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SAP’s Revenues Up as Company Fights Back Against Oracle
SAP reported a rise in revenue for the most recent quarter, suggesting the company can hold its own in the face of fierce competition from Oracle, Microsoft and other tech giants. SAP’s software revenue rose 35 percent, and total revenue 27 percent, from the year-ago quarter. Operating profit declined 47 percent year-over-year, supposedly impacted by…
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GSA Goes Google With Help from Unisys, Tempus Nova
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has become the first federal government agency to shifts its more than 17,000 employees and contractors to the cloud by adopting the Google Apps for Government platform. The federal agency migrated its employees and contractors to Google Apps in a six-month period, and it just announced the completion of…
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Intuit Launches QuickBooks Mobile for Android
Business and financial management solutions specialist Intuit announced QuickBooks Mobile for Android, providing mobile access to QuickBooks data for the more than 4 million small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) using QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Online. The QuickBooks Mobile application releases data from the desktop and provides solutions designed specifically for a small business owner’s on-the-go…
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iPad TouchPad Xoom Tablets for Better Business Productivity
iPad TouchPad Xoom Tablets for Better Business Productivity Apple iPad 2 ($499)By far the most popular tablet available, the iPad 2 is 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter than the first edition. No Title Motorola Xoom ($499)This tablet runs Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system and features a 10.1-inch display with adaptive…
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As EHR Use Spreads, CompTIA Creates Health Care IT Credential
CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association for the IT industry, has announced it will offer an industry credential for IT professionals who complete training on how to install, manage and troubleshoot equipment and software for EHR (electronic health record) platforms. Rolling out EHR platforms will bring tens of thousands of new jobs in the next several…
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Alcatel-Lucent Releases Video-Collaboration Suite for Enterprise
Alcatel-Lucent is using a combination of its own technologies and partnerships to make a push into the burgeoning video-collaboration space. The aim of the vendor s Visual Collaboration suite, announced July 25, is to offer video-conferencing solutions that are simple to use and less costly than current products from larger rivals, while still offering the…
