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Celonis sues SAP for anti-competitive data access practices

CIO Business Intelligence

When SAP acquired German process mining provider Signavio in 2021, SAP said it aimed to pair Signavios integrated, cloud-native process suite with SAPs Business Process Intelligence to help SAP customers adapt their business processes end-to-end. SAP, in turn, argued that only users licensed as named users were allowed to access SAP software.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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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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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, Gartner projects.

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VMware by Broadcom: Product, service and support news

Network World

So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, and shifts to the partner program. are aimed at helping customers more easily manage edge devices, applications, and infrastructure across multiple locations. But on top of that, VMware lost its No.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She started out as senior director of engineering and climbed the ranks to excel at numerous positions, including senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Cloud, Compute, and IoT business, chief strategy officer, and general manager of applications. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher.

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IBM adopts ‘Rise with SAP’ for internal ERP cloud move

CIO Business Intelligence

Rise with SAP is an all-in-one subscription offering from SAP , under which the software vendor takes on the hassles of software license management and coordinates the activities of cloud providers and systems integrators chosen by its clients. Work on it began in late 2021, a few months before Breakthrough was announced.

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