Legacy application complexity coupled with next generation connected business needs is hugely challenging for large enterprise software companies. The SAP SuccessFactors purchase may signal a new approach to melding old with new
Distance learning - providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance - has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services.In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take a pounding given the huge personal expense and often substantial debt involved, so I was interested to see a new business from for-profit online tutoring company Smarthinking.