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News Analysis: SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4B Signals SAP’s Commitment To Cloud, HCM, and Social

News Analysis: SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4B Signals SAP’s Commitment To Cloud, HCM, and Social

By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2011

SuccessFactors Acquisition Puts SAP In Direct Competition With Workday And Taleo SAP (NYSE:SAP) announced its $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF) as it seeks to bolster its position in the Cloud and more importantly in the rapidly growing strategic HCM market.   Based in San Mateo, CA, USA, SuccessFactors brings over 15 million subscription users […]

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Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2009 SII Top 35 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™

Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2009 SII Top 35 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™

By R "Ray" Wang on March 18, 2010

2009 Results In Major Revenue Declines For On Premise And Officially The Year Of SaaS
A review of last year’s financial performance should erase any doubts about the viability of SaaS as a deployment option and a business model.   Traditional on-premise business apps vendors took the brunt of the beating earlier in the year but […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Activant Systems, agresso, Amdocs, Ariba, Aspen Tech, Blackboard, CDC Software, Cincom, Computer Associates, Concur, Deltek, Epicor, Exact Software, IBS Software, IFS, Infor, Intuit, JDA Software, Kronos, Lawson, Manhattan Associates, Microsoft Dynamics, netsuite, oracle, QAD, Quarterly Financial Tracker, Red Prairie, Right Now, Sage Group, salesforce.com, sap, SAS Institute, Success Factors, Sungard, Taleo, Ultimate Software, Unit 4

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