Battle of the clouds: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform
By: Brandon Butler Amazon Web Services is the consensus leader of the IaaS public cloud computing market according to industry watchers, but they credit Microsoft for closing the gap with Azure and say Google with its Cloud Platform has made considerable strides as well. Gartner says as much in its annual in-depth comparison of these […]
Hybrid ERP matures as companies develop better strategies
By: Michael Nadeau Developing new strategies to ensure that cloud and on-premises ERP systems play nice together is just one part of the hybrid challenge. It’s hard to find a company that does not have some form of a hybrid (cloud and on-premise) ERP system. For most, that happened by accident. Someone in the organization […]
Yesterday´s ERP Future is Today´s Reality
By: Sven Denecken Yesterday´s Future is Today´s Reality – why running SaaS ERP is a game changer in the Industry. In the area of Business applications, cloud seems to be all over the place. But it has many facets which all have its right to exist, though it´s a fatal misunderstanding to see cloud simply […]
Hubble Announces SAP ERP Integration to Deliver Real-time Financial Insights
Hubble by insightsoftware.com today announced the beginning of Hubble’s expansion into the SAP environment, extending its CPM suite capabilities beyond Oracle and JD Edwards Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. Community Coffee Company LLC, the largest family-owned and operated retail coffee brand in America, will begin implementing Hubble’s solutions with all-new SAP integration. Late last year, […]
Analysts peer into Microsoft’s rumored Windows 10 Cloud
By: Gregg Keizer Talk of a new version of Windows 10, dubbed “Cloud,” surfaced last week as eagle-eyed bloggers uncovered clues in a recent beta and preliminary code leaked to the Internet. It was unclear what purpose another edition would serve, but because it will apparently run only Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps obtained from […]
Why tech companies are uniting to fight Trump’s immigration ban
By: Matt Kapko In less than a month since being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump has struck an emotional chord with tech companies, generating an unparalleled unifying force of opposition. The Trump administration’s executive order banning all people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from the entering the United […]
Lendlease and ME Bank sign on with SAP and Oracle disrupter Workday
Property development giant Lendlease and ME Bank are the latest high-profile Australian organisations to sign on to cloud-based software disrupter Workday as it takes aim at Oracle and SAP in the lucrative market for human resources and financial software. The company, which has already poached clients including Qantas, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Toll Holdings, QBE […]
LinkedIn looks to add Premium value
By: Matt Kapko LinkedIn is rolling out updates to its Premium subscription plans in a move to boost the value proposition and direct outcomes delivered through LinkedIn data on businesses, careers and education. The changes are designed to make better use of both existing data and the new datasets LinkedIn is gathering on salary, company […]
Top 10 business applications stories of 2016
By: Brian McKenna The business applications of the internet of things have, alongside the emergence of artificial intelligence and machine learning in enterprise software, been the new and developing vista in 2016. The first three stories in this year’s crop reflect this wave. In the field of business applications, Computer Weekly has, in its 50th […]
SAP 2016 results: cloud revenue almost €3bn, 5,400 S/4 customers
By: Brian McKenna SAP has announced 2016 cloud revenues of €2.99bn, 14% of its overall revenue of €22.06bn. This is 3% more cloud revenue, as an overall proportion, than in 2015. Simultaneously, the supplier announced its fourth-quarter 2016 results, which showed a 40% increase in new cloud bookings. The company also confirmed such bookings for […]