Challenges await new head of SAP user group
The Americas' SAP Users' Group announced its new CEO on Tuesday, nearly one year after parting ways with its previous chief.
Measuring carbon impact: IT's next Sarbanes-Oxley
New environmental regulations coming into favor in the United States, Europe and soon in Canada as well will require many companies to be able to measure the environmental impact and carbon emissions contributed by their business and their product. That will require technology, and SAP sees opportunity for the IT industry and the channel around measuring sustainability.
Novell, SAP bring together security, compliance wares
Novell is integrating its security and identity software with governance, risk and compliance wares from SAP.
SAP, HP to deepen ties around BI
SAP and its long-time partner Hewlett-Packard will announce plans next week to more closely link their technologies for BI (business intelligence) and data warehousing.
Acquire Me! Oracle's and SAP's Next Likely Targets
A new 451 Group report serves up some tasty offerings to feed a possible acquisition binge by the enterprise software supervendors. Oracle's Larry Ellison is preparing to throw a pie at IBM: The only question is who will be the whipped cream.
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Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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