One of the more interesting is an application suite created entirely on Google App Engine, Android, and Cloud Services.
The best application suite is probably the one you already own.
But if you want a lean, mean, powerful development environment with a repository of all the features you'd expect in an integrated productivity application suite, I know of no equal to Applixware Office at any price.
The same sort of challenges of integration, identity management, disaster recovery that were addressed as ERP and the rest of the enterprise application suite emerged will now have to be addressed in the world of SaaS. The scope of this work is vastly underestimated, as is the maturity of the available solutions targeted at addressing these problems.
The Parrot Audio Suite application, already available for free on App StoreTM and Google Play, will enable users to manage the connection of the two speakers and their audio parameters, as well as taking advantage of the existing setting capabilities like the positioning of the speakers in a room, the volume, the equalizer...
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With these new platforms, application integration with SAP Business Suite must change character.
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Armed with ELF, the powerful application development tools that come with the suite, and some programming skills, you can make Applixware Office do just about anything imaginable.
Fourteen years later, and after investing hundreds of millions of dollars and enduring years of criticism from skeptics in the industry, Netsuite now finds itself as one of the handful of business application providers who are offering a full suite of mature and time-tested, cloud-based applications to the SMB market.
If they can get SAP, Oracle, and all the other business application vendors to play along and integrate their technologies into their suite, end users could be treated to powerful surprises.
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Oracle has been selling application suites for several years, but now it is adding the capability to tie its suite into applications from competitors like Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ), Siebel Systems (nasdaq: SEBL - news - people ) and PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ).
Continuuity is a cloud platform with a suite of developer tools that the company says enable any developer with standard skills to become a Big Data Application (BDA) developer.
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MLB.com offers fans the most complete baseball information and interactivity on the web, including up-to-date statistics, game previews and summaries, extensive historical information, online ticket sales, baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles, fantasy games, live full-game video streaming and in-progress and on-demand highlights, live and archived audio broadcasts of every game, Gameday pitch-by-pitch application, around-the-clock hosted and specialty video programming, complete blogging capabilities and the award-winning suite of At Bat mobile applications.
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