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Living with legacy apps
IT budget pressures are forcing many organisations to abandon plans to replace their antiquated but critical applications. Can modernisation of that legacy code offer a stopgap?
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SAP's Ariba buy is cloud talent grab – analyst
23 May 2012Application giant's $4.3 billion acquisition of spend management provider is motivated by cloud experience, says Ovum's Carter Lusher
- SAP exec charged with faking barcodes to buy Lego 22 May 2012
- Post Office adopts Salesforce.com, Benioff reveals 18 May 2012
- Teradata buys eCircle to boost digital marketing play 2 May 2012
IT Case Studies
AngloGold Ashanti moves to single SAP instance
11 April 2012Gold mining giant moves from 30 different ERP systems to single global instance in business process unification drive
- Service management at Brit Insurance 20 September 2011
- A human giant 15 November 2010
- Putting the iPad to work 18 August 2010
Perspectives & Trends
Middleware market swells as IT becomes distributed
1 May 2012
The application infrastructure and middleware market grew by 10% in 2011, Gartner finds – but Progress Software fails to capture the rising tide
- Apple is life sciences industry's second favourite IT vendor
3 April 2012 - SaaS will be $14.5bn market this year – Gartner
27 March 2012 - Video analytics market to grow 21% this year
6 December 2011
Features
Connected business
14 February 2012
Social and mobile technologies are changing the way that human beings interact, and the implications for business are enormous
- Rubbish IT 24 October 2011
- Is SaaS a threat to CIO control? 20 September 2011
- Global Tech Review 2011 23 February 2011
Company Analysis
Licence complexity a blemish on SAP’s reinvention
22 November 2011Applications giant has addressed its innovation and communication issues, user group reports, but the complexity of buying licences may hinder adoption of new products
- Salesforce.com – the Facebook of business? 5 September 2011
- Platform approach helps Misys capture African innovation 23 March 2011
- Concur buys Tripit to explore the semantics of travel expenses 23 February 2011
| Company | Period | Revenue ($m) | Rev Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd | 4Q08 | $14.1 | 36% |
| Chordiant Software Inc | 1Q09 | $23.4 | -20% |
| Concur Technologies Inc | 1Q09 | $58.6 | 22% |
| Dassault Systemes SA* | 4Q08 | $516.9 | 5% |
| JDA Software Group Inc | 4Q08 | $106.2 | 8% |
| Manhattan Associates Inc | 4Q08 | $75.7 | -11% |
* Figures converted to US dollars
More Financial Results in Business Applications| Acquirer | Target | Price ($m) |
|---|---|---|
| Intalio | ProcessSquare | n/a |
| Intalio | CodeGlide | n/a |
| SAP | Highdeal | n/a |
| Micro Focus International | Borland Software | n/a |
| Micro Focus International | Compuware's s/w testing div | $80m |
| Unify | AXS-One | $8m |
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