EMC denies sexual harassment, bias charges in lawsuit
Plaintiffs contend discrimination against women forces many to leave storage vendor
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Oracle reported strong revenue growth that aided higher profit margins for their 4th Quarter.
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Information week reports That IBM hopes to tap into a global SMB market worth about $487 billion annually and growing at 6.5% per year with new servers, software, and services.
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Oracle Corp., in accusing rival SAP AG of cracking into its computer systems to steal confidential information, opened an unusual front between the two business-software rivals
After all the acquisitions Oracle announces their applications revenue for third quarter- up 57%!
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Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell on Wednesday said the world's largest software company is still expected to grow revenue 13 percent to 15 percent for the current fiscal year. With a sales force of over 16,000 people what will that mean?
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. 01-NOV-2006 Oracle today announced that finalists in the Gartner CRM Excellence Awards are Oracle(r) Siebel CRM customers. Oracle customer BNSF Railway was awarded top honors for demonstrating excellence in the CRM initiative for "Excellence in Enterprise CRM." Winner BNSF was presented their award during Gartner's CRM Summit, held September 11-13 in Chicago.
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IBM is increasing the scope of its existing relationship with business intelligence (BI) software vendor Business Objects with a particular focus on midmarket customers.
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October 27, 2006 (Reuters) -- SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. posted an 11% rise in quarterly net profit yesterday, boosted by a strong performance at its database division and shrinking losses from its Xbox 360 video game console.
But CIOs can ignore HP's problems -- as long as CEO Hurd isn't threatened
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"The next 12 months are the next biggest wave of new products we have had in the history of Microsoft. I will be quickly deploying all the new products like Windows Vista, Windows Server (Longhorn), Exchange 12, and Office 12 -- all will be fully deployed at MS before shipping. All the log-ins are moving to two-factor verification. ... It is an exciting time."
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IBM on Tuesday expanded its lineup of software and services for building and managing service-oriented architecture systems, debuting a new Web services registry and repository product and industry-specific Web services for health-care, insurance, and retail customers. Some of the new products and services leverage IBM recent acquisitions of Webify Solutions, BuildForge, and Bowstreet.
The company has traditionally targeted its ERP and CRM applications to smaller firms, but a Microsoft manager says the push is on to attract enterprise users that might want tighter integration with personal productivity tools.
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By Mark Brunelli, News Editor
28 Sep 2006 | SearchOracle.com
Oracle may be taking a break from purchasing high-profile software companies like PeopleSoft Corp. and Siebel Systems Inc., but experts say it's definitely not finished yet. Meanwhile, they predict that Oracle's chief rival, SAP -- which usually looks internally for growth -- is getting ready to embark on an acquisition strategy of its own.
SearchOracle.com spoke with Gene Phifer, lead analyst for Oracle with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc., to find out where his firm believes these two software goliaths will go looking for their next score. Phifer also summed up the overarching goals of Oracle's acquisition strategy so far and offered an update on the progress of Fusion, Oracle's drive to integrate the spoils of its buying spree onto its Fusion middleware platform.
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A new war of words and a new batch of numbers scores this round of "SAP vs. Oracle"; what's holding open source back, what's holding SOA back, what's pushing software patents to record levels and more software news of the week.
Oracle's sales have surged past expectations, but can execs really back up their trash talk about rival SAP?
September 20, 2006 8:03AM
SAP and Accenture will work together to market, support and service the new product, which is expected to be released in mid-2007. As appropriate, the new product also will be a component of the Accenture Electronic Health Record Connection Platform, the company's global approach to providing information management and exchange services to the health care industry.
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September 22, 2006 8:25AM
Lurking behind all the talk about SOA are two fundamentally different approaches to software going forward. Oracle has cast its lot with the movement toward open standards and programming languages, such as Sun Microsystems' Java. SAP also knows how to talk the open-standards talk, but realistically, the company depends much more heavily on proprietary products.
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer
Tue Sep 26, 4:51 AM ET
BOSTON - Trying to squeeze more profit from its crucial services division, IBM Corp. is launching an effort to sell more repeatable "products" out of that unit and reduce its reliance on labor-intensive, customized consulting contracts.
