Most organizations have dug themselves an ERP hole, according to survey

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	Rakuten buys shopping site Ebates for $1 billion Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten has added another company to its cart with the acquisition of Ebates, a cash-back shopping website. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Data Warehouse Builds More Agile, Private Cloud Find out how a large enterprise data warehouse company used Red Hat CloudForms to create a private cloud that including automated provisioning and self service for developers and testers, enabling them to build, test, and release new product versions faster. Learn more In this Issue Most organizations have dug themselves an ERP hole, according to survey How to prepare your CRM system for a world of smart devices SAP to release AR apps on Android Wear for smart glasses in the workplace PayPal subsidiary Braintree to process Bitcoin payments Why Google just rebranded Google Enterprise to Google at Work Office for iPad adds monthly in-app subscription payments How to make accounting and CRM systems play nice Salesforce.com says wearables push is catching on with customers, partners Aaron Levie doesn't want his company to get boxed in Oracle completes Micros acquisition, forms new global business unit WHITE PAPER: CloudBees Ten Factors Shaping the Future of Application Delivery More and more organizations are realizing the impact of delivering applications in an accelerated manner. Download this research report conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to learn how those that are seeking to do so are leveraging DevOps functions internally and moving towards Continuous Delivery. Learn More Most organizations have dug themselves an ERP hole, according to survey Consulting and technology firm, Oakton, has unveiled the results of a survey it has had commissioned with clients on their current and future ERP implementation plans. And the conclusions that can be drawn from it aren't pretty. Read More How to prepare your CRM system for a world of smart devices As they get ready for the era of IoT, companies must remember to include CRM in the mix. Read More SAP to release AR apps on Android Wear for smart glasses in the workplace SAP this week will begin selling two workplace-related augmented reality apps for use with Android Wear smart glasses. Read More PayPal subsidiary Braintree to process Bitcoin payments Online payments platform Braintree will start processing Bitcoin transactions, allowing merchants to accept payments in the crypto-currency. Read More Why Google just rebranded Google Enterprise to Google at Work The rebrand reflects a sea change change in how companies buy IT products. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Video is the New Document: Four Things You Can't Miss Download this research summary to find out the 4 reasons why video is quickly replacing print media and see how this can fit in with your organizations content strategy plan for 2014. Learn more >> Office for iPad adds monthly in-app subscription payments Microsoft is now letting customers subscribe to Office 365 in monthly payments within its Office for iPad apps. Read More How to make accounting and CRM systems play nice It's a natural request: Integrate CRM with expense claim, accounts receivable and other accounting systems. It's also a bad idea, because accountants are from Mars and salespeople are from Venus. Read More Salesforce.com says wearables push is catching on with customers, partners A few months after launching a developer toolkit for writing apps that run on wearable devices, Salesforce.com says the concept is gaining traction with customers and partners. Read More Aaron Levie doesn't want his company to get boxed in When Aaron Levie co-founded Box in 2004, he envisioned how businesses would benefit from cloud storage and file sharing -- improved data access and collaboration -- and, since few vendors grasped this, Box cashed in when this technology got popular years later. Read More Oracle completes Micros acquisition, forms new global business unit Oracle has wrapped up its US$5.3 billion acquisition of Micros, maker of hardware and software for the hospitality industry, in its biggest deal since the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010. Read More
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