SAP users struggling with data management for S/4HANA migration UK and Ireland survey reveals difficulties with housekeeping Databases30 Mar 2022 | 8
PlanetScale offers undo button to reverse schema migration without losing data Vitess-based database splits system for 30 minutes allowing users to right regrettable changes Databases24 Mar 2022 | 3
RISE with SAP struggles to gain purchase with German-speaking users Investment sentiment for S/4HANA drops off while public cloud hosting only two per cent of environments Databases24 Mar 2022 | 1
SAP wins competition to replace own ageing system at UK council £7m Gloucestershire County Council deal the first for RISE with SAP in the UK public sector Databases22 Mar 2022 | 7
Verified asset management tools help speed Oracle audits Too bad they don't help customers achieve a position on compliance Databases21 Mar 2022 | 1
Northwest England councils in £31m SaaS HR system tender Procurement comes as Manchester City Council looks for SAP next steps Databases18 Mar 2022 | 5
Openness of Oracle licensing and audit tools questioned Verified third-party tools do not guarantee compliance position Databases17 Mar 2022 | 34
IBM Cloudant pulls plan to fund new foundational layer for CouchDB Apache project mulls options for next big upgrade as Big Blue focuses on 3.x iterations Databases15 Mar 2022 |
MongoDB to terminate Russian SaaS accounts No service for NoSQL users contrasts with continuous clouds from other players Databases15 Mar 2022 | 11
Oracle sees automation opportunity in healthcare following pandemic Doctor Ellison says big wins in the sector influenced decision to buy health records outfit Cerner Databases11 Mar 2022 | 5
UK Home Office dangles £20m for national gun licence database system But potential bidders will have to move fast on this one Databases11 Mar 2022 | 99
DataStax updates K8ssandra to help Cassandra operate worldwide Shares multi-cluster lessons from DBaaS in Kubernetes project Databases08 Mar 2022 |
DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft Cloud migrations can therefore be cost-effective, even with Big Red’s nasty licenses Databases07 Mar 2022 | 33
Desperately seeking SaaS: English council to replace Oracle R12 Big Red product to become more unstable, unreliable, and less secure after 20 years' use Databases01 Mar 2022 | 9
Couchbase promises P2P sync in mobile and edge DB NoSQL slinger sees future in edge and IoT – and 'eventual consistency' Databases23 Feb 2022 | 5
Scottish universities launch £42m ERP tender Framework deal to cut across software, services and systems integration Databases23 Feb 2022 | 8
GraphQL data wrangler Hasura bags $100m investment 25,000 GitHub stars since its introduction in 2017 Databases22 Feb 2022 | 1
Skills shortage puts SAP projects on hold Business demand creates double whammy on recruitment pressure Databases21 Feb 2022 | 47
AWS and Elasticsearch settle trademark infringement lawsuit 'There is only one Elasticsearch, and it comes from Elastic' Databases17 Feb 2022 | 2
Expect sales reps' calls if IT wants to ditch Oracle Licensing and compliance issues advisor spills the beans Databases15 Feb 2022 | 23
English county council blasted for 'inept project management' in delayed SAP replacement Questions remain over whether Surrey's £3.2m budget increase will avoid further delay Databases10 Feb 2022 | 25
Teradata: Public cloud sales soar from low base, majority of business still on-prem Perpetual software and hardware licenses dive in Q4, consultancy withers on vine Databases08 Feb 2022 |
Western Australia Health taps SAP and Deloitte for AU$220m SaaS HR system over 10 years Now, don't do a Queensland Databases04 Feb 2022 | 9
Exasol pledges to help customers avoid cloud bill shock with new DBaaS Distributed in-memory system more efficient than other cloud data warehouses, vendor claims Databases03 Feb 2022 | 1
Workday gets £9.8m deal for second chunk of UK's Student Loans Company project Oracle replacement project continues as SLC opts for SaaS model Databases31 Jan 2022 | 15
Despite growth, questions remain over whether SAP can get customers off-prem fast enough to appease investors €500m cloud investments drag on profit Databases28 Jan 2022 | 12
Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool' 'Most of it – if not all of it – really amounts to fear, uncertainty and doubt' Databases25 Jan 2022 | 51
Team behind delayed ERP project was aware of problems but didn't inform Surrey County Council for months Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority Databases24 Jan 2022 | 25
And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good Let's not mention on-premise licences.... Databases15 Jan 2022 | 2
Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight Plans for new online shop get seal of approval despite Microsoft Dynamics delays Databases13 Jan 2022 | 62
Dev's PostgreSQL experiment probes possibility of zero-downtime schema migration It has potential, says one expert Databases12 Jan 2022 | 11
