Closing…closed, Infor buys Predictix
What difference a few days can make. Last week Charles Philips, CEO answered an analyst question about completing the acquisition of Predictix after a brief whispered consult. He said “Well it’s...
Open Mainframe Project continues to grow
Last year, IBM and the Linux Foundation launched the Open Mainframe Project designed to widen the appeal of Linux on the mainframe. The announcement made sense as IBM was just launching...
Xero Banks on water
Xero has recently announced enhancements to the business network that the cloud based accounting software has been pioneering. One in New Zealand sees the connection of Watercare allowing customers to view and...
Xero users get Power-BI big data boost
At Xerocon London 2016, Gary Turner, UK Managing Director, Xero announced an integration with Microsoft that would allow Xero users to take advantage of PowerBI. The announcement made on stage was...
Salesforce opens data centre doors down under
Salesforce has finally opened the doors of a data centre in Australia. This is not one of Salesforce’s own data centres as they are using AWS Sydney Region. The announcement comes...
Salesforce to light up Sydney region soon
Salesforce has announced it will open up a Sydney region before the end of 2017. The announcement came at the Salesforce World Tour in Sydney. It is the growth of customers...
Accenture on Oracle
At OpenWorld this year Enterprise Times sat down with Phill Wallace, managing director at Accenture to talk about Oracle. Wallace heads up the Oracle practice at Accenture for the UK and...
OMG 2020 vision with NetSuite in Japan
Oh My Glasses (OMG) was founded in 2012 with an ecommerce platform that enables Japanese to purchase glasses on line for the first time. They have since grown successfully and deployed...
Xero enhances retail capabilities with Vend
The Xero strapline of “beautiful accounting software” is starting to feel like an understatement. One of the strengths of Xero is its app marketplace that enables small business to take an...
Customers want security guarantees
The software industry has always refused to take responsibility for its own products. Attempt to ask for a fit for purpose statement and software vendors laugh. They have always hidden behind...