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Oracle vs SAP: Oracle
Helping SAP Customers to
Get 'Off SAP' By SAP News Desk To help SAP customers
migrate from SAP to
Oracle, Oracle has
announced it is offering
an alternative to SAP R/3
customers faced with
having to re-license and
re-implement their
applications in order to
upgrade to mySAP ERP or
mySAP Business Suite:
they can move to... Jun. 16, 2005 03:45 AM Reads: 5,209 Replies: 1 | SAP's McDermott Calls for
Volunteerism By SAP News Desk SAP America CEO Bill
McDermott is helping to
lead a new effort aimed
at creating more than 6
million new volunteers in
the U.S. over the next
two years. His remarks
came at SAP's Sapphire
'05 event in Boston, and
were recently
re-affirmed. May. 26, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 6,641 | SAP "Moving Faster Than
Java Was 10 Years Ago,"
Says Agassi By SAP News Desk SAP executives were
upbeat in their
assessment of their ESA
web services strategy.
Noting that attendance at
its Sapphire event is up
40% from a year ago, the
company said that with
its new 'Mendocino'
strategy with Microsoft,
and its general momentum
throughout t... May. 20, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 15,743 | Microsoft and SAP Partner
on Mendocino By SAP News Desk Microsoft and SAP are
showing unanimity in
their early messages
about 'Mendocino,' a
joint effort that aims to
improve the efficiency of
decision-making processes
throughout organizations. May. 18, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 9,956 | SAP CEO Outlines "Next
Practices" By SAP News Desk SAP has joined with
Microsoft to deliver a
joint enterprise IT
approached codenamed
'Mendocino' that aims to
integrate MS Office
Professional with mySAP.
But the real innovation
will come from the
companies' customers,
according to SAP CEO
Henning Kagermann,
speaking today in Boston. May. 18, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 9,819 | Amir Blich of SAP By SAP News Desk  Sapphire '05 Boston May. 17, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 9,408 | Dennis Moore of SAP By SAP News Desk  Sapphire '05 Boston May. 17, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 8,547 | Ori Inbar of SAP
NetWeaver By SAP News Desk  Sapphire '05 Boston May. 17, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 9,532 | James White of SAP By SAP News Desk  Sapphire '05 Boston May. 17, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 10,716 | Yankee Group Sees SAP SOA
Driving HR BPO By SAP News Desk SAP's entrance into the
business process
outsourcing (BPO) market
marks a major turning
point in the outsourcing
industry, according to
market researcher Yankee
Group. SAP's ERP model of
the 1990s is finally
transforming to adapt to
the growth in outsourced
servic... May. 2, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 7,231 | German Company Updates
SAP - Microsoft Project
Link By SAP News Desk PSLink 3.0 SE comprises a
detailed, rule-based
integration between
Microsoft Project and
SAP. It fulfills the
prerequisites of common
project management tasks,
says its developer, such
as deadline and resource
planning and SAP-related
tasks like the initial
cost p... Apr. 14, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 8,040 | SAP Launches Business
Process Outsourcing
Initiative By SAP News Desk SAP has announced a
program called 'BPO
Services Powered by SAP,'
to support the set-up and
ongoing operations of BPO
delivery platforms in
close collaboration with
leading BPO providers,
including ACS, ADP Inc.,
EDS and LogicaCMG. The
announcement was made at
HRO... Apr. 12, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 7,551 | Ellison Wins, SAP Loses:
Oracle Snatches Retek For
$643.3M By SAP News Desk Reuters is reporting that
Oracle's $11.25 per share
bid for software maker
Retek has been accepted,
according to Oracle
itself. The world's No. 3
software maker is also
poised today to announce
a Q3 sales surge of over
20%. Mar. 22, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,631 Replies: 7 | Busy Week for Google,
Oracle, Retek, SAP, Sun,
and SCO By SAP News Desk Stories from the week in
which SAP has seen itself
re-raised by Oracle in
its bidding war to
acquire Retek; Google
launched a site for
external developers
interested in
Google-related
development; Sun tinkered
with Java licensing; and
SCO sought to rekindle
its ... Mar. 20, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 6,820 Replies: 8 | SAP vs Oracle: SAP
Outbids Oracle's $525M
Retek Bid, Increases Its
