rumours: samsung, oracle, sap possible partnerships oracle and sap just came into picture. read below:
“A good enterprise partner for them might be an SAP or an Oracle,” says Joe Compeau, a lecturer in information systems at the Ivey Business School. “Security is a little more important part of those systems, so BlackBerry would be a natural fit.”
SAP and Oracle are increasingly moving to cloud-based services, and BlackBerry announced Wednesday that it would providing a cloud-hosted version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 suite for the first time, meaning companies no longer need to maintain their own BES10 servers.
“I think SAP is probably the front of the pack, given Chen’s legacy with them [the company purchased Sybase in 2010] … SAP is a known quantity to him,” says independent technology analyst Carmi Levy.
In recent days, BlackBerry also announced the arrival of Marty Beard as its new chief operating officer; he worked with Mr. Chen at Sybase and has a history with Oracle as well.
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