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A $53.4m venture capital funding boost for Lithium Technologies will allow the social media marketing company to take on rivals Salesforce.com and Jive Software the company has said.

Salesforce.com's takeover of Rypple seems like a diversion into HCM, but it's all about gamification and extending the Social Enterprise vision.

Salesforce.com’s social business play has taken another turn with an incursion into the heartland of arch-enemy SAP, which it claims is limiting users ability to access useful data.

The good news: the majority of SAP customers recognise the potential of Cloud Computing. The bad news: they’re not too sure how SAP is going to help them realise that potential.

Just a week after Oracle’s $1.3bn (£820m) copyright infringement verdict against SAP was thrown out, the four year case has taken another turn.

A federal judge has rejected a jury award of $1.3 billion to Oracle in a copyright infringement lawsuit against SAP, paving the way for a possible new trial.

A new microsite from SAP is promising a one-stop for information and sources of material to help companies boost their customer experience across sales, service and marketing lines of business.

SAP has released the first of what it is pitching as a "new class of people-centric, on-demand solutions that combine the advantages of social, mobile and Cloud applications".

SAP's Sapphire user conference saw the company push a bullish message regarding its Business ByDesign Cloud ERP offering.

SAP has unveiled version 2.0 of its Sybase Unwired mobile enterprise application platform while announcing final details on its integration with its application suite.