SAP HANA, the company’s in-memory appliance, took top billing and once again dominated the keynote sessions at SAP’s premier business event, SAPPHIRE Now . This year in Madrid the company announced, amongst other enhancements, a version of HANA that runs SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BW), enabling users to tap into the high speed loading [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Helena SchwenkYesterday, Box.net announced the completion of a Series D funding round which raised an impressive $81 million from investors including Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth. This figure is added to the $48 million funding announced by Box earlier in the year, and highlights the buoyant position [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 by Angela AshendenLast week Sybase held its annual analyst event in the heart of New York’s financial district at the New York Stock Exchange. The event provided a useful forum in which to assess the company’s progress since being acquired by SAP in July last year but also gave an opportunity to catch-up on developments with Sybase [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 by Helena SchwenkLast week I attended SAP TechEd in Berlin, the business application vendor’s premier European developer conference. During an event packed with NetWeaver 7.3 announcements, SAP chose to highlight its on-going commitment to in-memory computing with HANA, its High-performance Analytic Appliance. This version of HANA is designed to enable faster ways to process data from business [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Helena SchwenkIt’s been a couple of weeks since IBM announced it wanted to buy marketing automation software provider Unica for $480 million. Coincidentally it just so happens that it’s been a little over two weeks since I joined MWD and so has come the perfect opportunity to put some of my thoughts down on paper and introduce [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Helena SchwenkUncategorized
Yesterday EMC, IBM, and Microsoft jointly announced Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) – a new specification designed to enable interoperability between content management repositories. The proposed standard, which was also being submitted to the open standards consortium OASIS yesterday, will create a common interface for accessing content stored in compliant repositories, simplifying the process of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 by adminOracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in which Oracle proposes to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash. The $17.00 per share offer is a 25% premium over yesterday’s closing price of $13.62. This acquisition has been long-discussed [...]
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I thought that those of you who aren’t recipients of our monthly newsletter might be interested in this commentary (penned by the other Neil) dissecting some of the problems with the definition (or lack thereof) of software-as-a-service. Over the past few days we’ve been having an interesting debate here at MWD, in conjunction with the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Well, better late than never. SAP today announced the acquisition of privately-held MaXware, a supplier of identity management infrastructure. Back in June 2005, I discussed SAP Venture’s (its VC arm) investment in another identity management specialist: Ping Identity and at the beginning of 2006 predicted that SAP would enter the identity management acquisition fray. My [...]
Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 by admin
