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Who does SAP view as it's primary competitors in the cloud? Software vendors are not always willing to be clear on this topic, but an internal memo from the company's cloud boss, Lars Dalgaard, tells the story: # 1 - HCM + Finance with Workday as no.

SAP is to buy collaborative commerce software and cloud-service provider Ariba in a deal valuing the company at $4.3bn . The deal is part of SAP's belated attempt to expand its presence in the cloud after a decade in which cloud specialists, such as Salesforce.com, Workday and NetSuite, have established themselves as rivals in enterprise software.

Ariba's platform focuses on business-to-business commerce transactions. It makes a natural fit with SAP's "broad customer base and deep business process expertise," SAP said in a statement.

IDG News Service - CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Has Facebook reinvigorated the IPO market? Here are a few tech companies racing to go public--and what you should know about them.

With an expected valuation of close to $100 billion, it's understandable that no one can stop talking about Facebook's initial public offering this week.

Workday, which provides software for human resources and financial planning, has selected bankers for an IPO filing in July, with the offering tentatively scheduled for October or December.

WASHINGTON: Nine Indian origin entrepreneurs feature in this year's Forbes Midas List of technology's best investors for fuelling a bull market for hot young companies.

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