Tuesday, 27 October 2026

11 stories, filed between 07:49 and 16:49. Times are filing times in Bratislava, not the time of the event.

Amazon's CEO said AWS capacity for next year is largely sold. He said Amazon struggles to keep pace.

Andy Jassy, the chief executive of Amazon, spoke on Friday in a video podcast with Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg of Andreessen Horowitz, Reuters reported.

Software business · Tue 27 Oct, 16:49 · via Reuters · Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

ERP programmes

14:09
SAP will stop giving away its AI agent builder after December. Its release note gives no price for the premium version.
SAP News Center
11:29
Oracle released 25 AI apps, including one that helps reconcile accounting entries. Its announcement named no price.
Oracle
09:09
Insurer IAG paused an SAP migration to map 300-plus processes. It cleared 40% of its company codes before migrating data.
iTnews
08:29
Oracle's NetSuite launched an AI tool it says cuts set-up to weeks, or even days. Consultants oversee the AI's work.
CIO.com
07:49
SAP ends main ECC support in 2027. Firms that move off it can lose the record of which payment settled which invoice.
ERP Today

AI at work

16:09
Claude maker Anthropic filed to go public with an $81 billion half-year loss. The filing shows $72 billion was not cash.
The Stack
09:49
Microsoft offered 60,000 staff, about a quarter of its workforce, money to leave. It says AI is not the reason.
The Register

Software business

15:09
Warwickshire approved a Microsoft renewal worth about £9m in principle. It still has to find the extra £375,000 a year.
Computer Weekly
10:49
Tesco wants to move its stores off VMware, a job ad shows. It is suing VMware to keep support for its licences.
The Stack

Security

12:09
Microsoft rushed out a .NET security fix on Sunday. Google's Brotli code was patched in February, but no one saw the danger.
The Register

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Amazon's CEO said AWS capacity for next year is largely sold. He said Amazon struggles to keep pace.

ERP programmes

SAP will stop giving away its AI agent builder after December. Its release note gives no price for the premium version.

Oracle released 25 AI apps, including one that helps reconcile accounting entries. Its announcement named no price.

Insurer IAG paused an SAP migration to map 300-plus processes. It cleared 40% of its company codes before migrating data.

Oracle's NetSuite launched an AI tool it says cuts set-up to weeks, or even days. Consultants oversee the AI's work.

SAP ends main ECC support in 2027. Firms that move off it can lose the record of which payment settled which invoice.

AI at work

Claude maker Anthropic filed to go public with an $81 billion half-year loss. The filing shows $72 billion was not cash.

Microsoft offered 60,000 staff, about a quarter of its workforce, money to leave. It says AI is not the reason.

Software business

Warwickshire approved a Microsoft renewal worth about £9m in principle. It still has to find the extra £375,000 a year.

Tesco wants to move its stores off VMware, a job ad shows. It is suing VMware to keep support for its licences.

Security

Microsoft rushed out a .NET security fix on Sunday. Google's Brotli code was patched in February, but no one saw the danger.

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