Category: Enterprise
hybris enables digital content providers to create high-value, ongoing relationships with customers
hybris has further strengthened its position of offering the most agile, most modern commerce platform by announcing important new features that empower publishers of books, magazines, games and software, as well as other service providers, to sell more digital goods, content and services online.
“Digital products are different from physical products. They’re alive,” stated Ariel Ludi, CEO of hybris. “Using the internet to stay connected after the initial sale, offering related or next-in-series products in context, gives publishers of any digital goods or content the ability to have high-value perpetual digital relationships with their customers. hybris helps them create – and grow – those relationships.”
A host of new enhancements to the hybris Commerce Suite, purpose-built to support the sale of non-physical products, enables online sellers to offer a variety of flexible recurring pricing models. In addition, merchandisers can easily construct complex bundles of products, with sophisticated rule-based discounts, and give their customers the power to create their own packages with a modern guided-selling user experience.
Mugshot: Informix
Founded as Relational Database Systems Inc in 1980, Informix Sofware was a leading developer of relational database management software across a variety of platforms, including Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and Unix. After selling its core […]
NetApp unleashes new Data ONTAP to enable greater IT agility

Global business faces a new era in which agility in IT is central to success, today and in the future. Competition, an always-on global economy, and the urgency to make data a propellant for advantage all require the CIO to provide the business with an infrastructure agile enough to cope with a very dynamic business environment. Customers want to accelerate their business with greater efficiency and productivity, but they must think differently to remove the complexity, cost, and inefficiencies of decade-old IT approaches.
Today, businesses can make agility in IT a reality. NetApp, in collaboration with its partners, is introducing a new way for customers to fundamentally architect and manage their data storage infrastructure differently to be more agile. Building on years of storage efficiency and clustering innovation, new platform features, products, and technologies with the latest release of Data ONTAP software, enable IT to better respond to changing business requirements, maintain non-disruptive operations, and grow the business without limits.e future. Competition, an always-on global economy, and the urgency to make data a propellant for advantage all require the CIO to provide the business with an infrastructure agile enough to cope with a very dynamic business environment. Customers want to accelerate their business with greater efficiency and productivity, but they must think differently to remove the complexity, cost, and inefficiencies of decade-old IT approaches.
Evolution of IT shows
SITEX has just started in Singapore and crowds are expected to throng the halls at Singapore Expo for bargains — just like they did three previous times this year. Singapore has four major IT shows […]
HKSTPC Chairman wins Directors of the Year Awards 2012
Nicholas Brooke, Chairman of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC), has been awarded the “Directors of the Year Awards 2012” by The Hong Kong Institute of Directors. The annual award is highly regarded […]
HP Elitepad soars with Emirates
HP’s new tablets has won over an admirer. Emirates Airlines has started equipping its cabin crew with HP’s ElitePad 900 Windows 8 Enterprise tablets to improve customer service. Running on Windows 8, the new […]
Mugshot: Data General
Minicomputers used to be hot — really hot — from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. And one of the leading players then was Data General. Unfortunately, the emergence of the microcomputer led to […]
ZTE launches energy saving solution for LTE networks
ZTE has launched an energy saving solution to help operators reduce energy consumption in their LTE networks. According to test results, a single site employing this solution can save up to 40 percent in power […]
Mugshot: HP and Apple
HP and printers are synonymous. For more than two decades, HP has been producing and delivering award winning printers — both inkjet and laser. Today, it carries many models that give companies more than just […]
ZTE sells shares in Changfei Investment, invests in China All Access
Telecommunications equipment and network solutions provider ZTE Corporation has agreed to sell its 81 percent stake in Changfei Investment to Guangdong All Access and CCBI (Shenzhen). The disposal will generate between RMB450 million and RMB850 […]
Mugshot: Ashton-Tate
Remember Ashton-Tate? Some of us may not have heard of the company but it was one of the top software companies in the 1980s and 1990s — ranking alongside Microsoft and Lotus — and is renowned […]
AMD fights on amidst the rumbles
What happened to AMD? Sean Hollister of The Verge asks this pointed question as he analyses development at the chipmaker in recent years. Fighting the behemoth that is Intel, AMD had done well to carve a […]
NetApp announces Q2 results
Storage and data management solution provider NetApp has reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013, which ended October 26, 2012. Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 totaled $1.541 billion […]
There is no silver bullet to guarantee merchandizing success
Contributed by Burghardt Groeber, Vice President of hybris Asia Matching your business’ interests with those of your online customers’ is a delicate balancing act. On the one hand, you want the customer to find the product that […]
GPU Accelerators support enable faster simulations
Seventy more widely used applications have added support for GPU acceleration so far this year, bringing the total number available to researchers, engineers and designers to more than 200, according to NVIDIA. Three of the newest applications to […]
Gartner: Asia Pacific IT spending to reach US$743 billion in 2013
IT spending in Asia Pacific is forecast to reach US$743 billion in 2013, an increase of 7.9 percent over 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2012, IT spending in Asia Pacific is on pace to […]
Titan is fastest supercomputer
The US now has the fastest supercomputer in the world. Running on the newly released NVIDIA Tesla K20 family of GPU accelerators, Titan is the world’s fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 list released at the […]
