SAP becomes one of the most successful enterprise cloud companies (Part 3 of 4) (Continued from Part 2) HANA is SAP’s bedrock SAP (SAP) HANA, or High-Performance Analytic Appliance, is an in-memory ...

In an enterprise technology world featuring too much hot air and not enough world-class technology, SAP has done an excellent job spreading the idea that its 5-year-old HANA database delivers ...

Oracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP’s HANA platform.

SAP spokesman James Dever downplayed Ellison’s remarks, saying in an email that HANA has seen a faster relative growth rate than Exadata, and that it offers customers a broader range of capabilities.

In the never-ending battle of royales trying all the time to gain supremacy in enterprise applications, the latest dig from Oracle co-president Mark Hurd saying in an interview that if HANA is the ...

At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, the annual event that kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, California, CEO Larry Ellison revealed details on the long-awaited in-memory offering, an update that received ...

BOSTON — SAP’s technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP’s HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of “falsehoods.” The ...

When Tom Cruise's character in Top Gun exclaimed "I feel the need, the need for speed", you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a soundbite from a CIO discussing their transactional databases. Whether ...

Jefferies analyst Ross MacMillan late Sunday cut his rating on Oracle to Hold from Buy, with a new price target of $32, from $35. Among other things, he thinks the company is feeling the pinch on its ...

SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, ...