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SAP and Sybase officials gathered in Boston on Thursday to reveal how they plan to bring together their respective technologies in the areas of mobility, analytics, and enterprise information management. SAP has consistently cited Sybase’s mobile middleware as a key reason for the acquisition, which closed in July. Along with Sybase, which is to be [...]

SAP and Sybase officials are gathering in Boston on Thursday to reveal how they plan to bring together their respective technologies in the areas of mobility, analytics, and EIM (enterprise information management). SAP has consistently cited Sybase’s mobile middleware as a key reason for the acquisition, which closed in July. Along with Sybase, which is [...]

SAP and Sybase officials are gathering in Boston on Thursday to reveal how they plan to bring together their respective technologies in the areas of mobility, analytics, and EIM (enterprise information management). SAP has consistently cited Sybase’s mobile middleware as a key reason for the acquisition, which closed in July. Along with Sybase, which is [...]

Joining fellow on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite, Intacct is taking aim at services-based businesses with a new product and partnership. Intacct’s Project Accounting application, now generally available, will help services companies keep better track of employee project hours and expenses compared to ad-hoc approaches done with spreadsheets or paper documents, according to the [...]

Ever-acquisitive Oracle apparently has no immediate plans to stop buying up companies, as indicated by a $3.25 billion debt issue it made this week. Part of the proceeds will be used for “future acquisitions,” according to a statement Oracle released late Monday. The question now is where and when Oracle will place its bets. [ [...]

After three years in development, Oracle Corp.’s much-anticipated OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) 11g suite will be formally released at an event in London on Wednesday. OBIEE 11g is being seen by many as one of the biggest updates that Oracle has made to its BI (business intelligence) platform for the past several years. [...]

NetSuite is stepping up its vertical strategy with an on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) edition aimed at discrete manufacturers, the term for companies that create customizable products by assembling parts. NetSuite Manufacturing Edition includes functionality built by Rootstock Software on NetSuite’s technology platform. The companies first announced a partnership some time ago. Until now, the [...]

More details emerged Wednesday about SAP’s plans to build new in-memory database appliances for high-speed analytics, which could set the vendor up against platforms like Oracle’s Exadata. SAP is currently seeking a group of initial test customers to help finish up development on the appliance before a general release by the end of the year, [...]

SAP’s on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite Business ByDesign “is not a fantasy,” CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said during a press conference Monday at the vendor’s Sapphire conference, which is ongoing in Frankfurt, Germany, and Orlando. “It’s a real product. We wanted to perfect the infrastructure. You only get one chance.” Snabe spoke as SAP [...]

SAP is buying mobile and database vendor Sybase for roughly $5.8 billion, the company announced Wednesday. The all-cash offer of $65 per share amounts to a 44 percent premium over Sybase’s three-month average stock price, according to SAP. Sybase’s board has voted unanimously in favor of the deal, which requires clearance by antitrust officials, SAP [...]