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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. Functions contained in the so-called Digital Core, SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management, are licensed per user.

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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

That may change as telecommunications companies such as Airtel and MTN jump into the mobile money market, after recently receiving licenses to do so. It was only late last year that Nigeria’s Central Bank (CBN), gave the green light for telcos to acquire mobile money licenses. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Fountainhead: Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the.

Fountainhead

Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in. ► 2008. (79). ► 2008. (79). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Blog Archive.

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Appeal court overturns $1.6bn mainframe software ‘poaching’ ruling against IBM

CIO Business Intelligence

Under a 2008 agreement, IBM provides outsourcing services to BMC and its customers, including AT&T. The Master Licensing Agreement (MLA) and an Outsourcing Attachment that governed the business relationship between IBM and BMC were amended in 2013 and 2015. Court of Appeals for the 5 th Circuit concluded. billion judgement.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

wow microsoft should be paying more than $1 billion for licensing then. December 2008 (94). November 2008 (103). October 2008 (156). September 2008 (139). August 2008 (142). July 2008 (134). June 2008 (139). May 2008 (142). April 2008 (141). March 2008 (130). Ruchira Sahan.

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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO Business Intelligence

We are accomplishing this new engagement in two main ways: Standardizing the metric for our pricing across cloud providers to per-core licensing – the same metric used in our end-customer licensing – and providing license portability for VCF. The license portability feature we have added to VCF is key to this strategy.

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