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	Salesforce.com boosts social analytics options in strike at Oracle Salesforce.com said it has significantly expanded the social analytics options available to customers who use its Marketing Cloud, in its latest move in a race with Oracle to offer businesses the best tools for mining the social Web. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue Microsoft kicks off free Office 2013 upgrades After Google disappoints, Page points at future growth chances Richi Jennings: SAP launches cloud services on HANA in-memory DB SAP to give business tools a consumer-app makeover Motorola HC1: Google Goggles for the enterprise Adobe bolsters Reader, Acrobat XI security Early SAP HANA customers separate reality from the hype 45 years of Computerworld covers WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Protecting Enterprise Servers Learn more about the benefits of using HP StoreOnce Backup systems combined with EMC NetWorker to backup enterprise servers. This document also recommmends backup and recovery implementations. Read Now! Microsoft kicks off free Office 2013 upgrades Microsoft has launched an Office upgrade offer that gives customers who purchase the current Office 2010 a free copy of the upcoming Office 2013. Read More After Google disappoints, Page points at future growth chances Google CEO Larry Page tried to put a positive spin on his company's poor third-quarter financial results, which were released prematurely Thursday and triggered a panicked stock sell-off before trading was abruptly halted. Read More Richi Jennings: SAP launches cloud services on HANA in-memory DB The SAP HANA cloud platform is growing fast. SAP (NYSE:SAP) has launched a developer platform, a cloud-based service to quickly instantiate a service, and a training-focused community site. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the German competition for Oracle, und so weiter. Read More SAP to give business tools a consumer-app makeover A series of initiatives are under way at SAP with the goal of bringing its business applications much closer to the ease of use and eye-catching visuals provided by consumer applications, particularly ones made amid the boom in mobile computing. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Transforming Enterprise Application Deployment This white paper reviews the capabilities of HP's scale-up family of ProLiant Servers and shows how legacy IBM Power System customers can move their applications to HP ProLiant Servers to reduce expenses – without compromising application scalability, performance or reliability. Learn More Motorola HC1: Google Goggles for the enterprise Motorola Solutions has unveiled a head-mounted, voice-controlled computer that's targeted at the military and other industries where workers need hands-free access to information. Read More Adobe bolsters Reader, Acrobat XI security The recently launched Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat XI come with new security features and an improved sandbox that will make the products harder to attack and exploit. Read More Early SAP HANA customers separate reality from the hype Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database, which first became generally available last year. According to SAP, HANA provides a level of performance improvement that can be nothing short of dazzling. Read More 45 years of Computerworld covers Relive some big IT stories from yesteryear with this tour of memorable front pages from Computerworld's 45-year run. Read More
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