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• FIS seeks to boost financial software portfolio with $9.1B Sungard acquisition

  SunGard, owned for the past decade by a group of private equity firms, had been planning to launch an IPO

• Workday spans finance and HR with real-time planning tool

  The new offering taps Workday's in-memory architecture

• Workday targets professional services with new suite

  Featuring both finance and HR capabilities, it aims to deliver a one-stop alternative for companies focused on billable projects

• New SAP Cloud app targets finance professionals

  Built on Hana, this application aims to give CFOs and other planners a consumer-like experience

• Intuit backpedals from TurboTax changes after upgrade uproar

  Intuit has again apologized for stiffing TurboTax customers by not telling them of changes in its business model.

• Workday plots wave of predictive analytic apps

  The move could help the cloud finance and human-resources sofware vendor win more big enterprise deals