ERP News
Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software
Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management...
Wolfram expands into system modeling
Expanding beyond its scientific and engineering number-crunching software, Mathematica maker Wolfram Research released a desktop application for...
The Grill: TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow
CIO Barbie Bigelow led the effort to build an IT organization and infrastructure from scratch when the TASC systems engineering operation was spun...
SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal
SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data...
About 600,000 L.A. Community College students to get Microsoft Live@EDU
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) will provide email and collaboration applications to about 600,000 students via Microsoft's...
Cloud, BYOD Increases Need for Automated IAM Systems
As traditional security concepts of perimeter and end-point defense break down as a result of the proliferation of cloud services and the BYOD...
SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services
SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services, the...
Epicor moving its applications to Microsoft's Azure cloud
Epicor is planning to work with Microsoft to bring Epicor's ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to the Azure cloud service, the companies...
Office Live Small Business is closed, but customers still grapple with migration
The deadline to migrate email domains and websites hosted on the Microsoft Office Live Small Business (OLSB) online service suite passed on Monday,...
At Interior Department, Google Apps will co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for now
Although the U.S. Interior Department plans to replace its on-premise email servers with Google Apps' cloud-based Gmail, the agency will retain...
Sage moving ERP apps to Microsoft's Azure cloud
Following an ongoing industry trend, Sage Group is moving a number of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software products to Microsoft's Azure...
VMware to offer enterprise application portal
VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single...
After legal tussle, Google beats Microsoft for large US contract
The U.S. Department of the Interior has picked Google Apps to provide cloud-based email and collaboration applications to about 90,000 staffers,...
Google makes BigQuery available to all
BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analyzing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period of limited-availability...
LG to launch cloud for sharing content across smartphones, TVs and PCs
LG Electronics will launch a beta of its LG Cloud service on Tuesday, that will allow users to access content across various electronic devices, the...
Most initial Oracle Fusion Applications customers going with cloud deployment
Most of the 250 customers that have licensed Oracle's recently launched Fusion Applications so far have chosen a SaaS deployment model instead of...
Workday update pushes it deeper into Oracle, SAP's turf
Workday is rolling out version 16 of its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software to customers this week, an update that includes...
SAP revenue rises 11 percent in first quarter, but margin shrinks
SAP published preliminary figures for its first-quarter results on Friday, showing revenue up 11 percent year on year, but margins shrinking with...
Judge dismisses one Marin County suit versus Deloitte
A former judge hired to settle a protracted legal dispute between Marin County, Calif., and Deloitte Consulting over a botched SAP project last week...
SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile
SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle...