SAP has laid off employees based in the Pacific Northwest as part of what the tech giant describes as a “restructuring program” related to its product engineering organization that includes… Read More
SAP announced Sunday that it will spin out its Qualtrics unit with an IPO, less than two years after acquiring the experience management company for $8 billion. SAP plans to… Read More
SAP and Microsoft struck a three-year partnership to help companies move their data to the cloud, a move that tightens the already close relationship between the two tech giants. SAP… Read More
After months of discussions between the two companies, SAP announced Sunday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire user experience software vendor Qualtrics just before it was expected to make… Read More
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Technology isn’t just improving athletic performance or changing the way we watch sports. It’s also being used as a real-time analytics tool that is helping front… Read More
It’s become clear over the last several quarters that Amazon Web Services is signing longer-term cloud computing deals with big enterprise companies, and according to a report it just landed… Read More
Today’s featured stories Uber drivers are earning less, Airbnb hosts are making more, and other insights from a new study on the gig economy Microsoft teams up with Adobe and… Read More
Modern enterprise technology generates a ton of valuable data, but putting that data together can be quite tricky. Microsoft introduced a new industry partnership with Adobe and SAP Monday at… Read More
Salesforce upended the traditional market for customer-relationship management software led by Oracle and SAP more than a decade ago, and it hasn’t looked back. Now SAP thinks it’s time for… Read More
Winshuttle, a Bothell, Wash.-based startup that helps customers manage and automate their data in SAP environments, has been acquired by Symphony Technology Group, a Silicon Valley-based private equity firm. Founded… Read More
SAP added several new features to its cloud services on Tuesday, giving customers the option of running their workloads on all three of the big public cloud infrastructure providers and… Read More
Container technology company Docker has a new leader, Steve Singh, the Seattle-area entrepreneur who was named the San Francisco-based company’s new CEO this morning, replacing Ben Golub, who will remain with… Read More
Cloud computing is so 2016. Sure, migration from client servers to the cloud is an ongoing megatrend, but tech moves fast and SAP President Steve Singh is already looking to… Read More
Elena Donio, an 18-year veteran of Concur, and president of the company since December 2014, is leaving after accepting a senior executive position at another company, it was announced on… Read More
Microsoft has expanded its partnership with German enterprise-software giant SAP, agreeing to put SAP’s SuccessFactors software on the Azure cloud within five years. SuccessFactors is human capital management software, which integrates… Read More
SAP is bringing its business database solution to Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, the company announced today. SAP is pushing its own HANA databases as it moves away from running its business… Read More
—Joanna Lord, the Seattle startup veteran who has led marketing teams for Porch, Big Door and Moz, has moved on from the Emerald City. She’s now working for New York-based ClassPass as the fitness membership… Read More
PALM DESERT, Calif. — SAP CEO Bill McDermott started his entrepreneurial career as a teenager serving deli sandwiches at a corner store in New York, blue collar roots that have stuck… Read More
Two co-founders and one longtime executive of Bellevue-based Concur announced today that they’re taking top jobs at a 700-person healthcare company on the brink of making a major technology overhaul. Former… Read More
When your company gets acquired for $8.3 billion by a 43-year-old German multinational software kingpin, a lot can change to culture and process. But for Bellevue-based travel expense company Concur Technologies,… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Concur CEO Steve Singh sees a world in which new “business networks” help connect businesses with a broader ecosystem of tools and services to help their customers. And… Read More
If the tech world is fueled by anything, it’s caffeine and ideas. So it was only a matter of time until a tech company officially merged the two. German software… Read More
Back in September, Concur co-founders Mike Hilton and Raj Singh faced a difficult decision. They had stuck together for the past 22 years, building up a successful travel expense company… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Watching a live sporting event on TV several years from now might look and feel a bit different. At Panasonic’s big CES booth in Las Vegas this week,… Read More
Bellevue-based Concur, the maker of travel and entertainment expense management software, is one step closer to becoming a part of SAP. Concur shareholders today approved the $8.3 billion deal. The… Read More
SAP’s blockbuster $8.3 billion purchase of Bellevue-based travel and entertainment expense management software company Concur Technologies still must meet with stockholder and regulatory approval. But if all things go as… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – So, how did Concur land an $8.3 billion acquisition deal with SAP? According to CEO Steve Singh, the key was building out the Bellevue company’s presence in mobile… Read More
SAP’s whopping $8.3 billion acquisition of Concur is moving forward, with approval from the boards of both companies. But the deal has not yet been consummated, and still must meet… Read More
SAP is buying Bellevue-based Concur Technologies in deal valued at $8.3 billion, a 20 percent premium over the Sept. 17th closing price. Founded in 1993, Concur successfully transformed itself into… Read More
An expanded partnership between Microsoft and enterprise software giant SAP, announced this morning, has the potential to boost Windows Phone and help the Redmond company compete more effectively against its two of its biggest… Read More