SAP Reports Strong Growth
in Software and Software
Related Service Revenues By SAP News Desk SAP reported its ninth
consecutive quarter of
share gains. Based on
U.S. GAAP first quarter
2008 software and
software related service
revenues on a rolling
four-quarter basis, SAP's
worldwide share of Core
Enterprise Applications
vendors, which account
for approx... May. 1, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 1,808 |
Bank of America Selects
SAP By SAP News Desk SAP announced that Bank
of America has selected
SAP ERP to further
integrate and enhance the
bank's internal financial
reporting systems. The
enterprise resource
planning (ERP)
application, based on a
scalable platform, will
provide Bank of America
with a comprehe... Apr. 30, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 1,914 |
Alti and SAPBUREAU
Announce Joint Venture to
Launch AltiSAP By SAP News Desk Alti is pleased to
announce a joint venture
with SAPBUREAU, part of
the international ADA
Software Group. This
collaborative initiative
launches a new North
American organization
called AltiSAP, with the
goal of rapidly growing
SAP-focused solutions and
high-value... Apr. 30, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 1,893 |
SAP Reports Poor First
Quarter; Profits Slump
22% By SAP News Desk 'Our growth strategy,
which comprises three
pillars - the established
business, the midmarket
and the business user
solutions - is working
quite well,' said SAP's
Chief Executive Henning
Kagermann, as Europe's
largest maker of
business-management
software today re... Apr. 30, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 2,117 |
SAP Partners with
Crossgate to Provided
E-Invoicing Services By SAP News Desk Crossgate will extend the
scope of its
collaboration with SAP in
the field of business
process outsourcing
(BPO). The goal is to
make life easier for
organizations that want
to streamline their
financial supply chain,
thereby saving money and
helping the environme... Apr. 22, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 1,142 |
Conformia Development
Operations Management
Named SAP-Endorsed
Business Solution By SAP News Desk Conformia announced that
its Development
Operations Management
Solution (DevOps) - a
combination of the
Conformia Scale Up
Management System (SUMS)
and Product Conformance
Management (PCM) platform
- is now an SAP-endorsed
business solution. SAP's
endorsement mark... Mar. 24, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 1,985 |
Novell and SAP Extend
Partnership By SAP News Desk US-based software firm
Novell has extended its
partnership with SAP to
deliver expanded support
options to companies
running their business
operations on SAP
applications and the SUSE
Linux Enterprise
operating system. Mar. 19, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 2,454 |
Nationwide Selects SAP By SAP News Desk SAP announced that
Nationwide has selected
the SAP for Banking
solution portfolio as its
new technology platform.
Nationwide will implement
the new software as part
of a business
transformation program to
provide increased
benefits to its
customers. By doing so,
... Mar. 18, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,338 |
Riverbed Steelhead
Appliance Achieves SAP
Certified Integration By SAP News Desk Riverbed Technology
announced that its
Riverbed Steelhead
appliance running the
Riverbed Optimization
System (RiOS) version 4.0
has achieved SAP
Certified Integration for
third-party networking
appliances that
interoperate with SAP
solutions using the SAP
NetWea... Mar. 17, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 2,164 |
Esker DeliveryWare 4.0
Achieves SAP Certified
Integration for SAP's New
Enterprise Services-Based
Interface - enterprise
SOA By SAP News Desk Esker announced its Esker
DeliveryWare 4.0 -
Esker's Document Process
Automation solution - has
achieved SAP Certified
Integration for SAP's new
Enterprise Services-based
(enterprise SOA)
interface, thus achieving
'Powered by SAP
NetWeaver' status. Esker
is among ... Feb. 25, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 2,618 |
Siemens AG Chooses
Security Weaver to Handle
Global SoD SAP Compliance
Reporting By SAP News Desk Security Weaver announced
that Siemens AG has
selected Security Weaver
for managing segregation
of duties (SoD)
violations in the area of
P2P processes to ensure
SAP systems are free of
SoD conflicts and
inappropriate access to
sensitive transactions. Feb. 25, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 1,127 |
HCL Technologies
Announces Global Services
Partnership With SAP to
Deliver Joint Business
Value Through Customer
Centric Ecosystem By SAP News Desk HCL Technologies
announced an expanded
global services
partnership with SAP that
underscores SAP's focus
on extending its industry
lead in ecosystem
innovation, and HCL's
focus on delivering value
to its customers through
collaboration. HCL's new
global services
... Feb. 21, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 1,472 |
Capgemini Positioned In
Leaders Quadrant Among
SAP Implementation
Providers By Independent
Research Firm By SAP News Desk Capgemini was ranked in
the 'Leaders' category
among SAP implementation
providers by Forrester
Research, an independent
technology and market
research firm. Feb. 19, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 1,093 |
Camstar Announces Broader
Manufacturing
Intelligence Solution for
SAP By SAP News Desk Camstar Systems announced
the release of its eDHR
Intelligence version 4.2
application for Medical
Device manufacturers. It
is an application on
SAP's xMII platform to
provide an out-of-the-box
method for Medical Device
manufacturers to measure
performance of the
... Feb. 7, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 2,469 |
Asigra Achieves Certified
for SAP NetWeaver Status By SAP News Desk Asigra announced that the
company's flagship
product, Asigra
Televaulting 8.0, has
achieved 'Certified for
SAP NetWeaver' status
from SAP AG. Asigra
Televaulting has been
certified for integration
with the SAP NetWeaver
platform Release 7.0 via
the SAP integration... Jan. 30, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 2,207 |
Florida Power & Light
Generates Growth With SAP By SAP News Desk SAP AG announced that
Florida Power & Light
Company has selected the
SAP for Utilities
solution portfolio. FPL
will consolidate numerous
disparate systems to
better manage corporate
planning, asset
management and compliance
reporting, and provide a
standard platfo... Jan. 30, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 1,179 |
Industry Moves: SAP Makes
Two Major Appointments By SAP News Desk SAP continues to
strengthen a global
business unit responsible
for an ongoing market
development among small
businesses and midsize
companies by today
appointing Patricia R.
