Enterprise Applications

Enterprise software vendor SAP has added eight new applications to its HANA in-memory platform. The apps deliver such business services as sales and operations planning, financials and supplier management. - SAP is throwing more support behind its HANA in-memory computing platform with the introduction of eight new business applications, a mix of on-premise and cloud-delivered solutions. At its Sapphire user conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP launched HANA apps such as the Sales and Operations Planning t...

At its Sapphire conference, SAP unveiled an accelerated cloud strategy for four business categories based in part on its acquisition of SuccessFactors in February. - SAP is rolling out a suite of cloud-delivered applications that are tied to its February acquisition of SuccessFactors. The strategy is to offer cloud computing and application services for businesses in four specific categories: people, money, customers and suppliers. SAP executives detailed the c...

At its Synergy conference, Citrix introduced Project Avalon, which will convert its XenDesktop and XenApp virtual thin-client platforms into a full-scale multitenant cloud service. - SAN FRANCISCO Citrix is launching what it calls Project Avalon to take its virtualization and cloud computing platforms to the next level by delivering a Microsoft Windows desktop and all its related applications as a cloud service. Citrix provided details about Project Avalon along with other ...

IBM announced an agreement to acquire Tealeaf Technologies, a maker of customer-experience analytics software. - IBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Tealeaf Technology, a provider of customer-experience analytics software that helps organizations to gain intelligence and react more swiftly to consumer trends. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but IBM said it expects ...

Jive is offering a free 30-day trail of its revamped social business platform, with new applications and an updated user interface. - Social business software developer Jive Software announced the next-generation platform of its business-focused social media service, featuring a simplified user experience and new applications. The new platform is available in the cloud and via Try Jive, for a promotional, free 30-day trial. The pl...

Teradata will combine its analytics with the Aprimo integrated marketing management to work hand-in-hand with eCircle's digital messaging solution to create a new suite of marketing software and services. - Enterprise analytics and data center software maker Teradata (NYSE:TDC) May 2 said it is acquiring Munich-based eCircle, a regional provider of cloud-based digital marketing services. Financial details of the transaction were not released. Teradata said it will combine its analytics with it...

With innovation as the overall theme of its Impact 2012 conference here, IBM (NYSE:IBM) unveiled its first-ever Mobile Foundation, a comprehensive portfolio of software and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments, including laptops, smartphones and tablets. Building on its recent acquisition of Worklight, the new foundation further expands IBM's strategy to provide clients with a mobile platform that spans application development, integration, security and management. For example, using the IBM Mobile Foundation, an airline can transform the way it interacts with its customers by establishing a secure two-way relationship with mobile applications. Airlines can use these new types of applications not only to keep customers apprised of their travel plans and current weather conditions, but also to send push-notifications to alert them if there are changes or opportunities for upgrades. This is all made possible by deep integration into the airlines' back-end systems and relevant cloud computing services. The IBM Mobile Foundation is targeting a $22 billion market opportunity that is expected to grow to $36 billion in 2015. In an IBM survey of more than 700 CIOs, about 75 percent of respondents said they are embracing a mobile strategy because a flexible workplace delivers a 20 percent improvement in employee productivity. The CIOs said they are significantly reducing the cost of doing business by decreasing dependence on email, improving social collaboration and adopting cloud technologies to reach mobile workers. Here, eWEEK looks at some of the highlights from the show.  - ...

At its IBM Impact 2012 conference in Las Vegas, IBM introduced new business process management and other software to help integrate social, cloud and mobile technologies. - LAS VEGAS – IBM introduced a series of new business-integration software offerings to help enterprises leverage the collaborative capabilities of social media, mobile and cloud computing into their enterprise apps. The latest release of IBMs WebSphere application server, which is used by more t...

While reliance on open-source components increases limitations on the visibility, control and management of their use continues to plague organizations. - Organizations of all sizes continue to adopt open-source platforms and applications at an accelerated pace, but lack of internal controls and flawed processes continue to be a challenge putting organizations at unnecessary risk, according to a survey by software developer Sonatype of more than 2,500...

The former CEO testifies to the court that Google used only the names of the application programming interfaces, not the APIs themselves. - Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took a turn in the testimony chair April 24, defending his company's decision to go its own way in using Java to help build its now-hugely popular Android mobile device operating system. Schmidt made his first appearance in the nine-day-old copyright-infringem...

