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We were wrong — so far — that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO by the end of this year, but we were right that Apple’s tablet, whose name wasn’t known at the end of last year, would be huge. OK, so that second one was probably a given, but no… Continue reading →

No year in the IT industry would be complete without a number of high-profile ERP (enterprise resource planning) project failures, ones that burn through mountains of cash, bring company operations to a standstill, generate bad publicity for vendors an… Continue reading →

SAP has agreed to acquire Cundus. which makes software that handles extensible business reporting language requirements. Continue reading →

SAP released a ‘significant number’ of security patches for its Business Suite applications and NetWeaver middleware platform on Tuesday, following an ‘extensive scan of 280 million lines of coding with new, enhanced code scan tools,’ according to the … Continue reading →

Oliver Bussmann, now a year into his tenure as CIO for SAP, has re-invented and raised the profile of the ERP vendor’s CIO role. One key: Sharing with customers his ongoing experiences with a huge SAP environment. Continue reading →

Oracle wants SAP to pay it $212 million in interest on top of the $1.3 billion awarded to it last month by a jury in the companies’ TomorrowNow lawsuit, court papers show. Continue reading →

From courtroom trials to executive shake-ups, 2010 was quite a year for the ERP marketplace. But 2011 has even more drama in store: Here’s our analysis of the key problems, players and products. Continue reading →

This week was a busy one in IT news, with the European Parliament giving the OK to the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, SAP being slapped with a US$1.3 billion penalty because employees of its now-defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary stole … Continue reading →

A jury has awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in damages in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP. Continue reading →

Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker could be going on a software shopping spree soon. Continue reading →