SAP users struggling with data management for S/4HANA migration
UK and Ireland survey reveals difficulties with housekeeping
Databases30 Mar 2022 | 8
Databases
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
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