SAP has some explaining to do at Sapphire

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	SAP has some explaining to do at Sapphire While SAP has spent the past year spinning a vision for on-premises, on-demand and on-device computing, its upcoming Sapphire conference is an opportunity for the vendor to lay out some important specifics on these plans for the thousands expected to attend. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! In this Issue NetSuite aims at enterprises with 'unlimited' push Open-source use goes unmeasured, unchecked Open source's people problem Try to remember: Evernote vs. Springpad Enterprise software spending up 8.5% in 2010, Gartner says 5 innovative tech companies that got it wrong in the end Deloitte buys Oco for BI, analytics Red Hat CEO hates patent trolls, but says sometimes you just have to pay up WHITE PAPER: Cisco Social Technologies Add Business Value Social technologies are moving from the consumer space into the enterprise, and Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is changing how people work. A white paper based on a Forrester Consulting survey commissioned by Cisco reveals the benefits and inhibitors faced by decision makers and how ESS is transforming business processes. Read the white paper now. NetSuite aims at enterprises with 'unlimited' push On-demand ERP software vendor NetSuite is expected to announce a new push into large enterprises on Tuesday. Read More Open-source use goes unmeasured, unchecked More than two-thirds of respondents to Computerworld's recent open-source survey reported that they don't have a written open-source governance plan. Yet experts say that, without one, hidden costs can multiply. (Insider content - free registration required.) Read More Open source's people problem More companies are turning to open source, but they're also struggling to develop in-house open-source skills while keeping training costs down. (Insider content - free registration required.) Read More Try to remember: Evernote vs. Springpad Evernote and Springpad both collect any and all digital info so that you can find it when and where you need it. How well do they work and which works better? Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell A Look Inside the Efficient Data Center In this age of global competitiveness and 24/7/365 availability, enterprises the world over must streamline operations and boost agility. Those imperatives have turned efficiency into a catchword of modern business, with IT the arbiter of what that means for a company. Learn more. Enterprise software spending up 8.5% in 2010, Gartner says Global spending on enterprise software grew 8.5% in 2010 to $245 billion, following a 2.5%drop-off in 2009. Read More 5 innovative tech companies that got it wrong in the end Successful for a time, but failed in the end: looking back at Digital, WorldCom, Netscape, Nortel and General Magic. Read More Deloitte buys Oco for BI, analytics Deloitte is upping its hand in BI (business intelligence), announcing Monday that it has bought "substantially all" of the assets of SaaS (software as a service) analytics vendor Oco. Terms were not revealed. Read More Red Hat CEO hates patent trolls, but says sometimes you just have to pay up As Red Hat grows, it attracts more lawsuits from patent trolls and has to settle many of them, its CEO says. Read More
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