SAP Extends Enterprise Platform as a Service with New Services on SAP HANA Cloud Platform
SAP SE today announced new business services and key functions for SAP HANA Cloud Platform, making it the agile cloud innovation platform for enterprises worldwide. SAP HANA Cloud Platform Updates and Early Adopter Versions of First Deliverables of Partnership with Apple Help Customers Achieve Business Excellence, Attain Enterprise Optimization and Empower Digital Transformation The new features […]
The Battle For NetSuite Enters Its Final Stage
One of the first ERP solutions I implemented for a client about a decade ago was NetSuite . The company was past its infancy stage at that time but was still going through growing pains and was yet to become a public company. When the company filed to go public in 2007, I read its […]
Microsoft Unveils Dynamics 365 App for Outlook
Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 is an Office add-in that is designed to allow users to directly interact with CRM data. Furthering its mission to turn its business email client into a productivity hub, Microsoft released a new add-in for Outlook that integrates Dynamics CRM data and functionality to users’ inboxes.The add-in, dubbed the Dynamics 365 app […]
Not Your Mother’s Artificial Intelligence
Back in the days when “Bubbles,” the liquid-cooled Cray 2, was the fastest supercomputer in the world and before LISP was the programming language of choice in Marvin Minsky’s new AI Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI) had lofty goals. They believed that AI would eventually give machines […]
Twitter’s impact on 2016 presidential election is unmistakable
By: Matt Kapko Twitter has played an outsized role in a 2016 presidential election that continues to test the electorate. Despite Twitter’s ongoing business problems, the ability of a single tweet to shape political conversation and drive media coverage has never been greater. A marked contrast exists between Twitter’s business acumen (or lack thereof) and […]
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 Adds Cortana, Outlook Capabilities
The company’s ERP platform for small and midsize businesses gains new predictive analytics capabilities and an Outlook integration that streamlines invoicing. Dynamics NAV 2017, Microsoft’s ERP software platform is now generally available. In some significant ways, the new release mirrors how cloud-enabled analytics and machine-learning technologies are permeating the company’s business software offerings.This time, instead […]
Oracle Under Pressure to Raise Its Netsuite Offer
To nobody’s surprise, T. Rowe Price, the second-largest shareholder in NetSuite with 18% stake — behind only Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison’s 41% — is asking for Oracle to raise its $109 a share acquisition bid. NetSuite shareholders, including T. Rowe Price, began grumbling about the $9.3 billion offer Oracle originally made almost as soon as it […]
How sports execs use tech to improve fan engagement
By: David Needle HALF MOON BAY, CALIF. – If there’s one thing that hasn’t changed much in sports it’s that winning cures a lot of ills. Fans generally don’t want to follow or pay to see a team that’s always losing, but competitive teams with a shot at a championship typically attract more fans and […]
Internet of Things poised to transform cities
By: Thor Olavsrud The internet of things (IoT) is set to transform municipal life, according to government officials surveyed by the nonprofit trade association Computing Industry Trade Association (CompTIA). “Cities and city leaders are thinking more holistically about different uses of technology that are integrated and bringing different aspects of the city together into a […]
New Zealand Government Takes HR to the Cloud with SAP SuccessFactors Solutions
SAP New Zealand today announced that the New Zealand Government has signed an ICT Common Capability Cloud Human Resources Information System (HRIS) Agreement. Through the agreement – between SAP and the Department of Internal Affairs(DIA) – SAP now supplies a cloud-based HRIS via the SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) Suite to automate HR processes […]