By incorporating expertise and technology from IBM's software and hardware divisions, Big Blue believes it can cut costs for its services clients and give the company an edge that lower-cost overseas outsourcers will struggle to match.
"We're throwing the entire weight of our company behind this," said Mike Daniels, IBM's senior vice president for global technology services.
The first two service products, being announced Tuesday, are a package that analyzes communication networks and one that manages Internet-voice systems. Both will be sold by a new "integrated communications services" unit.
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By Dina Bass
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., trailing in the Internet advertising market, is stepping up efforts to take market share from Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc.
The Microsoft division that sells advertising for company Web sites will begin offering ads on products from video games to online business services as well, said Vice President Joanne Bradford. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, hopes to quadruple ad sales in the next three years, said Bradford, who will unveil the strategy this week at the annual Advertising Week show in New York.
The move is part of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft's plan to add clients to a list that includes DaimlerChrysler AG and Visa International Inc. Behind in an Internet search ad market with annual revenue of $6.5 billion, the company is trying to compensate with more sophisticated and customized ad campaigns.
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The vaults of the blogosphere opened wide last month after IBM spent nearly $4 billion to acquire four software, primarily middleware-related companies. Bloggers and journalists jockeyed to interpret Big Blue's big-picture strategy.
According to some, the deals signaled a shift away from services and toward a more software-centric business model.
"The billions IBM is spending to expand its software portfolio make sense when you look at its bottom line," wrote Stacy Cowley with Computer Reseller News. "IBM's software division generates more profit than any other, including the much-larger (Global Services division)."
Others saw the investment as solidifying the Big Blue supply chain, grabbing more market share for its huge services segment
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Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP Americas, shows you how to create a sales team of winners
By Kim Wright Wiley
In 2002, SAP America was going nowhere. The U.S. and Canadian subsidiary of the German software giant had gone through five CEOs in six years and revenue was growing at less than half the rate of the company’s European division. The market buzz was all about dot-coms out of California, and SAP, whose software focused largely on mainstream functions such as accounting and manufacturing, seemed like a big yawn.
But that was before Leo Apotheker, president of customer solutions and operations, and the Executive Board of SAP AG brought in Bill McDermott as CEO of SAP America.
McDermott, then 41 years old, joined SAP America in September 2002 and immediately set about creating a sales machine that was second to none. During the next four years, the stock price of SAP would rise from $9.75 to $54. The market cap would increase 400 percent to $55 billion. Employee turnover (after an initial bloodletting) would drop from 40 percent to 10 percent. Now the dot-coms are foundering and SAP has become the leading business brand in the field, racking up record profits year after year.
It's a stunning reversal of fortunes. But how did McDermott and his team do it? What makes the SAP Americas' team one of the most successful teams in the region - and how can you get what it's got?
German software maker SAP saw triple-digit growth in business intelligence sales last year, the only top five vendor to increase market share, a research firm said Friday.
Sales for SAP increased 130.9 percent in 2005 to $305.2 million from $132.2 million the previous year, Gartner said. SAP's share of the market increased to 7.6 percent from 3.8 percent
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After Microsoft mentioned the possibility of launching Web-based versions of its software in an interview with Reuters, analysts and journalists have set the Internet abuzz.
ORACLE REPORTS Q1 GAAP EPS UP 28% TO 13 CENTS, NON-GAAP EPS UP 24% TO 18 CENTS
Applications New License Revenues Up 80%, Database and Middleware New License Revenues Up 15%
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 19, 2006 -- Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ-GS: ORCL) today announced fiscal 2007 Q1 GAAP earnings per share were up 28% to $0.13, compared to the same quarter last year. First quarter total GAAP revenues were up 30% to $3.6 billion, while quarterly GAAP net income was up 29% to $670 million. Total GAAP software revenues were up 29% to $2.7 billion with database and middleware new license revenues up 15% and applications new license revenues up 80%. Services revenues were up 33% to $846 million, compared to the same quarter last year.
As a past Oracle application sales alumni, I am glad to hear the application side of the house making some serious headway- any comments from the Oracle contigent (past and present) out there?
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