Category Archives: ERP

SAP decision to spin out Qualtrics 20 months after spending $8B surprises industry watchers

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When SAP announced it was spinning out Qualtrics on Sunday, a company it bought less than two years ago for an eye-popping $8 billion, it was enough to make your head spin. At the time, then CEO Bill McDermott saw it as a way to bridge the company’s core operational with customer data, while acquiring […] Continue reading SAP decision to spin out Qualtrics 20 months after spending $8B surprises industry watchers→

Recurrency is taking on giants like SAP with a modern twist on ERP

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Recurrency, a member of the Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, was started by a 21 year old just out of college. He decided to take on a highly established market that is led by giants like SAP, Infor, Oracle and Microsoft, but instead of taking a highly complex area of enterprise software in one big […] Continue reading Recurrency is taking on giants like SAP with a modern twist on ERP→

Koch Industries closes nearly $13B Infor acquisition

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Koch Industries announced today that it has closed on the acquisition of Infor, announced in February. The company never officially announced the purchase price, but sources indicated that it was close to $13 billion, putting it in line to be one of the top 10 enterprise acquisitions this year. The company will remain an independent subsidiary […] Continue reading Koch Industries closes nearly $13B Infor acquisition→

Microsoft Dynamics 365 update is focused on harnessing data

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Microsoft announced a major update to its Dynamics 365 product line today, which correlates to the growing amount of data in the enterprise, and how to collect and understand that data to produce better customer experiences. This is, in fact, the goal of all vendors in this space including Salesforce and Adobe, who are also […] Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365 update is focused on harnessing data→

Koch Industries acquires Infor in deal pegged at nearly $13B

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Infor announced today that Koch Industries has bought the company in a deal sources peg at close to $13 billion. Infor, which makes large-scale cloud ERP software, has been around since 2002 and counts Koch as both a customer and an investor, so the deal makes sense on that level. Koch was lead investor last […] Continue reading Koch Industries acquires Infor in deal pegged at nearly $13B→

Infor lands $1.5 billion investment ahead of possible IPO

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Infor, a NYC-based enterprise software company, announced a massive $1.5 billion investment today that could be the precursor to an IPO down the road. One analyst is estimating that the valuation could be at least $60 billion. The investment is being led by Koch Industries’ investment arm, Koch Equity Development, and Golden Gate Capital. Today’s […] Continue reading Infor lands $1.5 billion investment ahead of possible IPO→

Aleksei Tiurin, Acunetix – Paul’s Security Weekly #581

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Aleksei Tiurin is the Senior Security Researcher for Acunetix. Aleksei is giving a technical segment on insecure deserialization in Java/JVM and explains what polymorphism is. Aleksei Tiurin is a security researcher and pentester with over 8 years of e… Continue reading Aleksei Tiurin, Acunetix – Paul’s Security Weekly #581→

SAP gives CRM another shot with with new cloud-based suite

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a mature market with a clear market leader in Salesforce. It has a bunch other enterprise players like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP vying for position. SAP decided to take another shot today when it released a new business products suite called SAP C/4HANA. (Ya, catchy I know.) SAP C/4HANA pulls […] Continue reading SAP gives CRM another shot with with new cloud-based suite→

Critical Code Execution Flaw Patched in PeopleSoft Core Engine

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Organizations running PeopleSoft exposed to the internet should pay attention to a remote code execution vulnerability patched in the latest Oracle Critical Patch Update. Continue reading Critical Code Execution Flaw Patched in PeopleSoft Core Engine→