SAP Challenges Oracle by Boosting Flagship Software Speed
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SAP AG unveiled the biggest overhaul to its mainstay enterprise software in two decades, in a move to cement its dominance in that market while springing an attack on Oracle Corp.’s database business.
At an event in Palo Alto, California, the German company showed a much faster version of its Business Suite software running on top of its Hana database. By speeding up business tasks from pricing airline tickets to predicting weather, SAP is pushing to replace database software from Oracle, Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. that customers use to process and analyze information, SAP executives said.