Getting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace
Forbes
And now that the company has announced its plans to acquire SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion, the company has become a very serious player in the $130 billion HR software and services marketplace. SAP has quite a legacy of experience in the HR market.
SAP sets 2012 outlook with SuccessFactors in foldZDNet (blog)
SAP Takes On Oracle Database, Salesforce CloudInformationWeek
India jumping a generation of tech adoption: Jim Hagemann SnabeBusiness Standard
Wall Street Journal -Toronto Star -Business Day
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SAP Takes On Oracle Database, Salesforce Cloud
InformationWeek
In the cloud, however, and without its planned acquisition of SuccessFactors, SAP wouldn't hold a candle to Salesforce.com. Even with the addition, SAP likes to talk about SuccessFactor's 15 million end users, it's acquiring a broad-but-shallow …
India jumping a generation of tech adoption: Jim Hagemann SnabeBusiness Standard
SAP co-CEO sees 2012 margins flat vs 2011Reuters
Inside SAP's Skunkworks as It Takes Aim at OracleWall Street Journal
ITProPortal
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Salesforce.com Rypple Buy Counters SAP SuccessFactors Bid
eWeek
15, answering SAP's big, $3.4 billion bid for SuccessFactors from earlier this month. SuccessFactors and Rypple are part of the bumper crop of cloud computing startups whose tools help human resource managers keep companies running smoothly and well. …
The Coming War for the Social WorkplaceNew York Times (blog)
As Marc Benioff Cranks Up M&A, Is Pre-IPO Workday a Target?Forbes
Salesforce.com and WorkSimple Drive the Future of Social PerformancePR-CANADA.net (press release)

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Marc Benioff's Miracles: Emulates SAP, Ends TechCrunch Coma
Forbes
Here are the details: in early December, SAP agreed to acquire leading cloud-based HCM vendor SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion, and said Lars Dalgaard's company would retain its name and be called “SuccessFactors, an SAP company. …
Salesforce Makes A Rypple With New AcquisitionWall Street Journal (blog)
Salesforce snubs SAP with Rypple flipZDNet (blog)
Salesforce.com – the HCM company?BusinessCloud9
TechCrunch -eWeek -PCWorld
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Oracle, SAP Slowly Raising Stakes in the Cloud
Proformative
The traditional power structure of the technology industry has come into question in recent years as pioneers such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite and SuccessFactors have enjoyed impressive success as early adopters of cloud-based business models. …

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Egnyte: Killing the Dreaded File Server
Forbes
With the surge in the cloud — as seen with the success of companies like Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), SuccessFactors (Nasdaq:SFSF), Cornerstone OnDemand (Nasdaq:CSOD) and NetSuite (NYSE:N) — the traditional file server does look like a technological …

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What About Other Cloud Bubbles? Focus On Netsuite And SuccessFactors
Seeking Alpha
This article will focus on two of them: Netsuite (N) and SuccessFactors (SFSF). While Salesforce.com is mostly a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) vendor, Netsuite is more diversified. It sells a cloud-based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) …

SuccessFactors Earnings In Retrospect: Up 9.3% in the Last 17 Days (SFSF)
Financial News Network Online
When SuccessFactors (NASDAQ:SFSF) reported earnings two weeks ago on October 26th, 2011, analysts, on average, expected the company to report earnings of $0.01 on sales of $88.5 million. SuccessFactors actually reported earnings of $0.07 per share on …

Oracle To Buy RightNow; NetSuite, SuccessFactors Jump
Investor’s Business Daily
NetSuite (N)was up more than 7% and SuccessFactors (SFSF) nearly 7%. Even cloud leader Salesforce was up more than 1%, but at a market cap of nearly $18 billion, it would be a hefty acquisition for even the largest companies. As of Aug. …
Oracle to acquire RightNow for $1.5 billionCNET
Here's Why Cloud Computing Stocks are in Demand NowWall St. Cheat Sheet
RightNow buy opens Oracle's SaaS gambitZDNet (blog)

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SuccessFactors to Deliver Global Business Execution Solution with NEC
MarketWatch (press release)
As part of the relationship, NEC will resell SuccessFactors' Business Execution (BizX) software through NEC global cloud-based global human resource management solution "Cultiiva Global/HM". The solution will be sold by NEC's global sales force and …

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