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 NetSuite shareholders, including T. Rowe Price, began grumbling about the $9.3 billion offer Oracle originally made almost as soon as it […]
SS&C to Acquire Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solution Provider Salentica
By: Linda Rosencrance SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc., a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, is acquiring CRM solution provider Salentica. Salentica will become a platform partner to the firm’s Black Diamond wealth platform and deepen integrations and support for other SS&C clients, including APX, Axys, and Global Wealth Platform, company officials said. The […]
SAP Announces Third Quarter and First Nine Months 2016 Results
SAP Raises Outlook After Strong Third Quarter Cloud and software revenue up 8% (IFRS) and up 9% (non-IFRS at constant currencies) Cloud revenue up 28% (IFRS) and up 29% (non-IFRS at constant currencies) Operating profit down 9% (IFRS) and up 1% (non-IFRS at constant currencies) Operating cash flow up 52% in the third quarter and […]
Salesforce Strategy Revealed?
By: Steve Brooks The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has published an article listing the 14 companies Salesforce was looking to buy in May 2016. The list is based on emails from and to board member Gen Colin Powell. Those emails were published by DCLeaks. This is a site dedicated to leaking the emails of “top ranking officials and their influence agents […]
Thanks to Facebook, voter registrations surge
By: Sharon Gaudin Social media is more than posts of cat videos and political rants as Facebook showed by getting hundreds of thousands of people to register to vote this fall. “Facebook has demonstrated the power of social media to engage more people to register to vote, helping thousands take a big step to casting […]
How to Keep Costs Down While Replacing Your ERP software
Choose the right deployment Many of today’s ERP systems can be ‘purchased’ on a rental arrangement known as software as a service (SaaS). In the vernacular, your ERP resides in the ‘cloud’ – the software is licenced on subscription basis and is centrally hosted. There is little or no upfront cost to be paid and […]
10 tech skills that will earn you more money
By: Sarah White Tech skills that will earn you more money It’s a great time to be in tech. According to data from Dice, technology salaries in the U.S. rose to an average of $96,370 per year. That’s a 7.7 percent increase and the biggest year-over-year jump in average tech salaries since Dice began tracking […]
Office 365 training courses to increase your expertise
By: Matt Kapko Microsoft’s Office 365 subscription service makes the company’s most popular apps and business tools available via the cloud, which means the features change often. Office 365 users, including beginners and veteran IT professionals, have a wide range of options for related training tools, depending on their needs and levels of expertise. Many […]
Microsoft Announces 2016 Partner of the Year Winners and Finalists
By: Linda Rosencrance Microsoft this week announced the winners and finalists of the Microsoft 2016 Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards recognize top Microsoft partners demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. This year, Microsoft acknowledged partners in 37 categories in each of the core partner competencies, […]
U.S. CIO aims to cut legacy spending, proposes IT modernization
y: Kenneth Corbin With three-quarters of all government IT spending going to support legacy systems, administration is seeking to borrow a page from private sector with a dedicated modernization fund. With the startling new finding that federal agencies spend about three-quarters of their IT budgets on keeping legacy systems running, is it any wonder that […]