SAP’s big Qualtrics buy: It’s all about your customers
SAP’s $8 billion acquisition of Qualtrics may help put customer experience on the CIO’s agenda.
Stories by Peter Sayer
Tableau talks up natural language interface for creating visualisations
BI vendor seeks to simplify and automate data analysis as part of a growing trend toward injecting AI capabilities into BI tools.
SAP on Azure vies with Salesforce on AWS to break data out of silos
Six of the biggest companies in IT are setting out to eliminate the silos in which enterprises store customer data. The bad news?
Indirect access: SAP offers a new way to pay
SAP invites customers to pay for software per record created when accessed indirectly through third-party apps and services, and not per named user.
Don’t rush to deploy 5G if you want IoT security, agency warns
Flaws in 2G, 3G and 4G networks could be repeated in 5G, says EU IT security agency
SAP will shut down SAP Anywhere service for SMBs
Two years after its launch, the service had attracted around 30 active customers
EU plans special tax on digital services revenue
The European Union plans to make cross-border digital service providers pay tax in the countries where they do business, a move that will affect not just Google and Facebook but European companies too.
SAP settles licensing dispute with AB InBev
SAP wanted US$600 million in damages, both companies are keeping quiet about whether AB InBev paid.
IBM wants to open up the deep learning expertise bottleneck
With a new offering, Deep Learning-as-a-Service, IBM aims to help businesses automate key business processes, even if they lack expertise.
Latvian mobile operator invites cyber attackers to have a go
Security researchers wanting to test the kind of malware that could break public networks now have a place to do so in safety
SAP turns to prepay and iOS to mobilize SAP Cloud Platform usage
SAP is looking to tried-and-tested methods from the mobile world to boost usage of its platform-as-a-service offering.
Share your earbuds to hold a conversation in a foreign language
Waverly Labs has added a new conversation mode to the software driving its Pilot earbuds
Nokia expands home networking reach with mesh Wi-Fi product
Nokia wants to help carriers upgrade their mobile networks to 5G -- but it also wants to give home Wi-Fi a boost
Mobile apps: You use, you lose, warn campaign groups
The Center for Humane Technology and Common Sense want to warn kids about mobile apps they say are addictive
Facebook must face privacy lawsuit in Austria, EU court rules
Facebook must defend its privacy policy against a consumer lawsuit in an Austrian court, the European Union’s highest court has ruled. Its judgement has consequences for all businesses handling the personal information of consumers in the EU.
