Salesforce Has a New Sales Pitch Facebook Aims To Be Ad Colossus HP and SAP Team on HANA Database Stand Turns iPad Into Cash Register MS Dynamics Saving Revlon Millions Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, built a technology company worth $27 billion on the back of a very simple slogan: "No Software." Now he wants to find more growth in another big idea. It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. Then came the IPO, and it flopped. The two tech leaders are working on a system that SAP says could fundamentally change the database market. HANA is SAP's technology that keeps data in-memory, for super fast processing. Mobile-payments start-up Square has designs on reinventing the cash register with the Square Stand, which transforms an iPad tablet into a digital point-of-sale system to replace cash registers. The cosmetics giant is reporting millions of dollars in savings thanks to consolidating its enterprise resource planning by using Microsoft Dynamics ERP. Revlon CIO David Giambruno recently shared his story. FULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORY
Dell's Dismal Quarter Shows PC Maker's Challenges Dell's financial decay worsened during its latest quarter as the company slashed its personal computer prices in response to the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets in the beleaguered industry.
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