The application of new-generation analytics to collected business data, especially when involving the large workloads that are becoming standard in data centers, is becoming a prime-time conversation. Savvy line-of-business people know that wringing good information and advice out of various streams of business data can show patterns that can help predict the future and if you have an idea of what the future holds, you have a huge competitive advantage and stand to improve profit margins. Thanks to powerful multicore processors, the tech industry now has the computing power to process more data; with improved storage, the security and capacity at reasonable cost to protect it; and with new-gen networking, the bandwidth to move it efficiently from one place to another. Now, the market has incredibly fast analytics software and services to go with all the above. Here, eWEEK showcases 10 significant new players in this burgeoning space. - ...

"We only used elements of the Java programming language that are freely available in the public domain," Page told presiding Judge William Alsup and a 12-person jury in the copyright trial. - It took Google CEO Larry Page the better part of an hour to admit with a definitive quot;no quot; that his company didn't take out a license for using Java application programming interfaces, but the company co-founder also contended in court April 18 that at the time his company didn't believe it ...

Its not often that productivity becomes a major concern in the Mac OS X ecosystem. More often than not, companies are wondering how they can make employees do more in less time, and for the most part, those workers are using Windows. Time and again IT decision makers are trying to find ways to get more from their employees, and that means downloading new programs on Windows. Now, though, Mac OS X has become a more-desirable destination for the enterprise, making productivity a major concern. Even todays consumers who arent using Mac OS X in the office are accessing more applications to make themselves as productive as possible on Apples operating system. These factors make it a good time to look through the Mac App Store and find 10 applications that will help improve productivity on Mac OS X. Most of the apps are paid, which means being more productive requires an investment, but when its all said and done, it might just be worth it. Flip through the following slides to find out which Mac OS X productivity apps, all available in the Mac App Store, you should be using. - ...

IBM plans to acquire Varicent, a maker of software that automates and analyzes the collection and reporting of sales data across finance, sales, human resources and IT departments. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) continued on its shopping spree for analytics expertise with its acquisition of Varicent Software, a provider of analytics software for compensation and sales performance management solutions. The acquisition advances IBM's efforts to drive analytics capabilities into the hands of...

The German enterprise middleware and database specialist also reveals that its new HANA in-memory database will become available for virtually all its products. - SAN FRANCISCO -- SAP, one of the international masters of the on-site enterprise application and middleware world, and mobile IT are two terms that hadn't been mentioned in the same sentence too often before April 10. That's because the German software and database products and services company had...

In addition, Microsoft said it is ending support for Windows XP, launched in 2001, and Office 2003, two years from now. - For the admittedly limited number of Microsoft Vista fans out there, your time is running out. Microsoft plans to retire mainstream support for the much-maligned operating system this week as well as for Office 2007. Microsoft said it would offer extended support for both systems until 2017, bu...

Make Technologies' TLM Enterprise Suite provides application modernization software and services that the company claims reduces the cost, risk and time required to re-engineer applications. - Collecting new companies is now officially a habit for Dell. The Round Rock, Texas-based corporation on April 5 revealed it has bought yet another one, 13-year-old Make Technologies Dell's 16th acquisition in two years and third this week alone. Terms of the deal were not released by Dell. Dell als...

Celebrating math, IBM has produced a new math app for the iPad called Minds of Modern Mathematics. - To celebrate the history of math and its impact on the world, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released Minds of Modern Mathematics, a new iPad app. The new app re-imagines a classic 50-foot infographic on the history of math. The husband-and-wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames created the infographic, wh...

A recent Gartner report indicates that IBM was the leader in the middleware market for 2011--the 11th year in a row Big Blue has taken the honor. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) is the market-share leader in middleware software for the eleventh consecutive year, according to research firm Gartner. According to a Gartner report, IBM was the leading software vendor in 2011, with 32.1 percent market share, extending its lead to nearly double that of its closes...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The deal for venerable thin-client and VDI provider enables Dell to add a new portfolio of cloud-system software and to backfill on other necessary pieces of IT. - Dell is now officially a Big Tent: a benevolent sponsor of new IT acts that sells a lot of tickets in its traveling circus. The latest headliner for the center ring in Round Rock, Texas, is 31-year-old IT industry survivor Wyse Technology, which was born in 1981 during the Reagan Administration, wh...