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SAP's growth spurt: $6.8 billion for Business Objects

SAP took a page out of Oracle's grow-by-consolidation playbook in acquiring business intelligence leader Business Objects for $6.8 billion (42 Euros per share). SAP CEO Henning Kagermann positioned the acquisition as part of his company's strategy to rapidly grow its customer base. SAP wants to have 100,000 customers by 2010,...

Tags: Analytics, Business Objects, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Business Object Acquisition, Financial Planning, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-07

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Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?

Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...

Tags: E-mail, SEARCH, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

News to know: Social media spam; Sprint; Windows Mobile; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jennifer Leggio: Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Silverlight 3 available...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Social Media, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-10

PBWorks continues vertical path with project edition

Today, PBWorks formerly PB Wiki introduced a 'projects' version of it wiki service. Priced at $20 per user per month with no fee for guest/parrtner users, the service is aimed at a broad swathe of project based businesses such as advertising campaigns, consulting, accounting and marketing....

Tags: Workspace, PBWorks, Wiki, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it’s still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn’t have the best operating system on the planet....

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-01

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Brief: 5

This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals Section 2.2.1 "Mergers and acquisitions" You usually have no real choices...

Tags: Consultant, Merger, Information Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!

Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!Microsoft would do fine without thisMS is going to be printing money for the foreseeable future with Office and Vista so I'm not sure why they need to make such a big gamble.Desperation is expensive, it seemsDesperation is expensive is seems. No other commentNot...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, desperation, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., hostile takeover

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

SAP - Business Objects acquisition: Linking value proposition to action

SAP announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the share purchase requirements needed to acquire Business Objects. Coming on the heels of that announcement, SAP held a special briefing for bloggers with Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP, and John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects. Discussing the value...

Tags: Acquisition, Park, Business Objects, SAP AG, KPI, Value Proposition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Oracle's Charles Phillips: Fusion on track and SaaS for all

In a meeting with Enterprise Irregulars after his keynote at OpenWorld, Oracle President Charles Phillips discussed the future of Fusion, software-as-a-service SaaS, his notion of "acquired innovation" and other topics. Fusion is Oracle's next-generation suite of applications, built from the ground up on SOA principles. He was...

Tags: Application, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Fusion, Multitenancy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Web Services, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-12

SAP picks up YASU Technologies

SAP seems to be getting this acquisition thing down. The ERP giant said Wednesday that it is buying YASU Technologies, which makes rules management systems. SAP said it will embed YASU's technology into SAP NetWeaver to add business rules to its software architecture. The general idea behind...

Tags: Business Process, SAP AG, Server, Eclipse, Contribution, Operational Planning, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Oracle Bids for BEA Systems

Oracle is making a bid for BEA Systems valued at $6.7 billion, reports Reuters. According to CNNMoney.com the bid was contained in a letter to BEA's board. Although Oracle released details of the offer Oracle said that this is not a hostile bid. BEA...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags

Since Workday publicly appeared on the scene in January 2006, it has been self-described as a "revolutionary application platform and the next generation of business applications to drive your enterprise's performance," with applications that will be "dramatically easy to use, be responsive to your organization's changing needs and will...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Workday, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-20

IONA corrals open source SOA assets under FUSE brand, further aligns with Apache

IONA Technologies' acquisition of LogicBlaze last April has culminated in the announcement this week that IONA's providing a coordinated array of open-source products available under the new FUSE family.Based on projects hosted by the Apache Software Foundation, the FUSE components will provide messaging, SOA connectivity, and service enablement for a...

Tags: Apache, Enterprise Java, IONA, Open Source, SOA, SOA architect, Software Development, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Zoho sets out to challenge the software world

In mapping out the online office suite landscape, Zoho stood out as the most expansive and ambitious undertaking. Almost every week the company makes an announcement about a new application or feature. This week Zoho’s Web conferencing application, Meeting, was opened for public beta. Next week Zoho for iPhone, which...

Tags: Web Technology, Office 2.0, General

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Red Hat regains mischief-maker role with metadata vendor acquisition

As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors -- this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. But there soon could be much more mischief from Raleigh.Red...

Tags: database, datacenters, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Java, HP, IBM, IT Management, JBoss, Linux, management, Microsoft, Open Source, Oracle, Red Hat, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-04-27

SOA analysts debate best-of-breed vs. suite approaches, merits of master data management, and ponder a dearth of SOA architects

Read a full transcript of the discussion.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 10, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine best-of-breed versus SOA suites, master data management, and debate the...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, business intelligence, ITIL, IT Service Management, Oracle, datacenters, database, HP, IBM, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Interarbor Solutions, Podcasts

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Google search advertising gold mine at risk

Google CEO Eric Schmidt proudly told the world Thursday that “business is very, very good here at Google,” and asserted the company’s intentions to “continue to do very well” going forward (see “Is Google unstoppable: Q3 record performance defies market conditions”). What drives Google’s financial success? Is there no...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt

Blog posts 2006-10-22

Is open source the way back for U.S. manufacturing?

Is open source the way back for U.S. manufacturing?Relationship to manufacturing...??So how does this relate to manufacturing...??As for IT the solution is to accelerate the process. We seem to forget that there is fairly small number of countries that comapnies can outsource processes or other IT functions too. As countries...

Tags: manufacturing sector, OPC, manufacturing, information technology, open source

Discussion threads 2006-04-26

Truth is: Web Office takes more resources than Vista

Truth is: Web Office takes more resources than VistaQuite beleivable, actuallyAt home I have a Pentium II 266 mHz machine w/64 MB of RAM running Windows XP Home. Is it fun to use? Not really. It takes a while to boot (about 2 minutes from BIOS to logged in and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Scripting languages, Microsoft Windows, Channel management, Microsoft Windows XP, OOA/OOD/OOP, Microsoft Windows Vista, AJAX, RAM, Ruby, Web, Writely, web app, object-oriented programming, Ruby on Rails

Discussion threads 2006-04-25