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9 February 2012

Company Analysis in Business Applications

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Licence complexity a blemish on SAP’s reinvention

22 November 2011

Applications 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?

05 September 2011

The SaaS provider’s rhetorical thrust this year is ‘the social enterprise’ and one new service in particular invites comparison to a certain social network. Is that a good thing?

Platform approach helps Misys capture African innovation

23 March 2011

The UK software maker sees its SOA platform as an opportunity to connect African banks with the continent's technological revolution

Concur buys Tripit to explore the semantics of travel expenses

23 February 2011

Expense management company acquires semantic web start-up to simplify business travel expenses

Salesforce.com beefs up its platform play

14 December 2010

On demand CRM provider hopes two major new announcements will help its "platform-as-a-service" strategy live up to its potential

Can SAP sustain its turnaround?

24 November 2010

Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of enterprise applications vendor SAP, tells Information Age how he plans to maintain the company's new-found momentum

Long term doubts for Microsoft and IBM

16 November 2010

With the worst of the economic downturn behind them, IT vendors can focus once again on the long game – but not all of them are winning. Plus, SAP and Xerox

Collaboration the key to innovation, Atlassian claims

15 November 2010

Collaboration software provider Atlassian says that some of the biggest technology companies in the world are using its products to forge innovation

Infor appoints Oracle’s acquisition mastermind

15 November 2010

Infor's appointment of Charles Phillips as CEO suggests acquisitions are still very much on the cards for the ERP software vendor

Nimbus plots to crack America

14 October 2010

The head of UK-based business process management vendor Nimbus explains why he is relocating to Silicon Valley

HP’s CEO choice hints at software plan

14 October 2010

Hewlett-Packard's appointment of a former SAP boss as CEO was unexpected, and hints at a long-term software plan at the world's largest IT company

Ex-Micro Focus CEO reappears as CloudApps director

19 August 2010

Stephen Kelly buys into carbon management software-as-a-service provider, arguing that green tech could be an area where "the UK leads the world"

IT spending resurgence rolls on

14 July 2010

Improved business IT spending kept the sector's recovery rolling, but suppliers with a consumer division wrestled with a foe even more fearsome than the credit crunch

CDC Software buys into SaaS for global reach

13 July 2010

China-backed application vendor is building global platform for business, says CEO Peter Yip

IBM and SAP pursue big deals

18 June 2010

The giants of the IT industry have their wallets well and truly open, and May 2010 saw some big-name companies change hands

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Financial Results in Business Applications
Company	Period	Revenue ($m)	Rev Change (%)
Chordiant Software Inc	1Q09	$23.4	-20%
ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd	4Q08	$14.1	36%
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

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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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