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Oracle has been a major player in the traditional on-premise enterprise software market, but with the rise of cloud computing, most major enterprise software makers have been launching cloud based versions of their offerings.
For traditional software systems, like enterprise software, this is not an easy shift and there exists an entire generation of software companies who will either not survive or come out as much smaller and less interesting companies as a result.
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McAfee acquired two companies last year, TrustDigital and WaveSecure, which develop smartphone security software for enterprise customers.
It purchased another company, Day Software Holding, to boost its enterprise software solutions portfolio 10 months later.
Compared with those three goliaths, which provide database software to 86% of the enterprise software market, according to Forrester Research, MySQL offers a simpler and cheaper solution.
As an interesting new book by Alan W. Brown, Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain (Addison Wesley, 2012), points out the consequent shift from software development to software delivery, combining constant innovation and control at the enterprise level.
That doesn't include sales of its Office desktop software, which are lumped into the Business Division along with enterprise software, and swing with Windows.
Oracle is one of the largest enterprise software makers which competes with SAP, Microsoft in the enterprise market and CRM in the CRM market.
The software giant has tried for years to develop - and buy - its way into the enterprise software market.
Thanks to confidence in business enterprise software that is grown by the 2010 performances of companies like Oracle and Dell, which reported a rise in commercial enterprise revenues last quarter, the tech sector is leading markets to the year-end.
Maybe tech behemoths like IBM and Microsoft will add SMMPs to their comprehensive enterprise software offerings.
But once the enterprise software is in the door it is almost impossible to extricate.
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So, enterprise software companies tend to look and act in the way their big clients want.
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If you follow this column, you know how the biggest company in enterprise software, Oracle Corp.
This holds true across all enterprise software, but is especially important in CRM integration.
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Change is very difficult, time-consuming and often the most expensive area of any enterprise software project.
There has been a visible shift to the cloud by most enterprise software players.
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There was nothing in the way of enterprise software or year 2000 plans in place.
Symantec has an added advantage of a line of security software focused on enterprise solutions.
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There is a sleepy old enterprise software market for HR systems which is on fire.
Matt Pauker is a co-founder of Voltage Security, a provider of enterprise software and encryption services.
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The enterprise software company's stock slid as results weakened after Oracle 's June 2003 hostile takeover bid.
From semiconductors to life sciences, enterprise software to the web, each industry has created a supply of jobs.
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He is a very technical executive who has spent much of his career to date in enterprise software.
Dhillon and his team want to do to enterprise software what Apple did to the mobile phone industry.
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The following graphic compares 2011 actual sales and the latest forecast for 2016 by enterprise software product category.
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