SAP’s HANA brings live World Cup info home

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has partnered with SAP as its exclusive analytics and cloud partner for the Cricket World Cup tournament, using the in-memory HANA platform to power live match experiences across the ICC’s network of Web sites.

World Cup a focus for online threats

The recent World Cup has lead to a peak in malware activity registered in Brazil. Kaspersky Lab blocked 87 776 attempts to launch malicious programs in the country, which is four times higher than second-place Russia. The FIFA World Cup officially kicked off on the 12...

Ericsson prepared World Cup network

Ericsson Key Event Experience solution has been implemented to support Telefonica | Vivo in 2014 World Cup, held in Brazil. The solution, used at events that usually lead to a drastic increase in mobile traffic, was used for the first time in Brazil by the operator....

Bing Predicts got World Cup spot on

Bing Predicts, the forecasting tool of the Microsoft search platform, scored an almost perfect score in its predictions for the World Cup.

SAP contributes to Germany win

SAP contributes to Germany win

Germany has taken their fourth World Cup title thanks to a 1-0 win over Argentina at the Maracanã stadium – partly due to SAP’s Match Insight technology.