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• SAP things are happening at Coles

  ​Coles Group has tapped SAP to transform its operations across procurement, human resources and other business processes.

• ​CIO profile: Berys Amor

  Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s IT chief leads a team building customised technology solutions that improve how the firm's clients do business.

• 9 Ways to Improve Employee and Customer Communication

  In today's fast-paced world, where it seems almost everyone suffers from some degree of ADD, it is harder than ever for companies to get people's attention. This applies not just to consumers (prospective or existing customers) but to employees as well. So what can you do to improve your internal (employee) and external (customer) communications, so that people will pay attention to, read and respond to your messages? Dozens of marketing and communication experts share their nine top strategies for improving business communication.

• Workday plots wave of predictive analytic apps

  Workday is expanding its move into analytics with a series of specialized, predictive applications designed to help staff in HR and financial management roles retain top workers and make more accurate forecasts.

• Large SAP customers are eager to enter the Cloud, survey finds

  Some of SAP's largest customers plan to nearly double what they now spend on Cloud deployments in the next year - good news for a company that is trying to position itself as a key player in that market according to research commissioned by IT services provider, HCL.

• Workday rolls out Big Data Analytics module

  Workday has unveiled a new software module for its cloud-based HCM (human capital management) application that allows customers to analyze data from both Workday and third-party sources.

• SAP executives discuss co-CEO Snabe's departure, return to single CEO structure

  SAP's pending return to a single CEO structure is the right move at the right time, according to co-founder and Chairman Hasso Plattner and co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe, who is planning to leave his post next May and join the company's Supervisory Board.

• SAP shakes up development organization

  SAP has abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit.

• SAP partner program expands to account for cloud applications

  SAP's burgeoning portfolio of cloud-based applications has prompted it to make some changes to its PartnerEdge channel program.

• SAP goes after Salesforce.com with new social software products, strategy

  SAP on Wednesday made a series of announcements meant to define itself as a major player in the enterprise social software market with a superior approach to rivals such as Salesforce.com.

• SAP reveals policies, pricing for cloud integrations

  SAP has laid out a set of pricing and policies for tying together its array of cloud-based and on-premises applications, providing some options at no charge, but others that will cost customers additional money.

• RightNow shareholders approve US$1.5 billion sale to Oracle

  Oracle's US$1.5 billion purchase of cloud software vendor RightNow Technologies took another step forward on Thursday as a vast majority of RightNow shareholders approved the deal.

• Deal Means More SAP Cloud Changes

  If its $3.4 billion bid to buy SuccessFactors is successful, SAP could finally stabilize its cloud computing strategy -- which has so far been mostly ineffectual.

• Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software

  Salesforce.com announced Thursday it will acquire cloud-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software market.

• SuccessFactors acquiring Jobs2web days after SAP deal

  Cloud-based human resources software vendor SuccessFactors said Tuesday it is acquiring Jobs2web for US$110 million, just days after <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3322680/update-2-sap-buys-successfactors-for-34-bn-to-boost-cloud-offering/">SAP announced</a> it would buy SuccessFactors in a $3.4 billion deal.