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Enterprise application software includes the latest news about IT compliance, business intelligence, office productivity suites, enterprise resource planning (ERP), call centers, and Software-as-a-Service (SAAS). You can also find information about CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Sales Force Automation (SFA), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), BPM (Business Process Management), databases and database analysis tools. Enterprise Applications is also the place to find news about emerging Enterprise 2.0 products such as enterprise Web applications and wikis.
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Apple announced the release of Aperture 3, the latest version of its photograph-editing software, on Feb. 9. The competitor to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is aimed at both professional photographers with massive image libraries and iPhoto users who want to use the platform’s hundreds of tools. For those looking to create more multimedia-intensive slideshows for corporate presentations and other events, Aperture 3 allows for the integration of video, music and other elements into a photo-montage.
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Microsoft has delivered the release candidate version of the company's Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 application development suite.
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Microsoft claims its engineers have been exploring complaints of poor battery life for some laptops running Windows 7, and that in every case the operating system is not at fault. Instead, Windows 7 had correctly evaluated via a new feature that those users’ batteries were failing, Microsoft said in a Feb. 8 blog posting. However, posts on Microsoft Watch, TechNet and other discussion forums seem to suggest that at least a percentage of users experiencing these issues also had batteries that were either new or nearly new, which in turn is raising further questions.
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SAP's new management team will have the task of getting the company growing again and restoring a sense of trust in the enterprise applications maker among SAP employees, partners and customers, according to Hasso Plattner, chairman of the company's Supervisory Board.
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Hewlett-Packard introduces Total Records Information Management 7, which enables an enterprise to manage all of its Microsoft SharePoint Server records within a single environment regardless of the source of each document.
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IBM launches a set of Power7 systems that it says deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice the performance of the previous generation of Power systems and some of the current crop of competing systems.
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Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader experienced months of delays due to supposed demand, a situation that may be changing with the bookseller’s announcement that the Nook will be available in most stores starting midweek. The Nook is also listed as "in stock" online. Competition in the e-reader arena has heated up as the Nook, Amazon.com's Kindle and soon the Apple iPad all compete for dominancy of the e-text market, with technological innovations and pricing seen as key factors in whether the manufacturers will seize a majority of market share.
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AppLocker is Microsoft’s take on application whitelisting, a process by which a user can only run applications or processes that are expressly permitted by policy.
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Facebook turned 6 years old Feb. 4. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly told the world that the leading social network now has more than 400 million users. To celebrate the birthday, Facebook also began rolling out changes to the homepage. Though currently visible to only 80 million of the site's users worldwide, the changes are significant signs that the company is looking to improve the site's search and overall usability. See some of the changes, which will be rolling out to all users over the coming weeks, in this eWEEK slideshow.
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The Apple iPad is less coveted by consumers, now that they know what it is, says retailer Retrevo, which polled visitors to its site before and after the iPad’s introduction. While in early January, 26 percent said they weren’t interested, in early February, 52 percent said the same.
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Microsoft's smartphone-related rollout at Mobile World Congress on Feb. 15 could be a mobile operating system with a flashy Zune-like interface and lack of Flash support, according to online rumors. PPC Geeks is reporting through unnamed sources that Microsoft's offering will include no multitask support and that Windows Mobile Device Center will no longer be used. Microsoft has kept the subject of its announcement under wraps, but executives have nonetheless suggested that it will be a major update to the company's struggling mobile operating system franchise, currently facing intense competitive pressure from the likes of Apple's iPhone and Google Android.
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SAP CEO Leo Apotheker resigned on Feb. 7 after he and the SAP supervisory board "reached a mutual agreement" not to extend Apotheker’s contract as a member of the SAP executive board. SAP named Bill McDermott, head of SAP’s field organization, and Jim Hagermann Snabe, head of product development, as co-CEOs replacing Apotheker as sole CEO.
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Microsoft experienced a cloud-centric week with Windows Azure, which is now generally available in 21 countries and no longer available for free. Microsoft hopes that the cloud-based platform and its application-building tools for developers will allow it to gain market share in the cloud computing arena, where it faces strong competition from the likes of Google and Amazon. In addition to Azure, Microsoft received some good news on the Windows 7 front, with a new report from Net Applications showing a rising rate of adoption for the new operating system. However, Microsoft continues to face some difficulties in mobile, with the rumor mill suggesting that the company may try to introduce a branded smartphone later this month.
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Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said the search engine company will release a version of Google Voice for businesses, roll out Google Wave to all users who want it, and may deliver as many as 200 new features to Google Apps this year. Google Voice offered as part of Google Apps could be a powerful combination for businesses in the market for a UCC (unified communications and collaboration) suite, particularly at a time when companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for UCC from Microsoft or IBM. Google will also release Google Wave, the company's real-time collaboration platform, for all consumers and businesses in 2010.
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The CodePlex Foundation announces the appointment of Paula Hunter to the position of executive director of the open-source organization. And Canonical hires a new chief operating officer.
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Given enough ISV support, Wine needn’t be be a poor cross-platform solution for running Windows apps on Linux.
Firefox 3.6 may be just a point upgrade, but it does offer some welcome new capabilities and improvements over Version 3.5 that make it worthwhile. Most welcome are the new Personas feature and enhanced support for plug-in handling and for HTML5.
Jitterbit is a data integration suite that organizations can use to link up disparate applications and data sources that may not be capable of communicating with each other on their own. In eWEEK Labs' tests, Jitterbit 3.0 was easy to set up and use, and allows for a certain amount of self-service among data-savvy users.
Microsoft hasn’t made it easy to move from Windows XP to Windows 7. LapLink's PCmover line of personality transplant tools moves applications and their configuration settings to a new operating system without requiring reinstallation or reconfiguration. eWEEK Labs put the consumer edition (PCmover Professional) and the business-focused edition (PCmover Enterprise) to the test.
Office SharePoint is one of Microsoft's biggest success stories in the corporate world. SharePoint 2007 is still a solid performer for a variety of tasks, but it has been showing its age. eWEEK Labs' tests of the SharePoint 2010 beta show that Microsoft has done a good job of bringing the server squarely in step with the times, providing business-oriented social networking features and a new interface as well as beefed-up capabilities for the kinds of tasks for which businesses have been counting on SharePoint.
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