Sage acquires Fairsail
Sage announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Fairsail. The announcement comes a few days after Fairsail revealed impressive results in 2016 with revenues of £10 million. We speculated...
SAP adds more AI capabilities to S/4HANA Cloud
SAP has announced release 1808 of S/4HANA Cloud targeting manufacturing and professional services industries. This is a monster of a release for SAP. It includes 9 new AI-powered scenarios to reduce...
Red Hat adds Kubernetes Operators to OpenShift
Last week at KubeCon in Copenhagen, Brandon Philips, CTO, CoreOS announced the Operator Framework for Kubernetes.
This week, Red Hat, who bought CoreOS earlier this year, has announced that the Operator Framework...
Forrester’s 2020 predictions for blockchain/DLT
Forrester has published its enterprise blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology for 2020. In essence, its analysts argue the focus will shift to integration and interoperability, from irrational exuberance to realistic assessment.
"Continued hype notwithstanding,...
BP drills down to Workday abandoning SAP HR
In a brief announcement, Workday announced that BP will implement Workday Human Capital Management including Workday Time Tracking. This will replace the legacy SAP system currently used by them. It is a...
SAP delivers a bumper update for SMBs
SAP positions its Business ByDesign as an intelligent cloud ERP "suite in a box". It is targeted at Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) who don't want the complexity of a traditional...
ConnXus and SAP Ariba improve supplier diversity together
Supplier diversity is a challenge and an opportunity for companies across the globe. SAP has just announced a partnership between SAP Ariba and ConnXus at SAP Ariba live today. The partnership...
Workday is rising with record growth and big customer wins
Workday posted record revenues in the fourth quarter driven by subscription revenues up 35% year on year to $436.7 million. Full year total revenues were also up 35% to $1.57 billion. Aneel...
Cloud usage increasing as multicloud gains traction
Enterprise IT departments are struggling to deal with a range of options for their enterprise computing platforms. They are faced with a wide set of choices but not all are under...
Cloudtenna targets enterprise file search with DirectSearch
Cloudtenna is the latest company to jump into the enterprise file search market. It has launched the public beta of its solution called DirectSearch. This announcement is seen as Cloudtenna coming...