Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 3/05/2013 SAP launches free online training for HANA, other new technologies

SAP is hoping to sow more seeds of interest in its newest technologies, including the HANA in-memory database, through a new online training program a...

Article | 2/05/2013 Salesforce Summer '13 release to focus on Chatter, customer ideas

Salesforce.com's upcoming Summer '13 release of its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) software will feature a slew of enhancements to...

Article | 1/05/2013 SAP loses bid to overturn $US345 million patent judgment

An appeals court has rejected SAP's attempt to overturn a US$345 million judgment awarded to Versata Software, which had brought a patent-infringement...

Article | 1/05/2013 Oracle takes stake in ingestible health sensor maker

Aiming at health care as a key vertical market, Oracle has taken a minority stake in medical device maker Proteus Digital Health, which sells ingestib...

Article | 1/05/2013 Half of companies will require BYOD by 2017, Gartner says

About half of the world's companies will enact BYOD (bring your own device) programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees...

Article | 30/04/2013 Oracle lands $100 million ERP project covering 34 colleges

Oracle has won a US$100 million ERP project that will replace legacy systems at 34 colleges in Washington state, in a deal that highlights the continu...

Article | 29/04/2013 Gartner: Worldwide CRM revenue grew 12.5 per cent in 2012

Global CRM (customer relationship management) revenue grew 12.5 percent last year to US$18 billion, a rate three times that of all enterprise software...

Article | 29/04/2013 SAP launches ride-sharing app TwoGo

SAP has expanded its foray into corporate sustainability with the release of a carpooling application called TwoGo.

Article | 26/04/2013 Salesforce, the pillow maker and the $125,000 AmEx bill

Salesforce.com, a pillow manufacturer and an employee of the pillow maker are caught up in a complex three-way legal battle, with a US$125,000 America...

Article | 25/04/2013 Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS

Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develo...

Article | 24/04/2013 North Carolina auditor: 84 state-run IT projects well over budget, schedule

Scores of IT projects being conducted by North Carolina's government are racking up higher-than-expected costs and going far beyond their planned sche...

Article | 24/04/2013 EMC's storage business keeps growing while net profit shrinks slightly

EMC reported first-quarter revenue rose 6 percent to US$5.39 billion, while net income fell about 1 percent year-over year to $580 million as costs ro...

Article | 23/04/2013 SkySQL, MariaDB to merge

Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to mer...

Article | 23/04/2013 Salesforce.com launches Social.com advertising platform

Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship ...

Article | 22/04/2013 Infor launches version 10x, plans IBM SmartCloud launch for its apps

Infor is hoping a new social collaboration tool, updated middleware and user interfaces, as well as options for cloud-based deployments, will help cem...