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- Keeping SAP and Oracle Honest?
- From an interview in Computerworld with Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software: Some SAP and Oracle accounts acquired Lawson for some of their divisions simply because they don’t want the incumbent vendor to dictate the future terms of business to them and for them to have all their apples in...
- Tags: Vendor relationships
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- News to know: Browser data leaks; Tweetr; SOA sabotage
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Do you know what’s leaking out of your browser? Symantec vulnerability research founder joins Microsoft.Ryan Stewart: Is Tweetr the first mainstream Apollo application?Dion Hinchcliffe: Mashups: The next major new software development model?Robin Harris: Apple’s Spotlight: keywords are so ’90s.David Berlind: Mobile RIAs: Java, Apollo, and Silverlight’s deathmatch?...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- SAP Does CPM: Et Tu, Oracle
- SAP has fired back at Oracle, in rather short order, with the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a corporate performance management vendor based in Stamford, Conn. It looks like short order of course, as Oracle announced its Hyperion acquisition a scant two months ago. But SAP, having passed a while ago on...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Symantec: SaaS efforts revving
- Symantec said its software as a service SaaS product will go live later this year. Symantec CEO John Thompson said on the companys fiscal fourth quarter earnings conference call that its Symantec Protection Network, its first SaaS offering, is on...
- Tags: Symantec, Storage, Software Infrastructure, Security, SaaS, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- News to know: Apple shines; Microsoft search exodus; Flex goes open source
- Notable headlines: IBM to wed game chip with mainframes.David Berlind: Google gets an F for planned weekday disruption to Google Calendar. Google does the right thing: Cancels weekday outtage of Google Calendar.Microsoft responds to commentary regarding Office bloat.Mary Jo Foley: Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits.Photos: Stellar views...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle, NetSuite, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Bipolar Oracle
- Outside the SAP user conference in Atlanta, the cameras were rolling. Looking for sound bites were Oracle operatives, trying to get SAP customers to say – on camera and with SAPPHIRE logos as a backdrop – that SAP’s software was expensive, hard to deploy, and helped make the world safe...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- The Post-Shai Era II
- On the plane home from SAP’s Sapphire conference, reflecting on the overall impact of the announcements and the gestalt of the conference, it’s easy to conclude that SAP will survive Shai Agassi’s abrupt departure. It may be hard on the press – who seemed to be craving the acerbic sound...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- HP: IT as we know it is over
- Hewlett-Packard executives believe that a tipping point has been reached, and we are entering a new era. Technology is moving into a new context--IT as we know it is over," Deborah Nelson, HP’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Alliances Technology Solutions Group. What comes next is "Business Technology." ...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- News to know: Q&A with Macbook hacker; Virgin IT; iPhone; Microsoft's Volta; Google Apps
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Virgin Americas CIO gets IT greenfield. Gallery: Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release.Ryan Naraine: 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi. QuickTime bug brought down MacBook. Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vistas UAC.Mary Jo Foley: Volta: Microsofts dev platform in the Cloud?Infoworld: AT&T...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Is NetWeaver Finally Hitting Its Stride?
- SAP has bet a lot on NetWeaver, its platform-cum-SOA strategy, and has endured the slings and arrows of competitors belittling the fact that it didn’t reach universal adoption in the two-plus years since it was first announced. But it seems like data from ASUG, the US-based SAP user group,...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion deal
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, wont that require a level of governance to...
- Tags: SOA Governance, Enterprise 2.0, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Podcasts, Oracle, Microsoft, management, Internet, Interarbor Solutions, IBM, Google, business intelligence, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Salesforce.com unbundles Apex platform from CRM apps
- As promised, salesforce.com is unbundling its Apex development platform from its CRM suite of applications. With the new Salesforce Platform Edition, developers can build and deploy applications independent of salesforce.com’s CRM applications. The company expects to have applications in new categories, such as ERP, ecommerce, financial services, human resources...
- Tags: General, Web Technology, Salesforce.com, SaaS, IT Management
- Blog posts 2007-04-22
- News to know: Windows for $3; Home Server; Google data seepage
- Notable headlines:Microsoft, Samsung in patent swap deal. Microsoft aims to reach next billion PC users.Mary Jo Foley @ Microsofts "IT Pro community leaders" confab:Microsoft delivers a new Windows Home Server test build.Ballmer: SaaS to have a major impact on businesses, not just consumers.Exchange Server 2007 Rollup 1 ready to roll.Microsoft...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Oracle's Project X now has a name: Application Integration Architecture
- ZDNet blogging colleague Larry Dignan broke the story of Oracles Project X announcement, which the software giant is now branding as its Application Integration Architecture. This is clearly aimed at helping customers bring together various enterprise applications now under the Oracle tent (Siebel, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, and Oracle e-Business Suite, of...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- BriefingsDirect SOA analysts explore converged governance and the new SOA Consortium
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.The role and importance of governance is growing. As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance GRC platforms, as well SOA governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mash-up, if not technically than at least operationally? Do they lead to an uber governance that...
- Tags: SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, management, IT Service Management, Interarbor Solutions, Enterprise 2.0, Application Lifecycle Management, Software Infrastructure, SOA architect, SAP, ITIL, IT Management, business intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- 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
- SAP: Opportunities lost?
- I developed a spark of admiration and foresaw vast opportunity when SAP embraced SOA at the Boston Sapphire event two years ago. But the departure of Shai Agassi, president of SAP’s product and technology group and architect of SAP’s NetWeaver software, calls into question whether SAP will now hunker down...
- Tags: Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SAP AG, software
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- News to know: Microsoft 'Tahiti'; Intel vs. AMD; Skype beta; SAP exec leaves
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft readies new Tahiti collaboration service. Microsoft fills in its System Center roadmap.Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders. Techmeme discussion.David Berlind: After slamming Intel for using retired benchmarks, AMD does the same thing in China.Garett Rogers: Google Notebook leaves beta, gets new interface. Ground-level...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Corp., Skype Beta, Skype Technologies S.A., Intel Corp., SAP AG
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- SAP in the Post-Agassi Era
- Shai Agassi has resigned from SAP amidst a massive reorganization of the company. It’s in many ways a sad day for SAP, and, if you’re spinning the news from the perspective of SAP’s competitors, it may or may not be a great day to be lining up to eat SAP’s...
- Tags: SAP AG, SAP&rsquo, s, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
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