Apple partners with SAP to better position iOS devices in enterprise

Apple and SAP are partnering on aiming "to revolutionize the mobile work experience for enterprise customers of all sizes," the companies are hoping to achieve this by combining powerful native apps for iPhone and iPad with the cutting-edge capabilities of the SAP HANA platform.

This joint effort will also deliver a new iOS software development kit (SDK) and training academy so that developers, partners and customers can easily build native iOS apps tailored to their business needs.

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Imagine Dragons partners with Apple and SAP to release exclusive single for refugee crisis relief

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Hoping to help alleviate the refugee and migrant crisis that hit Europe, Imagine Dragons teamed up with Apple and SAP to release a new single on iTunes entitled "I Was Me." All proceeds of the song will go to the United Nations Refugee Agency. SAP, under its One4 Project banner, promises to donate an additional 10 cents per purchase for the first five million downloads, which could add US$500,000 more to the cause. 

Hundreds of thousands of migrants have been coming into Europe from Syria after they've fled the ongoing civil war. Apple has its own iTunes donations drive for the same cause but this courses through its charity partner the American Red Cross. This campaign lets you donate cash in increments ranging from $5 to $200. 

Source: Apple Insider 

IBM and SAP form biggest cloud partnership to accelerate enterprise adoption

Fresh from a groundbreaking partnership with former rival Apple Inc.,  IBM has nailed another blockbuster deal. IBM and SAP just announced the industry’s largest cloud deal -- and the biggest win for IBM Cloud to date. With this agreement, IBM has become the global enterprise cloud platform  providing large companies and mainstream business with access to SAP's complex and business-critical applications via the IBM Cloud. 

“This announcement is a significant milestone in the deployment of enterprise cloud,” said IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty. “It builds on our two companies’ long history of bringing innovation to business, and extends IBM’s position as the premier global cloud platform. Our secure, open, hybrid enterprise cloud platform will enable SAP clients to support new ways to work in an era shaped by Big Data, mobile and social." Hit jump for more details.

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