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- SAP Sapphire: Reading the tea leaves demand, margins and M&A
- SAP's Sapphire customer powwow concluded this week and the takeaways appear to focus on what wasn't there: Subscription pricing, a sign of an enduring rebound and confidence that the company can maintain its profit margins. Among the notable business points Dennis Howlett has the product overview: ...
- Tags: M&A, SAP AG, MacMillan, Merger And Acquisition Speculation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pricing, Roi/Tco, Marketing Research, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
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- Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years
- Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- SAP: Is the worst over?
- Analysts have been tripping over themselves trying to call the trough of demand for SAP applications. SAP detailed quote has been upgraded twice in two days. Bank of America-Merrill Lynch upgraded SAP to buy from neutral on Thursday given "the low expectation level." Simply put, business isn't...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Outsourcing, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- E-file flap dings Intuit tax revenue outlook
- Remember that flap over Intuit's decision to charge fees for multiple tax returns and its call to rescind them? We now know what the tab was. In an otherwise fine third quarter, Intuit revealed that the fee issues did put a dent in results. Intuit's consumer tax...
- Tags: Revenue, Intuit Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Top-selling fiction books in 2008
- Rank Title Author Format Publisher Publication Date 1 The Shack William P. Young Trade Paperback Hachette Book Group 7/1/2008 2 The Appeal John Grisham Hardcover Random House 1/1/2008 3 The Host Stephenie Meyer Hardcover Hachette Book Group 5/1/2008 4 The Friday NightKnitting...
- Tags: Hardcover, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-25
- Top-selling books in 2008
- Rank Title Author Format Publisher Publication Date 1 A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Trade Paperback Penguin Books 2/1/2008 2 The Last Lecture Randy Pausch Hardcover Hyperion 4/1/2008 3 Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert Trade Paperback Penguin Books 2/1/2007 4 Three Cups of...
- Tags: Hardcover, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- Intuit nixes TurboTax prep and printing fees for additional returns
- Intuit has removed fees for preparing and printing additional returns in TurboTax following a groundswell of complaints. On Wednesday I detailed how user complaints were surfacing over Intuit's new fees. Intuit had planned to charge a fee of $9.95 per additional return, which covers preparation, e-filing and...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Fee, TurboTax, Printing, Document Management, Pricing, Taxes, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Financial Planning, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Adobe on Google Gears, Flex success and CS3 uptake
- Adobe reported strong fiscal second quarter results and gave some color on Creative Suite 3 demand, which is strong, and AIR's role in the jam-packed rich internet application space.Fueled by Creative Suite 3 sales--the product launched in April--Adobe reported record revenue of $745.6 million, up 17 percent from a year...
- Tags: Adobe, General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- SAP under the microscope post Agassi
- The departure of SAPs Shai Agassi may not change much for the enterprise software companys daily operations, but the company is likely to be examined more closely now that its software architect is gone. On Wednesday, SAP announced that Agassi...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, SAP AG, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Apply SELinux access controls effectively: Master the basic concepts underlying Security Enhanced Linux
- Gaining a conceptual understanding is necessary to effectively use and apply SELinux access controls. Fortunately, the basic concepts and goals of SELinux are simple. In this sample chapter from SELinux by Example: Using Security Enhanced Linux, examine the security concepts of SELinux and the motivations behind these...
- Tags: Concept, Linux, Prentice Hall Inc., Access Control, Security
- Book chapters 2007-03-13
- SAP, Oracle under the SOA, on-demand gun
- SAPs first fourth quarter miss in seven years has analysts painting a grim picture in the enterprise applications market as new trends such as services oriented architecture SOA win out. The picture goes something like this: SAPs big miss in...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, SAP, Oracle, SAP AG
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Computer simulation of cancer growth
- For a long time now, researchers and scientists have used computer simulations in physical sciences, such as physics, chemistry or engineering. But what about biology? An international team of U.S. and Scottish mathematicians and biologists has decided to use a math model to predict tumor behavior. As say the researchers,...
- Tags: cell, Science &, Nature, Computers &, Internet, Health &, Medicine
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- European Publisher Streamlines Employee Operations Across Business
- Macmillan Poland is part of the Macmillan Publishers Group. It was established in 1999 as a leading publisher of educational and English Language Teaching materials. As a forward-thinking small business, Macmillan is always on the lookout for new solutions that help employees work more efficiently. As such, Wapniarz wanted to...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Worker, Macmillan Poland, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
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