Microsoft on Thursday said it has acquired privately held Stratature, a company that specialises in so-called master data management software.
The local division of business intelligence vendor Business Objects has outlined ambitious goals for the Australian market as it settles into its new relationship with parent SAP.
IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction.
The business intelligence market, once the fastest growing sector of software, is predicted to slow down after the recent spate of multi-billion dollar acquisitions.
Business intelligence is the fastest growing software category but skills shortages in the area are hampering deployments and universities are failing to address the problem, according to experts.
A user conference in Melbourne almost goes pear-shaped for Oracle.
Project Fusion will provide a common basis for all Oracle applications and compete head-to-head with the German rival's NetWeaver middleware.
In the flat enterprise software market, the message is clear: It's time to hunt or be hunted.
The move to Itanium has meant a rocky road for Hewlett-Packard's high-end server group. But the man leading the company's transition to the Intel chip believes the worst potholes are in the rear-view mirror.
There are still too many companies selling too much software to too few people; a situation that will continue till 2007, according to Ovum.
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