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Article | 25/04/2012 Users: Oracle Exadata's speed comes at a price
Few Oracle products in recent years have received as much hype as the Exadata database machine, with the vendor attempting to use it as a standard-bea...
Article | 24/04/2012 Oracle rolls out updates to JD Edwards ERP applications
Oracle on Monday rolled out what it called major upgrades to its JD Edwards line of ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications during the Collabo...
Article | 19/04/2012 Amazon Web Services offers one-click purchase of cloud apps from IBM, SAP, others
Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a new online marketplace that allows customers to buy software and services from a variety of vendors at hou...
Article | 18/04/2012 $500M state pension software system wracked by backlogs
An expensive and long-troubled software program for California's pension system that went live last year has stumbled out of the gate, with some areas...
Article | 11/04/2012 Epicor customer lawsuit may show danger of going solo on ERP software project
Epicor is being taken to court by a customer over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation, but the case may illustrate t...
Article | 6/04/2012 Sage rolls out subscription pricing for ERP apps
Taking a cue from the steady rise of SaaS (software as a service), Sage is giving customers who run its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software on...
Article | 4/04/2012 Dell buys application modernization firm Clerity
Dell said Tuesday it has purchased application modernization vendor Clerity Solutions, in its second enterprise software-related acquisition news this...
Article | 31/03/2012 Old software blamed for city's failure to collect $17.6M in parking fines
Traffic-law violators in Long Beach, California, have gotten to keep a little more money in their wallets, as the municipality has failed to collect U...
Article | 29/03/2012 California scraps massive courts software project
California's Judicial Council has put the brakes on a long-running, massive software project that was supposed to modernize the state's trial courts c...
Article | 28/03/2012 Gartner: Software-as-a-Service market to grow 17.9 per cent to $US14.5 billion
Global spending on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) will rise 17.9 percent this year to US$14.5 billion, according to figures released by analyst firm Gar...
Article | 21/03/2012 'NoOps' debate grows heated
The dust-up over the term "NoOps" escalated this week, with high-profile IT executives from Netflix and Etsy issuing dueling blog posts about the evol...
Article | 20/03/2012 Microsoft plans Q4 debut for Dynamics ERP on the Azure cloud
Microsoft is planning to roll out its first "cloud-enabled" Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications by the end of this year, the comp...
Article | 15/03/2012 Shrinking budgets spur creativity in public safety IT
Shrinking budgets have driven many public safety organizations to focus on wringing value out of existing IT implementations and take a close look at ...
Article | 13/03/2012 Glitchy state software system leads to botched payments for foster care providers
A Tennessee official is blaming inadequate training, ignored warnings and unwise technology choices for ongoing problems with an installed software sy...
Article | 10/03/2012 Oracle application upgrades driven by end of support
Two new Oracle user group surveys show that customers have a mixed bag of plans for ERP (enterprise resource planning) application upgrades, with conc...