SAP, the enterprise software company, has a crazy ambition. It wants to get a billion people using its software by 2015.
That's about double the footprint the company has now—and a lofty goal for a company that, despite its reach into the innards of businesses, is hardly a household name.
The plan largely rests in the hands of Sanjay Poonen, who heads the company's mobile division and is also responsible for its analytics, database, and technology products.
Poonen talked with Business Insider this week and told us how SAP's going to do it:
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An IBM-ers response to "10 questions you need to ask your Sap Hana hardware vendor"
In his blog 10 questions you need to ask your SAP HANA hardware vendor John Appleby challenged the 6 SAP HANA hardware vendors (Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, HP, IBM and NEC) to answer these questions. Carsten Nitschke from IBM's Systems & Technology Group took up the mantle. Here is the result!
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10 Questions you need to ask your SAP HANA Hardware Vendor
I'm often asked the question "who is the best SAP HANA hardware vendor" and it's not a question I like to directly answer: it depends on your needs, appliance size and who is supporting the environment, amongst other things. But I have formulated a set of ten questions to ask your hardware vendor shortlist. You can tweak them according to your expected growth plans but I am confident that these questions will enable you to select the best vendor.
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Oracle to appeal U.S. copyright damages case: SAP
U.S. business software maker Oracle has launched an appeal on a five-year long court case that could see SAP pay millions more in damages over copyright infringement. On Monday, a spokesman for SAP confirmed a report in the German daily Mannheimer Morgen to this effect, adding that "in the worst case the appeal could take two years," adding SAP was disappointed that Oracle continued to drag out the process.
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IBM battles with SAP and Oracle in HR software market
IBM has announced the acquisition of human capital technology specialist Kenexa for $1.3 billion. The move is likely to increase competition with SAP and Oracle, following their respective acquisitions of HCM vendors SuccessFactors and Taleo. Kenexa specialises in recruitment solutions that integrate cloud-based technology and social business solutions. IBM is looking to leverage Kenexa’s expertise in social media and front-office process solutions, to bolster its social business capabilities. Kenexa supports more than 8900 customers across a variety of industries, which includes more than half of the Fortune 500.
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Microsoft, Yammer and the land grab: Social enterprise lunacy
Microsoft may be spending more than $1 billion on a social UI for SharePoint. Couldn’t one of Microsoft’s many skunkworks teams build something similar? Microsoft is reportedly close to buying Yammer, a privately held social enterprise vendor, for more than $1 billion. The deal highlights how the big guns are chasing social enterprise at all costs and defying a good bit of logic. On the surface, Microsoft’s move to acquire Yammer makes some sense. Yammer is fast growing—at least that’s the perce (Read Full Article)
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Sharepoint, Salesforce and the enterprise platform battle
The largest software company in the world and the ‘no software’ cloud world are colliding, and in the perceptions battle Sharepoint are shining a lot brighter
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Workday interview: Insights from a deep enterprise cloudist
Great interview with Workday Co-CEO, Aneel Bhusri, who discusses cloud, ERP, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, NetSuite, investing, and other hot topics. (Read Full Article)
Oracle CEO glosses over poor quarter by lashing out at competitors
Oracle’s hardware business is struggling, but that hasn’t stopped CEO Larry Ellison from talking trash. Oracle didn’t meet expectations when it revealed second fiscal quarter earnings on Tuesday afternoon. Thus, CEO Larry Ellison and company discussed a few other topics during the company’s quarterly conference call to detract from the negative news. (Read Full Article)
Salesforce, a Leader in Cloud Computing, Draws Big Rivals
Cloud computing, which Salesforce.com has been marketing for years, is now seen as such a good idea that I.B.M., SAP, Oracle and others are acquiring their own players.
But recently Salesforce has won the sincerest form of flattery known in tech: its competitors are spending billions of dollars to acquire firms that do the sort of thing it does, which is to offer business software as a kind of rental service using a cloud of computers inside the Internet.
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Is The Cost of Microsoft Dynamics GP Too Low?
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I once had an IT manager at a large company tell me that he did not include Microsoft Dynamics GP in their ERP software selection short list because the cost was too low. Huh?! Since when is low cost a bad thing?
I am reading an excellent book right now called Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini; he gives some insight into this issue. Cialdini talks about the factors that cause one person to say yes to another person and focuses on six basic categories: consistency, reciprocation, social proof, authority, liking and scarcity.
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SAP and Oracle: the knives are out
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Ever since Henning Kagermann was at the helm, SAP rarely if ever publicly dissed the competition and especially not Oracle. It was something that distinguished the company in the public domain and was to SAP’s credit. Why? While the antics of Silicon Valley CEOs may be entertaining fodder for media types and insiders, buyers don’t give a crap. If anything they find such things confusing. From my perspective, I’d much rather see a company talk up its own accomplishments with customer case references than have to put up with the childish bickering and sniping that characterizes so many quarterly results calls and,increasingly, customer conferences. (Read Full Article)
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Leo Apotheker fired as Hp Ceo
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker has been removed from his job and the HP board to be replaced by former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, after less than a year in post.
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CRM SaaS Pie Growing?
It was assumed that the CRM SaaS market would be a zero sum game. Success of Microsoft would come at the expense of market share leader salesforce.com. However, there is evidence to the contrary. Two specific market events directly go against the prevailing wisdom that Microsoft’s gain would be Salesforce.com’s loss, or vice versa. (Read Full Article)
Kenandy: A New Cloud ERP Provider Emerges from Stealth Mode
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There’s news for those of us interested in manufacturing ERP: a new cloud ERP provider is having its coming-out party this week at Dreamforce, the annual user conference of Salesforce.com. Kenandy, which is built entirely on Salesforce.com’s platform, provides core … Continue reading →
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Hp Ceo Apotheker flies to London in bid to bolster company reputation
HP chief executive Leo Apotheker embarked on an important set of meetings with investors on Monday in London and the US in an attempt to boost the company’s reputation after its controversial decision to abandon the PC market and buy Autonomy at a significant premium.
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Making sense of HP’s Autonomy acquisition
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Unpicking the Autonomy acquisition reveals some interesting nuggets that better explain HP’s decision to acquire. This analysis paints a positive picture so could be wrong. Time will tell.
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IBM’ers poles apart on Google Plus
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Two colleagues who work for IBM have expressed experience based opinion on Google Plus. They represent views that are at different ends of the spectrum. One has fallen instantly in love with Google Plus, the other is circumspect. One is deeply engaged with the socialised world, the other is deep into transactional systems. Both are [...] Continue reading →
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Oracle posts 36 percent incomes increase
Oracle has delivered more spectacular results with fourth quarter profits up 36 percent to $3.2 billion (Read Full Article)
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Why Microsoft’s New SharePoint Evangelism Website Misses the Mark
On Tuesday Microsoft launched a SharePoint adoption website for SharePoint 2010. It takes a similar approach to the SharePoint Buzz Kit they published for 2007, helping internal SharePoint evangelists (often the owners of SharePoint) to set off light bulbs in the heads of potential business users (and turn them into fans). (Read Full Article)
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ERP Vendor Rankings: Despite Cloud Hype, Same Old Story
Forrester Research’s rankings of the top ERP vendors—by revenue—shows a two-horse race: SAP out in front, Oracle following behind, and the rest of the pack trying to catch the leaders.
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