Hume as senior vice
president, SAP Indirect
Channel Organization, and
Morag Lucey as execu... Jan. 24, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 2,833 |
Attenda Is Re-certified
as SAP Hosting Partner By SAP News Desk Attenda Limited announced
that it has been
re-certified by SAP as an
SAP hosting partner at
Advanced level. As a
certified SAP hosting
partner, this
re-accreditation confirms
that Attenda fulfils all
of the technical audit
requirements and its
business model meets... Jan. 18, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 1,931 |
Neoris Named a Strong
Performer in SAP
Implementation Services
by Independent Research
Firm By SAP News Desk Neoris announced that it
has been recognized as a
'strong performer' in a
December 2007 report from
Forrester Research,
titled 'Forrester Wave:
SAP Implementation
Providers, Q4 2007.'
Neoris was among the
select companies that
Forrester invited to
participate in t... Jan. 18, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 1,433 |
Beam Global Leads Spirits
Industry with Single
Instance of SAP
Achievement By SAP News Desk Capgemini is helping Beam
Global Spirits & Wine,
Inc., achieve a
leadership position in
the spirits industry
through SAP Business
Suite implementation.
Beam Global is leading
the spirits industry
through its innovation
and achievement of a
single-instance of SAP
... Dec. 21, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 2,150 |
SAP Community Network
Recognition Program To
Launch By SAP News Desk  For several years, SAP
has successfully
encouraged members of the
SDN and Business Process
Expert communities to
share their knowledge and
experience with other
members through a member
recognition program that
awards points for
contributions to the
community, suc... Dec. 17, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 2,630 |
India Drives
Unprecedented Growth for
SAP Ecosystem By SAP News Desk SAP AG announced growth
in its ecosystem across
India, which is the
location for the final
event in the SAP® TechEd
'07 series. Indian
customers and partners
have more than doubled
their membership and
activities within SAP
communities of
innovation, showing Indi... Dec. 17, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 2,860 |
Juniper Networks WX and
DX Application
Acceleration Platforms
Achieve SAP Certified
Integration By SAP News Desk Juniper Networks, Inc.
announced that the
company?s application
acceleration platforms
have achieved SAP
Certified Integration.
The certified integration
affirms that enterprises
deploying services and
applications using an
enterprise
service-oriented
architectu... Dec. 17, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 3,444 |
Visual Numerics to Sell
SAP NetWeaver By SAP News Desk Visual Numerics announced
an OEM agreement with SAP
AG. Under the terms of
the agreement, the Visual
Numerics' IMSL C
Numerical Library version
6.0 will be embedded into
the SAP NetWeaver
platform. The IMSL C
Library will be
integrated into TREX - a
structured and... Dec. 14, 2007 02:15 PM Reads: 3,452 |
SAP Targets iPhone with
Its Web 2.0 Move By SAP News Desk SAP, in a
Salesforce-beware move,
has Web 2.0'd its
next-generation CRM 2007
kit so it'll work on
Apple iPhones and load
business contacts, info
on prospects and account
data. It told Reuters,
which was in Boston for
the unveiling, that it
was responding to demand... Dec. 9, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 5,937 Replies: 1 |
The SAP World is ...
Virtual By SAP News Desk Virtualization is one of
the most interesting IT
topics these days.
Whereas one can find a
lot of concepts and high
level content provided by
various vendors, it's
still a challenge to find
detailed technical
information on how to use
it in SAP landscapes.
This se... Nov. 8, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 5,794 Replies: 1 |
SAP Contributes to
Eclipse By SAP News Desk SAP has contributed a
NetWeaver tool to
Eclipse, its first
experience contributing
widgetry to the open
source IDE. It says it
will be easier for Java
developers to analyze
memory use in
applications created in
Eclipse. It should give
them a better idea how to
o... Oct. 31, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 6,678 Replies: 1 |
SAP Presents at
Virtualization Conference
& Expo By SAP News Desk Virtualization is one of
the most interesting IT
topics these days.
