Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd has removed himself from the software company's operations while he battles an un-specified, but apparently long-term illness. The company announced this week that chairman Larry Ellison and co-CEO Safra Catz will take over his duties.

Acumatica touted integration of third-party applications and cross-product workflow as it introduced the Acumatica 2019 R2 release this week. That included Data Self, which links Tableau functionality.

An 11-percent decline in license revenue cut into Infor’s results for the first quarter ended July 31. With license income off 15 percent in constant currency for two consecutive quarters, the results seemed to cool off the software company’s talk of a possible initial public offering.