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• Rimini Street expands support to IBM and Microsoft databases

  Rimini Street, which provides enterprise support for Oracle and SAP products, is extending its services to include IBM and Microsoft databases.

• Many SAP customers struggling to figure out its mobility strategy, user survey finds

  It's been nearly four years since SAP got into enterprise mobility with the acquisition of Sybase, but many customers still don't quite understand its mobile product strategy, according to a new survey by the Americas' SAP Users' Group.

• BlackBerry CEO Chen on his plan to win back enterprise customers

  Recently-installed BlackBerry CEO John Chen is on a mission to restore the ailing company to financial health, largely by restoring faith in BlackBerry among corporate CIO's and other traditional enterprise customers.

• BlackBerry has high hopes for 2014

  After a nearly disastrous year and facing an expected negative earnings report Friday, BlackBerry hopes to start 2014 on a more positive note with its news interim CEO and a commitment to help developers more easily port Android apps to the BlackBerry World app store.

• BlackBerry now seeks lenders not buyers ... and new CEO

  Foundering BlackBerry has given up for now on finding a buyer. Instead the smartphone company is seeking an infusion of cash from some investors, and shaking up its board and executive leadership.

• BlackBerry gives up on selling itself as CEO resigns

  BlackBerry announced Monday that it won't be sold to Fairfax Financial Holdings or any other suitors, and that its CEO Thorsten Heins will resign.

• SAP bets on HTML5, open source for its mobile app platform

  SAP is planning to rely heavily on HTML5 and open standards within its products for building mobile applications, and is embracing the concept of BYOT (bring your own tools) in order to draw interest from developers.

• SAP ports its Business Suite software to the HANA in-memory database

  SAP's flagship Business Suite ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is now able to run on top of the vendor's HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

• Sybase chief John Chen leaving SAP

  Sybase CEO John Chen is leaving SAP, roughly two-and-a-half years after SAP acquired the company for its database and mobility technologies, SAP announced Tuesday.

• SAP pumps up its in-memory, mobile and cloud strategies

  SAP is expected to make a slew of announcements related to in-memory computing, mobile applications and cloud-based services on Wednesday during the Sapphire conference in Madrid.

• Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

  Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.

• Sybase IQ 15.4 features 'Big Data' theme, support for Hadoop, MapReduce

  Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop programming frameworks for large-scale data processing.

• Catching up with mobile security threats

  Development of enterprise mobile apps has been moving more slowly than development of consumer-facing apps, according to Gartner. One main reason is IT leaders' concerns about the security of mobile devices, which are often employees' personal devices, and are vulnerable to being lost, hacked or stolen. While there are plenty of established tools and practices for keeping Web visitors from straying (or hacking) into sensitive corporate data, managing security across a diverse set of mobile devices remains a challenge, IT experts say.

• SAP adds security, management for app stores

  SAP customers looking to open iTunes-like enterprise app stores through Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP) will soon have the ability to manage and deploy the software securely thanks to new VPP support in the Sybase Afaria platform, SAP said Tuesday at the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas.

• SAP hopes partners will rev up mobile apps sales

  Thousands of SAP partners who sell the Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite and Business Objects analytics software can now also offer customers Sybase mobile technology and applications, SAP announced this week.