SAP, Oracle winners as software growth slows

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	SAP and Oracle winners as software growth slows, IDC says A growing interest in big data, analytics and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from IDC. SAP and Oracle fared the best among the large software vendors. Read More WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing SAP This KnowledgeVault has answers to questions in a series of concise videos, webinars and assets that explain how SAP and VMware work together to deliver optimal application performance in a virtualized environment. View Now! In this Issue Infor launches version 10x, plans IBM SmartCloud launch for its apps 6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT Microsoft says Office 365 adoption accelerating, but questions remain NC auditor finds 84 state-run IT projects over budget, late Embracing social media INSIDER 5 lessons for IT from the Boston Marathon bombings WEBCAST: Workday The Mobile Enterprise Today's mobile enterprise requires important data anywhere, anytime. And with mobile enterprise applications, IT needs to offer simple, easy-to-use apps that employees will embrace – without compromising security. View Now Infor launches version 10x, plans IBM SmartCloud launch for its apps Infor is hoping a new social collaboration tool, updated middleware and user interfaces, as well as options for cloud-based deployments, will help cement its place as one of the industry's largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendors after SAP and Oracle. Read More 6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot. Read More Microsoft says Office 365 adoption accelerating, but questions remain When Microsoft reported its third-quarter financial results last week, company officials trumpeted several metrics about sales and adoption of Office 365, the cloud subscription suite for email and collaboration. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems The Art of Application-Centric Networking Application-centric networking solves the application challenges facing IT departments, helping them maintain visibility into and control over applications regardless of where they reside or are accessed from. Read Now NC auditor finds 84 state-run IT projects over budget, late Scores of IT projects being conducted by North Carolina's government are racking up higher-than-expected costs and going far beyond their planned schedules, a new report by the state's auditor has found. Read More Embracing social media Shabbir Baliwala, solutions director for ASEAN, Compuware Asia, explains how organisations and retailers can cater to consumer needs through social media and make sense of big data. Read More INSIDER 5 lessons for IT from the Boston Marathon bombings The CIO of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center learned a few things last week. Insider (registration required) Read More
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