SAP's US$3.4 billion purchase of SuccessFactors not only gives the company an increasingly popular set of on-demand human resources applications, but could also bring its entire cloud software ...

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott (Image via Wikipedia) Within its 176,000 customers around the globe, SAP has the far-flung potential to touch each of the 500 million people who work for those companies.

SAP said Saturday that it will buy SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion, or $40 a share in cash. The move---combined with Oracle's acquisition of RightNow---highlights how legacy enterprise software ...

SAP SuccessFactors has detailed how it puts the human factor into HR software. Human Rresources (HR) software is for humans to use to serve human interests in human environments, so does that make ...

German software vendor shells out US$3.5 billion to acquire cloud-based human resources software maker SuccessFactors, but analysts say deal a tacit acknowledgement SAP's cloud strategy had failed ...

Adam Kovalevsky, SAP SuccessFactors. This year will see the SAP HANA database face its biggest test yet, as the entire SuccessFactors customer base moves onto the platform in a series of migrations ...

SAP SuccessFactors is of course SAP’s Human Resources (HR) division (now often also referred to as Human Capital Management (HCM)), which came out of a 2012 acquisition of the company of the ...

SAP SuccessFactors president Greg Tomb noted that 101 of the events’s 140 sessions are hosted by customers. So (one hopes) this is not so much SAP pushing its own agenda, but actual use cases of ...

SAP executives provided new details about the company’s plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its software architecture during an event in Boston on ...

The Post Office was forced to move to SuccessFactors this year after support for its 19-year-old SAP HR 4.7 system was stopped Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

But this long-running story has a cliffhanger ending, with a sequel already lined up. For its next move, SAP SuccessFactors is heading to the world's four largest hyperscale cloud platforms. We've ...