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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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8 enterprise web application development trends to watch in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

So, where is enterprise application development headed in the coming year? photo credit: lakexyde via pixabay cc It’s an exciting time in the world of enterprise application development. These days, enterprise web application development is: Rapidly evolving : Web application development is going through major changes.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. We believe enterprise architects are no longer living in an ivory tower,” said Christ.

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Magic Leap somehow raised $500 million to make another AR headset

The Verge

Built for enterprise, it is more immersive and comfortable, with the largest FOV, and dimming – a first-to-market innovation enabling use in brightly lit settings. The company laid off 1,000 employees — roughly half its workforce — in 2020, and was reportedly abandoning its consumer business.

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Startup’s 5G Blackberry revival is reportedly no more

The Verge

Development on the device was announced in 2020 by Texas-based startup OnwardMobility, after it licensed the brand name from Blackberry. The brand name has been licensed out to smartphone manufacturers like TCL and Optiemus Infracom over the years, though each of these companies eventually moved away from the brand.

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