Whereas you can find a
lot of concepts and
high-level content
provided by various
vendors, it's still a
challenge to find
detailed technical
information on how to use
it in SAP landscapes.
This ... Oct. 19, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 6,276 |
How Unlike SAP, With Its
Talk of Doing Only
"Tuck-in" Acquisitions
and Organic Growth By SAP News Desk Proving the rumor mill
right, the well-shopped
Business Objects is
getting acquired by SAP,
which agreed to pay $6.8
billion for it over the
weekend. In euros that's
4.8 billion, a 20%
premium, 32% if you look
at Business Objects'
performance the last
three months... Oct. 13, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 7,917 Replies: 1 |
SAP To Buy Business
Objects For $6.8BN By SAP News Desk  SAP has agreed to buy
Business Objects, just as
SYS-CON.com speculated it
might back in
mid-September. CEO John
G. Schwarz is to be kept
on, and SAP says it's
going to keep the
Business Objects brand
and let the company
operate as a standalone
entity. Oct. 9, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 11,677 |
SAP To Offer Individual
Developer Licenses for
SAP NetWeaver By SAP News Desk  SAP has announced that
for the first time,
individual developers can
now purchase an annual
developer license for the
SAP NetWeaver platform,
allowing them to create
various types of
customized user
interfaces for SAP
NetWeaver applications
that can be based on
either Java or ABAP. Oct. 3, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 10,440 |
MySQL AB to Optimize Its
Open Source Database for
SAP NetWeaver By SAP News Desk  MySQL AB has plans to
optimize the MySQL
Enterprise Server for the
SAP NetWeaver platform.
MySQL and SAP AG also
announced that the sales
and support of the MaxDB
database will revert back
to SAP, in order to unify
the product's
development,
distribution, and supp... Oct. 3, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 10,385 |
An SOA On-Demand Solution
from SAP By SAP News Desk SAP AG released SAP
Business ByDesign, an
on-demand business
software solution
specifically addressing a
new market of
prospective, fast-growing
midsize customers.
Designed around four key
principles -
completeness, ease of
use, adaptability and
significantly cu... Sep. 20, 2007 03:15 PM Reads: 6,847 |
Who Will Acquire Business
Objects: SAP, IBM, or
Oracle? By SAP News Desk  The French daily Le
Figaro published at the
weekend a report that
French-American software
group Business Objects is
in play and has
commissioned Goldman
Sachs to find a suitor.
Shares in the company,
which has large market
share in the Business
Intelligence/Analy... Sep. 17, 2007 08:45 PM Reads: 13,296 |
Oracle vs SAP: IP Theft
Allegation Case To Go To
Speedy Mediation By SAP News Desk Oracle's claim that SAP
collated its software
illegally through
downloads has resulted in
the German software giant
asking a US court to
order appoint a mediator
so that settlement talks
can commence immediately.
The papers were filed
with the US District
Court fo... Aug. 30, 2007 08:00 AM Reads: 10,273 |
In 2-5 Years, SAP and
Oracle Will Upgrade ERP
Applications to Web 2.0 By SAP News Desk In 2-5 years, SAP and
Oracle will upgrade ERP
applications to Web 2.0.
However, a lack of
standards, dominant
frameworks, and IDEs
inhibit mass AJAX
adoption. Today,
upgrading
mission-critical
applications with AJAX is
considered risky. HP is
working with
indu... Aug. 29, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 11,321 Replies: 1 |
SAP Confesses to Petty
Theft, Not Industrial
Espionage By SAP News Desk SAP has admitted that its
TomorrowNow (TN)
subsidiary downloaded
unauthorized 'fixes and
support documents' from
Oracle's web site but
claims there was a
Chinese Wall between SAP
and TN that prevented SAP
from having access to
Oracle's IP as Oracle
contends. SAP m... Jul. 13, 2007 08:45 PM Reads: 13,293 Replies: 2 |
SAP To Present
"Virtualization and SOA"
Session at SOA World
Conference & Expo 2007
East By SAP News Desk Virtualization helps to
run SAP solutions with
more flexibility and
lower TCO. SAP is working
with a variety of
different partners to
offer optimal integration
of virtualization
products, technologies
and concepts with
enterprise SOA and SAP
NetWeaver. You will le... Jun. 2, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 12,766 |
SAP Backs SUSE By SAP News Desk SAP is recommending SUSE
as its preferred Linux
platform, the stuff of
which stacks are made,
and Novell is going start
being the first line of
defense for people
running SAP applications
on SUSE. SAP's great
rival, Oracle, of course
is now peddling its own
anti-Red Hat Linux. May. 19, 2007 10:15 PM Reads: 13,789 Replies: 2 |
Microsoft & SAP Do More
Duets By SAP News Desk There's also a Duet 3.0
planned for the
next-generation of SAP
Business Suite apps and
Office, including
SharePoint. Duet 3.0 is
heralded as a testament
to enterprise SOA. The
software has reportedly
attracted 250 customers,
a total of 400,000
licenses, in less than a
year. May. 3, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 7,616 |
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