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• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, May 18

  Security researcher took over airplane systems via inflight tech

• SAP journeys to simplicity, but customers still live in a complex world

  Nothing has earned a reputation for head-banging complexity among IT professionals more than ERP, but as enterprise-resource planning leader SAP tries to recast its image with the slogan "Run simple," there's no guarantee that customers will buy it.

• Nuage visualizes the SDN

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2846421/sdn/alcatel-lucent-virtualizes-wans-and-routers.html">Nuage Networks</a> this week released an application designed to better integrate physical and virtual networks.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, May 7

  SAP's S/4Hana moves to the cloud...AMD puts Zen up against Intel's Skylake...Europe probes e-commerce firms...and more tech news.

• SAP sets its sights on the IoT with new Cloud services

  Targeting the 25 billion or so devices expected to be connected to the Internet by 2020, SAP has announced a new suite of Cloud services designed specifically for the so-called Internet of Things.

• SAP brings its S/4Hana data platform to the cloud

  Building on the launch of the fourth generation of its enterprise software suite earlier this year, SAP on Wednesday unveiled the cloud version of S/4Hana.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, May 6

  Apple Beats deals may be target of probe ... French go all-in on Internet spying ... Intel's new chips are tuned for machine learning ... and more tech news.

• Want to buy SAP software? There's an app (store) for that

  It's simple for consumers to get apps whenever the mood strikes them, but in enterprises it's typically a different story. Borrowing a page from successful consumer app stores, SAP has launched SAP Store, hoping to make software purchases just as easy on the business side.

• SAP CEO touts tighter Google ties

  SAP is deepening its partnership with Google and will collaborate with the search giant on new projects focused on business analytics and enterprise applications.

• IBM's new Power Systems servers are custom-made for SAP Hana

  SAP and IBM share a long history dating back to the very roots of SAP, and on Monday that allegiance got a little closer with two new IBM Power Systems server configurations tailored specifically for SAP's Hana in-memory data platform.

• Can gamification solve enterprises' engagement problem?

  If 90 percent of the world's workforce were suddenly struck with a debilitating illness that rendered them unable to perform to their fullest potential, it would be declared a global crisis.

• SAP patches login flaw in ASE database

  SAP patched a flaw on Thursday that could allow an attacker to take complete control over a database, according to security vendor Trustwave.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, April 21

  IBM sales slide again...Mobilegeddon is here...SAP gains on weak euro...and more tech news.

• Jemena shifts CRM to the cloud

  Energy infrastructure provider, Jemena, has moved its customer data into the cloud to support restructured process lines across its electricity, water and gas assets and improve customer service.
  

• SAP co-founder Tschira dies at 74

  Klaus Tschira, an SAP co-founder who helped pioneer the development of modern ERP (enterprise resource planning) software and turn the Germany-based company into a global software powerhouse, died Tuesday in Heidelberg at 74.