As the creation of new jobs slows and layoffs continue, small businesses keep hiring. ADP is betting those companies will continue to buck the trend. It's setting up new services to capitalize on that growth.
Shares of technology outsourcing and consulting giant Accenture have been on a tear lately, with the company bulking up its insurance offerings. Trefis thinks Accenture's acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies could give it a boost, but maintains its price estimate for now.
Trefis has raised its expectations for SAP's stock price based on some of the German enterprise-software company's new businesses.
Microsoft used to be the most valuable tech company in the U.S. based on market capitalization. Apple took that crown away last year. Now, IBM has dropped the Redmond, Wash., giant into third place. So what's IBM doing right, and what's Microsoft doing wrong?
With trillions of dollars sitting in corporate coffers, the spigots of capital flowing to technology are finally opening up again. Gartner Research projects 5.1% growth in information technology spending in 2011. So which companies' stocks should you buy to take advantage?
Software company SAP must pay rival Oracle interest on a $1.3 billion copyright infringement verdict, a federal district judge has ruled.
The same system Apple Store employees use to run credit card transactions on iPhones or iPod Touches is about to spread. Apple is offering it to other retailers, a move that could create a multifaceted win for Apple's enterprise business.
A federal jury handed Oracle a victory Tuesday in its long-running copyright infringement case against SAP, awarding the enterprise software behemoth $1.3 billion.
Enterprise software giant SAP acknowledged Thursday it should have known that its third-party outsourcing maintenance company TomorrowNow was infringing on rival Oracle's copyrights.
Wall Street has been quick to punish Hewlett-Packard after the computing and software giant named former SAP chief Leo Apotheker as its new CEO on Sept. 30. But if SAP's culture says anything about what HP will be like under Apotheker, it may get back to making bets on innovation.
With enterprise computing and consumer electronics converging, special-use devices with integrated software, memory and storage are set to take off. Database giant Oracle, which now owns the Java programming language, could be a leader.
Enterprise software company SAP is willing to take on more large acquisitions, despite its recent $5.8 billion Sybase deal.
With the launch of its new marketplace for cloud-based enterprise apps, Google turns up the heat on its competition with Microsoft and opens the door for a new crop of startups. But are big businesses ready to make the switch?
