SAP has announced it is will strongly focus on m-Government, cloud, in-memory computing and SMEs at this year’s GITEX Technology …
SAP executives discuss co-CEO Snabe's departure, return to single CEO structure
SAP’s pending return to a single CEO structure is the right move at the right time, according to co-founder and Chairman Hasso Plattner.
SAP's Snabe to step down in 2014, McDermott to become sole CEO
SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe will leave his post in May 2014 to become a member of the enterprise software vendor’s supervisory board, leaving Bill McDermott as sole CEO.
SAP posts growth but lowers outlook in main software business
SAP reported revenue growth in the second quarter driven by growth in cloud subscriptions and revenue from support and its HANA in-memory database.
In-memory of disk storage
CIOs’ ears perked up a couple of months ago when Gartner declared that in-memory computing (IMC) is racing towards mainstream adoption, and that CIOs must reskill their teams if they want to fully exploit it.
Creating memories
Software AG-acquired Terracotta is making big moves in Big Data; its in-memory tools have seen 2.5 million deployments. Chief evangelist Gagan Mehar talks to CNME about the hype surrounding Big Data and the company’s love/hate relationship with SAP’s in-memory technology, HANA.
Oracle’s Ellison spills beans on upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans
Oracle hasn’t even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow, 12.1c, which apparently will be Oracle’s most direct response yet to SAP’s HANA in-memory platform.
SAP goes soppy at Sapphire
With approximately 80,000 people tuning in digitally around the world, SAP’s board of executives preached to a near 100,000 strong crowd in Florida — and the message could not have been clearer; it believes HANA is the future of business.
IBM re-moulds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that …
SAP to acquire e-commerce player hybris to target ‘consumer economy’
Enterprise software giant SAP has announced plans to acquire e-commerce player hybris in an attempt to further expand its reach …