Software makers get all wrapped up in sexy new features and functions and hundreds of ways of doing the exact same thing that they seem to forget the most fundamental use of their products: most business software applications are systems built around databases.
Oracle mainly competes with IBM, Hewlett-Packard in the hardware business, IBM and Microsoft in database and middleware software business and SAP in the applications software business.
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The company is vying for market dominance with SAP the leading seller of business applications software that helps companies manage their operations (See "Smiling Oracle").
But instead of holding a monopoly over his design and licensing it to phone makers, Rossman now faces dozens of rivals as he builds a new business selling server software and applications under the WAP standard.
Even as the software-applications business consolidates around a small handful of major players, IBM appears committed to its decision to keep out.
One is Java, a programming language that is the underlying technology both for many business applications and for software that runs on mobile phones.
He said 2ndWave will initially shoot for Minnesota-based companies, but would consider companies in other parts of the U.S. Potential targets are established software companies providing business applications with strong revenue and a large customer base, but Heim has no specific targets in mind.
The applications software market consists of various applications like Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence to name a few.
Do Assistant seeks to take speech software even further by offering a suite of common business applications that run entirely by voice command.
The company makes hardware and software to optimize delivery of network-based applications for business customers.
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The number of Software-as-a-Service applications available today for managing business functions like finance, HR and more can help startups better handle rapid growth.
Since the dawn of the modern era of business software, companies have spent huge amounts of time and money entering data into applications like ERP, CRM, SCM, HR, PLM and then struggling to get it out.
While Google can launch online spreadsheet and word processing applications, Microsoft can't respond without damaging its powerful Office software business.
For commoditized applications that require very little care and maintenance, and offer little business value beyond their basic functionality, the cheapest way to consume these applications is as a Software as a Service (SaaS), which of course can run in the cloud.
Zeck is chief technologist at Antenna Software, which runs a platform that businesses like Coca-Cola and Xerox use to create mobile business applications.
Where software is concerned, Oracle is all in, whether the code in question involves databases, servers, business applications, networking or communications.
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