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...He took control of Sybase, the enterprise software group in 1997, when its shares were trading at record lows and most in the industry thought it would not survive....
...The former Sybase database software chief executive took over in mid-November after BlackBerry abandoned a $4.7bn buyout offer from Fairfax Financial and opted instead to accept a $1bn financing package...
...At its peak, Sandell Asset Management had $7.5bn of funds under management and triggered changes at a slew of companies, including Swedish carmaker Volvo, fast-food chain Wendy’s and software maker Sybase...
...SAP grabbed one of the few big players when it bought Sybase: otherwise, most of the software companies pushing mobile for enterprise customers are much smaller....
...Its “in-memory” HANA database analytics platform is the fastest growing software product in history, SAP brags, while the $7bn Sybase acquisition moves the German company into mobile software....
...In 2010 it bought Sybase, the mobile software specialist, for $5.8bn and has since spent a combined $7.7bn on SuccessFactors and Ariba to strengthen its cloud business....
...Device management software includes Afaria from Sybase, IronPort from Cisco and Good Technology....
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...(SAP acquired Sybase last year, manily because of Sybase’s position in the mobile market.) How have you dealt with the security concerns that surround mobility and consummerisation?...
...Jim Snabe, the co-chief executive of SAP, says the software company is looking for further, large acquisition opportunities, to build on its purchases of Business Objects and Sybase....
...This will about double SAP’s footprint in China, which includes 2,500 staff and five offices, excluding its Sybase unit....
...These connect to a range of BI platforms, including those from SAS, Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Sybase, to present data in visual formats on iPhones and iPads....
...SAP last year acquired Sybase, a database specialist, for $5.8bn in a move to offer more of its business software products on mobile devices....
...After the $5.8bn acquisition of Sybase last year, we took the Sybase Unwired Platform and have been working on it for nine months....
...The German group preferred to boast about Hana, its much-hyped in-memory technology, or the new mobility software from Sybase, which it acquired last year....
...Earnings were held back by €112m in costs related to the acquisition of US rival Sybase last year....
...Last year, it spent a similar sum on Sybase, which once rivalled Oracle in the database market....
...Mr Chow at Sybase says companies will increasingly realise they need help from outside, as more software migrates to mobile devices....
...personnel planning and accounting systems, is trying to broaden its customer base and expand into mobile devices with new products and May’s $5.8bn takeover of US database and mobile software specialist Sybase...
...SAP, always very conservative in its financing, has net debt after paying $5.8bn for Sybase in May. It usually waits until it is back in the black before splashing out again....
...This can be done by Sybase Afaria. SAP has been quick to embrace the iPad (and potentially other tablets) internally. Why is this?...
...Horace Chow, Asia vice-president at Sybase, says this is part of the evolution of enterprise mobility – the previous stage largely revolved around accessing e-mail on BlackBerries....
...In May, SAP acquired US database and mobile software specialist Sybase in a deal worth $5.8bn as part of efforts to offer its mainly desktop-focused products to a wider range of devices....
...Sybase is a long-established MDM vendor and its platform supports Android, Apple, RIM BlackBerry, HP Palm OS, Windows Mobile 6 phones and Nokia S60 phones....
...improved morale within the group, increased the speed and customer involvement in software development and broadened the group’s technological range with the $5.8bn takeover of mobile software specialist Sybase...
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