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Database software

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Oracle to recruit 1,400 cloud sales professionals with Europe-wide recruitment campaign

  Software giant hopes to capitalise on growing momentum around cloud with sales-focused hires

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  Forrester predicts boom time for software

  Cloud, Saas and business analytics set to drive up demand for software

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  Top 10 information management stories of 2015

  The maturing of big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL databases has been the standout theme of 2015, along with machine learning and predictive analytics

• December 18, 2015 18 Dec'15

  Exasol and Birst join in-memory database to ‘networked’ BI to aid mutual expansion

  German in-memory database company Exasol and California-based BI cloud supplier Birst join forces

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Oracle Q2 2015-16 results: Strong US dollar affects revenue growth

  Oracle’s Q2 results for the 2016 fiscal year indicate 26% growth in cloud revenue to $649m, 7% of its total revenue

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Ageas moves into Philippines cloud platform for insurers

  Insurance firm adopts cloud-only business application suite to support south-east Asian expansion

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Mobile advertising network Billy Mobile bets the farm on Hadoop

  Barcelona-based mobile advertising network Billy Mobile has opted to bet its business on the Hadoop stack with Hortonworks

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project

  Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Three tips to help reduce Oracle licensing costs

  London councils are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds a year with Oracle. Controlling these costs is the first step in taming Oracle licensing

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Departing DVLA technology chief says 'job done', moves back to centre

  DVLA's former chief technology officer returns to Cabinet Office after executing 'exemplar' GDS programme

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  Informatica launches big data management platform

  Informatica has launched a “big data management” suite that it says adds data quality, governance and security to its data integration offer

• November 06, 2015 06 Nov'15

  Inforum 2015 Europe: Infor targets majority cloud revenue

  Infor is aiming at half its licence revenue coming from cloud installations in 2016, according to president Stephan Scholl

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Torben Høeg Bonde, Vestas

  The CIO at Danish wind turbine company Vestas is playing a key role in turning the company into a software supplier

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Digital transformations will spur software quality measurement

  Ever more customer-touching systems will force organisations to ensure their underlying software is robust enough to prevent IT problems becoming public and causing brand damage