Another day, another ERP project behind schedule: This time it's Norfolk County Council and an Oracle system Cost of over-run was unknown, but won't be as bad as delays at other authorities, council document claims Databases11 Jan 2022 | 21
When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks Databases10 Jan 2022 | 17
All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021 Databases06 Jan 2022 | 5
Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reluctant to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database Cloud-native RDBMS is coming, on AWS and Azure. Yet IBM's only preaching to the choir Databases23 Dec 2021 | 56
Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs Updated Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid Databases17 Dec 2021 | 8
Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn 'Cloud-native' outfit munches up $278m in new funding Databases16 Dec 2021 | 3
Trouble getting REST APIs into GraphQL? Try our low-code approach, says Hasura REST-to-GraphQL data hub also on offer and looking for more contributions Databases15 Dec 2021 | 1
Oracle finance application customers more likely to leave for another vendor than SAP's – analyst Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour Databases14 Dec 2021 | 5
Ghost of Christmas past haunts Oracle despite impressive revenue growth Payment over Mark Hurd dispute hits figures as Ellison bigs up cloud ERP Databases10 Dec 2021 | 3
MongoDB logs 50% hike in Q4 sales, beats analysts forecasts for next quarter Yet losses grow at NoSQL database biz Databases07 Dec 2021 | 1
AWS DocumentDB not MongoDB-compatible, says MongoDB Inc Interview MongoDB CTO Mark Porter: 'It is 34 per cent compatible, through our tests' Databases06 Dec 2021 | 10
MySQL a 'pretty poor database' says departing Oracle engineer Updated PostgreSQL a better option for open source RDBMS, he claims Databases06 Dec 2021 | 156
The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day Opinion Put crypto back in the crypt Databases06 Dec 2021 | 170
UK and Ireland S/4HANA migrations accelerated during 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns, figures reveal User group survey shows concerns linger about support skills for upgrade Databases29 Nov 2021 | 2
RISE with AWS? Adidas migrates SAP S/4 HANA to the fluffy white stuff, snubs SAP's lift-and-shift programme Updated Globo sports brand also interested in AWS analytics systems, data lakes and ML tools as part of upgrade Databases22 Nov 2021 | 2
SAP's Embedded Steampunk little use to those on anything but the most recent system Updated Effort to bring the ABAP programming language to S/4HANA cloud ERP system attracts criticism Databases22 Nov 2021 | 3
Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees Databases17 Nov 2021 | 2
Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary Databases16 Nov 2021 | 106
MongoDB 5.1 for DBaaS arrives amid questions over on-prem release stability New features focused on times series and analytics fail to quell concerns over 5.0 bugs Databases11 Nov 2021 |
System at the heart of scaled-back £30m Sheffield University project runs on end-of-life Oracle database Extended support for 11.2.0.4.0 ended nearly a year ago Databases11 Nov 2021 | 56
Techies tell BCS: More and richer data required if COP26 climate pledges are to be met How can you get to net zero without knowing what's generating the nasties? Databases10 Nov 2021 | 37
Microsoft's Dynamics portfolio has become an all-you-can-eat SI buffet for consultancies Analysis Market for related services driving an M&A feeding frenzy Databases09 Nov 2021 | 6
RISE with SAP? Never heard of it, say 30% of UK users While 11% plan to take up the package, lack of use cases keep numbers low Databases04 Nov 2021 | 3
Sheffield University scales back student system after Oracle integration stumbles £30m project uncertain amid cuts to academic departments Databases03 Nov 2021 | 38
How about a big dollop of Azure with that database engine? Microsoft opens up SQL Server 2022 preview Ignite The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards Databases02 Nov 2021 | 2
Infosys awarded contract to replace East Sussex County Council's ageing ERP system Indian service provider tasked with getting authority from SAP R/3 to Oracle Fusion Databases02 Nov 2021 | 3
SQL Server on Linux: Canonical offers official support, AWS Babelfish helps users move to Postgres Amazon tech requires fork of PostgreSQL, is not fully compatible with SQL Server Databases02 Nov 2021 | 33
Yugabyte's latest funding round values the distributed SQL system at $1.3bn Double-decker database raises $188m from hungry VCs Databases29 Oct 2021 |
Oracle-owned ERP outfit NetSuite fitted with banking and data warehouse features to keep accountants sane It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst Databases19 Oct 2021 | 1