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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. The 2010s: Autonomy’s unravelling September 2010: Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is named CEO of HP. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. This type of functionality and scale can be a game-changer for mission-critical applications such as SAP.

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Making data accessible with OCR

Dataconomy

OCR, which stands for optical character recognition, is a technology that utilizes hardware and software to extract printed or handwritten text characters from digital images of physical documents, such as scanned paper documents. More than just an acronym, it represents a gateway to a more efficient and connected future.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. It may be difficult to determine the exact point at which you should leverage one over the other.

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PepsiCo IT redefines direct-to-store business model success

CIO Business Intelligence

Christened SalesHub+, the application was custom built with state-of-the-art software, hardware, and connectivity enablement to facilitate order, delivery, and inventory management, as well as timecard, tasks, in-store activities, and passive tracking, all in one place.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

In addition, Lonely Planet licenses its brand for a television travel series that is screened worldwide, and now it even publishes world music CDs. This emerging space is attracting competitors from all fronts, including software vendors such as SAP, start-ups such as Billpoint, and banks like JP Morgan Chase. You can: • Build.

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Converged endpoint management: reduce cost, complexity, and risk

CIO Business Intelligence

However, by consolidating onto a converged endpoint management (XEM) platform , these teams can finally serve the greater good — reducing risk and licensing costs, increasing productivity, and enhancing the end-user experience. This can also sap productivity and add operational cost, especially if teams are duplicating activities.