SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration
AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIs
Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping Change is glacial, but the direction is clear
DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims
WARNING: Oracle's AI obsession could mean higher prices and worse support Advisers say fewer staff could mean slower answers and tougher renewals
Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dry
DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform
EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG: Reclaiming control of the enterprise data warehouse Proprietary warehouses delivered scale — but at the cost of control, predictable pricing, and real flexibility. Enterprises are doing the math.
SAP looking to pull more external data into its AI platform with Reltio acquisition Merger positioned to boost appeal of ERP giant's Business Data Cloud
Microsoft Fabric Database Hub only a 'partial' solution for admins Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS
SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls €2B behind target
Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in
SAP's grand cloud escape plan €2B short of the runway Strategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind target
Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor says
West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from £2.6M to £41M
Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract
Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales
MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source
UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers
UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding It promised £1.15B… but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says
Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low' Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement
SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA
Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption
Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation
Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset
UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates
Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds As 2027 ECC support cliff looms, half choose not to re-engineer processes in critical ERP upgrade
Oracle's first general on-prem release of its .ai database iteration draws skeptics Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in
SAP refuses to budge on renewal discounts despite cloud growth slowdown Drop in customers' cloud conversion rate causes share price to plunge 22% – steepest decline since 2020
Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it
In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened 60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it
Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold
Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate Deprecation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system
As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control
SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC
ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake 7 out of 10 C-suite cats reckon software category's best days are behind it, but can't agree what's next
Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts
No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house
Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030 Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle
MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival system
Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions
Employee trust in SAP board dips amid ongoing restructure German mega vendor responds to latest in-house survey
Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population
Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says
SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain
Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix
Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage
ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan 'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO
Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI
‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’ One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change
The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026
SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings
Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts
SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade
Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads
Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing
Clearview AI sees red as UK tribunal sides with regulator over $10M GDPR fine Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies
Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid
Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching
