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

CIO Business Intelligence

Functions contained in the so-called Digital Core, SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management, are licensed per user. In contrast, the functionalities contained in the SAP S/4HANA Line-of-Business Solutions or the Suite LoB Solutions must be licensed separately. SAP has already developed best-practice solutions for various industries.

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Guidelines not policies: The University of Texas at San Antonio’s approach to gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

We immediately looked at tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot because we already had a Microsoft 365 license,” says Ketchum. “We We were happy to pay a little more for the licensing to use a tool we already knew how to support from an operational perspective, making it possible for faculty to test the waters rolling out small AI initiatives.

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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Network World

The Court found that these parties had conspired to breach Winsopias license agreement in a deliberate, systematic and intentionally hidden effort to unlawfully reverse engineer critical IBM mainframe technology. IBM licensed its mainframe software to Winsopia beginning in 2013, according to the court documents.

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Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Network World

These, along with issues such as software licensing, could disincentivise customers from using rival cloud providers, thereby stifling innovation and inhibiting competition in the cloud service market. Software licensing practices were not widely viewed, in isolation, as influencing the choice of public cloud provider.

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China seeks 30% growth in national compute capacity by 2025

Network World

The US — which began to impose restrictions on semiconductor exports to China in 2015, extending them in 2021 and twice in 2022 — had said that it would soon impose additional license requirements on exports to more than 40 additional countries that present a heightened risk for export diversion to China.

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Why NTT followed its own advice to accelerate technology modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

So, we took the first step – applying our own expertise in software asset management to simplify a vast and complex licensing estate comprising thousands of multitechnology licensing agreements and associated hardware. We had to assess a huge range of license types and vendor agreements. million a year.

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Fusion R&D hub aims to break ground in Eastern Washington this summer

GeekWire

The building was previously licensed for tritium operations and the new effort’s plans include blanket and shielding test beds, hot cells for handling radioactive materials, and systems for extracting, purifying and recycling tritium. .” FusionWERX will take over an existing facility in the Tri-Cities town of Richland, Wash.,

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