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2013 could be the year that enterprise apps come into their own. “Enterprise apps today are where consumer apps were three or four years ago,” explained Rajeev Chand of Rutberg …

As mobility becomes a key driver for SAP’s future growth, the German enterprise software giant is focusing on improving its mobile device management solution, SAP Afaria. “Our main goal is …

Germany giant software company SAP has taken a step further into the cloud computing market when it unveiled its plans for SAP Hana Cloud, a next-generation cloud platform based on in-memory technology. …

Merger and acquisition activity during the first half of the year across the mobile and online space increased 3% compared with the final half of 2011, with total M&A transaction …

Even though Brazilian telecom operators and financial institutions have not reached agreement about who should be responsible for each part of the mobile payment process, IT providers are working toward …

Chile’s Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) and German software company SAP have teamed up to offer mobile services to Entel’s enterprise clients based on SAP’s mobile platform. “This is a …

Cloud computing is the new king of the information technology market, and three acquisitions announced this week underscore the point. On Tuesday Germany’s SAP AG unveiled its plans to buy …

Mobile is a key pillar for the German enterprise software giant SAP’s future growth. SAP is relying on mobile platforms to reach its global strategy of 1 billion users for …

British American Tobacco has closed a $209 million deal with Deutsche Telekom’s IT subsidiary T-Systems. The seven-year contract focused on cloud computing offerings represents one of the largest cloud deals …

Following the mobile and cloud trends in corporate applications, the Brazilian Sonda IT, owned by the Chilean Sonda, set its portfolio to meet companies’ need for “as a service” offers …

When mature markets are saturated, emerging regions become great opportunities. In general, emerging countries tend to grow at higher rates due to lower market penetration. German software company SAP has …

SAP’s recent launch of its Business One OnDemand solution, which moves to software as a service (SaaS) and a cloud-based model for its Business One application, looks to be a …

Over its 40 years, German enterprise software giant SAP (SAP) has signed up 35 million end users to its traditional enterprise solutions. In the last 15 months, SAP said it …

Telefónica Digital tapped Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase and a SAP company, to be its global, strategic partner on providing mobile wallet services, which will be the gateway for …

Looking to extend its cloud computing platform, Oracle said it has entered into an agreement to acquire cloud-based talent management provider Taleo for $46 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, …

Big information technology companies posted positive results for their recent fiscal quarter and their optimist outlook for 2012 may suggest a growth in IT spending. However, Gartner recently reduced its …

Smartphone sales as percentage of total sales will break the 20% barrier in 2012, with Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Chile having especially important increases in smartphone adoption. Smartphone adoption in the region will be driven by increased vendor competition, fuelled by Chinese manufacturers that offer affordable Android phones and operators trying to increase their smartphone base to increase data revenue.

German software developer SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its intention to acquire Datango AG, a German provider of workforce performance support software. The transaction, scheduled to close during the …

SAP’s strategy to go beyond traditional enterprise resource planning, moving toward mobile, big data and cloud computing has begun a new chapter. The German enterprise software giant has acquired SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions.

While chief information officers are figuring out what — and no longer when — they will move to cloud computing, service providers are customizing their portfolio to include the cloud. Sometimes the answer has more to do with renaming existing solutions than with designing a whole new product portfolio. Hewlett-Packard is following this path.

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Ask chief information officers about their enterprise resource planning system, and they will probably refer to it not as ERP, but as SAP, using the name of German enterprise software …

Business News Americas | March 25, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski A need to understand market particularities make Ecuador the most likely country for a new SAP(NYSE: SAP) subsidiary, the company’s sales …