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• Telstra-owned Ooyala names new APJ vice president

  ​Telstra-owned software provider Ooyala has appointed Patricio Cummins to the role of vice president for Asia Pacific and Japan.

• Investment firm snaps up BMC Software in multibillion-dollar deal

  BMC Software has been acquired by investment firm, KKR, five years after the enterprise provider was taken private by a consortium of private equity buyers.

• Cisco's software transition still a work in progress

  Dour current-quarter forecasts indicate that the company's transition to a software-focused business remaines a work in progress.

• Balancing act: SAP navigates Russian risks

  Most Western tech companies are losing ground in Russia under the weight of restrictive rules and mounting local competition. Germany's SAP is thriving.

• Nokia advances beyond telecoms with software acquisition

  Nokia has acquired software maker SpaceTime Insight, marking the equipment supplier's latest push to expand beyond telecoms.

• For IT, Microsoft 365 shows what still matters about Windows

  Users might view this as a subscription bundle that provides Office and Windows, but for the company, Microsoft 365 simplifies how businesses manage PC software.

• Federal prosecutors target Windows 10 over data concerns

  Federal prosecutors in Brazil asked a court to force Microsoft to change its default installation process for Windows 10, which they said violated several local laws.

• Quadruple hire positions Crayon for future APAC growth

  Crayon has appointed four senior leaders within the regional business in a bid to drive further growth across Asia Pacific.

• Salesforce partner drives audience engagement with Lightning launch

  Magnet 360 unveils new offering built on Salesforce Lightning enterprise application framework, designed to drive audience engagement among organisations.

• Bullish SAP gains ground on Salesforce and Oracle in the cloud

  Software giant reports upbeat results in the seasonally tough first quarter, saying it was gaining ground on competitors Salesforce and Oracle in the cloud.

• Microsoft boosts anti-phishing skills of Chrome, the IE and Edge killer

  Redmond releases add-on for Chrome – dubbed 'Windows Defender Browser Protection' – effectively giving up a major asset in its own Edge browser.

• CRM is now the largest software market in the world

  Customer relationship management (CRM) software revenue overtook that of database management systems (DBMSs) at the end of 2017.

• Salesforce confirms $6.5B MuleSoft buy

  Salesforce has confirmed it has struck a deal to acquire fellow US software maker, MuleSoft, for approximately US$6.5 billion.

• Office 2019 will only run on Windows 10, and will begin previews next quarter

  Microsoft said users should expect to see previews of the Office 2019 apps next quarter, but subscribers will need Windows 10 to run them.

• G Suite isn’t killing Microsoft, but Google’s still winning converts

  Alphabet Inc's Google has struggled for years to get big businesses to embrace G Suite, its hip alternative to Microsoft Office.