Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Chris Kanaracus

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...

Article | 22/04/2013 Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform

Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as...

Article | 18/04/2013 SAP's first quarter: The key questions

SAP will announce its first-quarter 2013 earnings on Friday, a report that will get heavy scrutiny from company watchers. Here's a look at some of the...

Article | 17/04/2013 Firm says Epicor wants to 'monopolize' services market for its ERP software

An IT services firm recently sued by Epicor has responded, calling the claims "unwarranted" and part of an attempt on Epicor's part to "monopolize" th...

Article | 16/04/2013 Google's Eric Schmidt talks Facebook Home, 'phenomenal' new Motorola devices

Google won't do anything to thwart Facebook's recently launched Home software for Android devices if it becomes explosively popular, according to Goog...

Article | 16/04/2013 Oracle shipping 128 patches for apps, database and middleware

Oracle is planning to release 128 patches on Tuesday covering security weaknesses that affect "hundreds" of its products.

Article | 12/04/2013 Oracle's Mark Hurd talks Fusion Applications, customer satisfaction and SAP's HANA

As co-president of Oracle, Mark Hurd is tasked with selling an ever-increasing array of new software and hardware products, such as the Exadata databa...

Article | 10/04/2013 Oracle wants to be easier to work with, Mark Hurd says

Oracle's sales force isn't usually seen as the easiest to work with, with customers bombarded by multiple account representatives from different produ...

Article | 9/04/2013 Oracle's Mark Hurd, users weigh in on third-party software maintenance

Oracle co-President Mark Hurd weighed in on the contentious topic of third-party software maintenance at the Collaborate user group conference in Denv...

Article | 9/04/2013 Oracle rolls out new in-memory applications, scaled-down Big Data Appliance

Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between it...

Article | 9/04/2013 Salesforce.com launches new services for mobile app development

Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform.

Article | 8/04/2013 Oracle updates Primavera project portfolio management software

Oracle has rolled out a series of upgrades and new features for the PPM (project portfolio management) software suite it gained through the 2008 acqui...

Article | 5/04/2013 SAP's effort to get startups on HANA bandwagon chugging along

SAP has spent the past year wooing entrepreneurs around the world in hopes they'll be entranced enough by its much-hyped HANA in-memory database to bu...

Article | 4/04/2013 Oracle's strategies to get real-world verdict at Collaborate user event

Oracle's sprawling annual OpenWorld conference doesn't kick off until September, but next week the Oracle user group-backed Collaborate event will be ...