Leading Software Providers to Co-Innovate to Mobilize SAP® Business Suite 7 for Millions of Mobile Device Users Worldwide

SAP and Sybase today announced that SAP’s subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Sybase, Inc., in a transaction that will bring the two information technology (IT) leaders together to enable companies to become better-run “unwired enterprises.” As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to better harness today’s explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers wherever they work so they can make faster, more informed decisions. Companies will benefit from greater productivity, speed and agility to help their businesses grow. Under the terms and conditions of the merger agreement, SAP America, Inc., will make an all cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Sybase common stock at $65.00 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $5.8 billion.

The per share purchase price represents a 44% premium over the three-month average stock price of Sybase. The transaction will be funded from SAP’s cash on hand and a €2.75 billion loan facility arranged and underwritten by Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank..

New EMC SourceOne for Microsoft SharePoint Provides Control, Reduces Costs and Ensures Compliance
 

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BOSTON, EMC World – May 12, 2010 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the new EMC® SourceOne™ for Microsoft SharePoint which enables organizations to adopt a proactive information governance strategy for content spread across multiple SharePoint sites and farms. SourceOne for SharePoint delivers operational control, compliance and e-discovery capabilities without impacting SharePoint end-users. As a result, IT departments can reduce costs, improve system scalability and performance and ensure compliance.

SourceOne for SharePoint is the newest addition to EMC SourceOne, a family of modular, integrated products for archiving, compliance and e-discovery that makes information governance actionable. Support for SharePoint 2010 in addition to earlier versions will be immediately available when SourceOne for SharePoint is released at the end of June 2010.

With SourceOne for SharePoint, EMC is delivering a building block approach to help customers address their operational challenges. This includes reducing the costs of managing content in both active and inactive SharePoint sites. As their needs mature, customers can be confident that the right content is managed, retained and disposed off according to internal policies and external regulations.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

The EMC SourceOne portfolio of information governance solutions also helps customers simplify e-discovery across multiple content types including those contained in SharePoint. EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon allows early case assessment and automates the identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis and review of content located in a variety of managed and unmanaged sites including SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, desktops, laptops, common Internet file systems (CIFS) and network file systems (NFS), networked attached storage and other content management repositories.

Addressing petabyte-level analytical data and storage to enhance online customer experiences

Three major Nigerian banks have turned to IBM to provide the technology to support the transformation of their operations as part the reform of the country's banking sector. By using business analytics and service management software from IBM, the banks are benefiting from some of the most sophisticated software tools available to increase the visibility of information and improve the manageability and efficiency of their organizations.

Positions IBM to Lead Industry in Cloud Integration

Armonk, NY, 3 May, 2010 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Cast Iron Systems to broaden the delivery of cloud computing services for clients. Cast Iron Systems, a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA, delivers industry-leading cloud integration software, appliances and services. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition expands IBM’s industry-leading business process and integration software portfolio, which grew more than 20 percent in the first quarter of 2010.

Achieves 25 Percent License Revenue Growth

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 04, 2010 — Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

McLean, Va., April 2, 2010 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that MicroStrategy offers interactive reporting and analysis directly on the Apple® iPad™.

With MicroStrategy, iPad users can seamlessly access MicroStrategy-based reports, business charts, and information dashboards at their convenience.

MicroStrategy software enables companies to report, analyze, and monitor the data stored across their enterprises to reveal trends and insights to make better business decisions. MicroStrategy’s reporting platform is designed for business user productivity, with an intuitive, user-friendly Web interface.
With actionable information from MicroStrategy-based reports and dashboards, organizations can better serve customers, improve operational efficiencies, identify new sales opportunities, and make analytically-based decisions.

With MicroStrategy and iPad, mobile BI users can access important information where and when they need it.

 Pentaho is excited to announce the release of Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) 4.0, the next product milestone in the company’s Agile BI initiative. PDI 4.0 is the world’s first fully unified ETL, modeling and data visualization integrated development environment for BI applications. With Pentaho’s Agile BI initiative, your firm will be able to build and deploy BI applications in minutes to hours, rather than from weeks to months, at a fraction of the cost.