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Article | 29/03/2013 SAP sues to protect customers from patent suits

SAP has filed a court action against patent holder Pi-Net International, which it says has filed patent infringement lawsuits against a number of SAP ...

Article | 28/03/2013 Workday Focuses on Its Post-IPO Future

Workday's HR software-as-a-service tool wins praise for ease-of-use, but it remains to be seen whether the company's financial module will be adopted ...

Article | 28/03/2013 Gartner: Global IT spending to rise 4.1 percent to $3.8 trillion in 2013

Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow 4.1 percent this year to roughly US$3.8 trillion, according to new forecast figures released ...

Article | 28/03/2013 Red Hat, Rackspace win early dismissal of Uniloc patent suit

Red Hat and Rackspace have won an early dismissal of a patent infringement claim brought by Uniloc, in a decision the companies are hailing as a poten...

Article | 27/03/2013 Epicor suit claims services firm hijacked its ERP software

Epicor is suing IT service provider Alternative Technology Solutions, claiming the company illegally used its ERP (enterprise resource planning) softw...

Article | 25/03/2013 Oracle buying Tekelec for network signaling software

Oracle is filling out its product stack for communications with the acquisition of Tekelec, which provides network signaling, policy control and subsc...

Article | 25/03/2013 Dell confirms bids from Blackstone, Icahn group

Dell has received two counter-offers related to its plans to go private, with rival bids coming in from private equity fund manager Blackstone and ent...

Article | 20/03/2013 FAQ: Inside Microsoft's cloud ERP strategy

Microsoft has announced some key details of how it will introduce Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) software products to the cloud computing...

Article | 19/03/2013 Microsoft going after enterprises with Dynamics AX ERP

Microsoft hoped recent updates to its Dynamics AX 2012 ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software would help it grab enterprise-level deals that woul...

Article | 19/03/2013 Microsoft set to roll out new mobile applications for Dynamics ERP, CRM

Microsoft's AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) application will be receiving a set of mobile applications that mix connectivity to back-end systems...

Article | 19/03/2013 Microsoft boosts Dynamics CRM with marketing, social media analysis

Microsoft is hoping to shove aside rivals such as Salesforce.com and Oracle in the CRM (customer relationship management) software market by linking i...

Article | 13/03/2013 IDC: Big Data hype still here, but maturity beckons

Few tech industry buzzwords have gotten as vigorous a workout as "Big Data," but while the hype remains plentiful, it is starting to give way to real-...

Article | 12/03/2013 Intuit fixes TurboTax software after 'unacceptable' glitches affect 10,000 customers

Some U.S. taxpayers may have to wait a bit longer than usual to get their refunds, due to problems that recently cropped up with Intuit's tax-preparat...

Article | 11/03/2013 Oracle, Montclair State University settle lawsuit over PeopleSoft software project

A nearly two-year-long, ugly legal battle between Oracle and Montclair State University over a troubled PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) ...

Article | 11/03/2013 Infor says its push into middleware is clicking

Infor, the software industry's third-largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) application vendor after SAP and Oracle, has been building out its own...