SAP Session at Cloud Expo
Cloud Computing Expo - In a surprise move, SAP CEO Leo Apotheker, in the job
on his own only eight months, has resigned after it became clear that his
contract, not up until the end of the year, wasn't going to be extended. At
least that's the way the company phrased it.
Oracle's great competitor said Apotheker and its supervisory board came to a
"mutual agreement." It did not say why.
SAP is going back to the "two in a box" model and has named the head of its
field organization Bill McDermott and product development chief Jim Hagemann
Snabe co-CEOs.
Both are already members of the company's executive board.
Apotheker became SAP's sole CEO last May after sharing the job with Henning
Kagermann since April of 2008.
SAP has also put its CTO Visha... (more)
SAP Session at Cloud Expo
SAP, which flubbed its first billion-dollar run at the cloud, an adventure
it's still trying to salvage, has taken another tack on SaaS and released a
hosted project codenamed 12sprints to public beta.
The widgetry is supposed to be for collaborative decision-making and SAP is
touting it as one of a kind.
It envisions teams inviting people inside or outside an or... (more)
Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a provider of application platforms and
business and process integration solutions, announced on Monday that Adecco,
a market leader in human resource solutions, has developed MAX, a back-office
system for its 200 UK branches, using Magic Software's uniPaaS application
platform.
Magic Software's uniPaaS is an application platform that simplifies the
proc... (more)
Cloud Expo on Ulitzer
SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing
Conference & Expo will take place April 19-20-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits
Convention Center in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's
leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York,
Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over ... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/08/10 -- Thomas Weisel Partners
(NASDAQ: TWPG), a global growth-focused investment bank, will host its Annual
Technology & Telecom Conference, February 8-10, 2010 at the Fairmont Hotel in
San Francisco. Institutional investors and company management will gather for
this three-day conference, which will focus on opportunities and challenges
in the t... (more)