Manhattan Associates (MANH) will report its first-quarter earnings after the market close Tuesday, with the numbers expected to show that the company is working through the same issues it faced a year ago. The leading provider of warehouse management software, which competes with SAP (SAP), Oracle (ORCL) and others, has been struggling in a weak macro environment that has limited its license growth in the past two years. On the flip side,
Larry Ellison has had a knack for anticipating the next critical need in business technology. The legendary technology executive’s sharp business acumen was on full display soon after his company, Oracle (ORCL), finished its first database software project in the early 1980s. The U.S. Air Force hired Oracle, then a consulting company, to design database software to be used on its Amdahl mainframe computers. Almost immediately, Ellison, Oracle’s
Tableau Software is getting some traction in the cloud. Tableau (DATA) was set to announce on Tuesday that it has signed up more than 1,000 enterprise customers to a cloud-based version of its data analytics software. The company released its cloud package last July, looking to better serve customers and better compete with rivals that include business software leaders Oracle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP). Tableau’s cloud service, which lets companies