Verizon, Accenture to manage SAP apps

Verizon Business is teaming up with Accenture to offer enterprises a service that manages SAP applications end-to-end, along with the networks that carry those apps. The new offering has SAP certification, reports Light Reading.

Verizon is not the first telecom service provider to jump into the business of managing SAP applications. AT&T has been in the SAP applications hosting market since reaching a marketing alliance with SAP and has even teamed with Accenture on SAP migration work.

But Verizon's Anthony Kessel, senior product manager for IT solutions, says Verizon's global partnership with Accenture, announced a year ago, will enable Verizon to bring greater global depth to its offer.

A day before Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPad, Appcelerator told the world that its Titanium Web-code-meets-local-app development kit would embrace the long-awaited Apple device, states The Register.

In the days since, over 1 000 developers have downloaded the kit and registered to use it. Prior to the unveiling, Appcelerator conducted a poll of its existing developers, indicating that 90% intended to build an app for the iPad within the coming year.

Of the 554 developers polled, 58% said they were "very interested" in building for the iPad, which put the new device behind only the iPhone and Google's Android platform.

There will be a JavaOne this year, says eWeek.

During Oracle's Oracle & Sun Strategy Update talk, Oracle president Charles Phillips announced that JavaOne would be held from 19 to 23 September in San Francisco.

JavaOne is the largest annual convention for Java developers, previously put on by Sun Microsystems and now by Oracle. The event has been going on since 1996.