The battle for ownership of the retail enterprise application market has begun, with both SAP and Oracle tendering offers for Retek. These events have pitted two competitive players against each other ...

While the broad, enterprise applications vendors such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft report shrinking revenues, a handful of companies competing with them in specific vertical markets are ...

Looking to boost what has been perceived as an underwhelming presence in the retail market, SAP AG last week gobbled up software maker Retek Inc. SAP said it has agreed to pay $496 million for ...

As SAP and Oracle slug it out over acquiring Retek, a retail application software vendor, the real story is obviously not about who wins the prize but what’s inside the box. The answer is that Retek ...

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Oracle Corp. announced late yesterday that it has won its bidding war against German software rival SAP AG to acquire retail management software developer Retek Inc. Oracle and Retek have signed a ...

When software giant SAP announced that it had agreed to buy Retek, a specialist in retail systems, the first reaction of most observers was: "Who?" Although the company was ranked the fourth fastest ...