Offer to $617M By SAP News Desk SAP's North American
subsidiary, SAP America,
Inc., today increased its
tender offer price for US
retail software
specialist Retek to
$11.00 per share in cash,
from $8.50. The Retek
board of directors is
unanimously recommending
to Retek stockholders
that they acc... Mar. 17, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 9,086 Replies: 2 | SAP Reaches Out To
Developers (Live on
SYS-CON.TV) By SAP News Desk Fresh from the eBay
keynote at Web Services
Edge 2005 in which eBay's
Matt Ackley revealed that
'SAP is using eBay to
sell its excess
inventory,' SYS-CON Media
group publisher Jeremy
Geelan had the pleasure
of speaking with SAP
Evangelist Ivo Totev on
SYS-CON.TV
... Mar. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,363 Replies: 1 | Ivo Totev, SAP By SAP News Desk  Web Services Edge 2005
East Mar. 2, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 8,623 | Infravio X-registry Earns
SAP NetWeaver
Certification By SAP News Desk Infravio today announced
its business services
registry, Infravio
X-registry, has earned
the 'Certified for SAP
NetWeaver' designation. Feb. 14, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 6,266 | SAP America Announces
Executive Appointments By SAP News Desk SAP America, Inc., the
U.S. and Canadian
subsidiary of SAP AG
(NYSE: SAP), this week
announced the addition of
several key executives to
its leadership team
overseeing strategic
market segments,
geographic territories,
vertical industries and
service units. The ne... Jan. 28, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,473 | SAP Uses Aruba Grid
Products To Secure Wired
And Mobile Networks By SAP News Desk Enterprises for the first
time have the ability to
deploy wired and wireless
security access on a per
user basis, with Aruba
Wireless Networks' grid
security controllers. Jan. 3, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 15,532 Replies: 1 | SAP Joins SYS-CON's Web
Services Edge 2005
Conference as Gold
Sponsor By SAP News Desk 'SAP is now delighted to
be able to participate in
the application server
shootout and demonstrate
the power of SAP Web
Application Server as a
development and runtime
platform for
enterprise-scale Java
applications,' said SAP's
Christopher Hearn as the
news was announced. Oct. 19, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,004 | SAP Joins SYS-CON's Web
Services Edge 2005
Conference as Gold
Sponsor and Confirms Its
Participation at the
Application Server S By SAP News Desk SYS-CON Media, the
world's leading
i-technology magazine
publisher, today
announced further details
of the 'Application
Server Shoot-Out' due to
take place at its
upcoming cross-platform
technology event, Web
Services Edge 2005 East -
International Web
Services ... Oct. 18, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 10,536 | SAP's NetWeaver '05 To
Support Enterprise Java By SAP News Desk SAP plans to support a
new distributed
environment, with its
NetWeaver platform, that
will support many Java
virtual machines running
together and sharing
resources. This approach
differs from the access
model in place today,
whereby multiple users
are tied to one... Oct. 13, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 6,915 | "HP's Problem Ain't the
SAP Install," Says Sun's
Schwartz By SAP News Desk 'To me, HP's problems
spawn from the death
of...their operating
system, HP/UX,' wrote
Jonathan Schwartz
yesterday in his
industry-focused blog.
'Like IBM, they've
elected to ask their
customers and ISVs to
move to Red Hat Linux or
Microsoft Windows on x86
system... Aug. 17, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 35,282 Replies: 7 | IBM's New eServer i5
Achieves Leading Result
on SAP Benchmark By SAP News Desk The new IBM eServer i5
Model 520 has achieved
the record result in the
two-tier SAP Sales and
Distribution (SD)
Standard Application
Benchmark on a 2-way
POWER5 processor-based
system. Jun. 9, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 6,905 | Microsoft + SAP: The
Acquisition That Never
Happened By SAP News Desk What do you do if you
have nearly $60 million
in cash reserves but
don't have an Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP)
package in your
portfolio? Why, you take
a serious look at the
world's third largest
software company, that's
what. And that's just
what Microsoft d... Jun. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 10,308 Replies: 5 | Librados Adapter
Integration Certified by
SAP By SAP News Desk SAP AG has certified the
Librados Adapter version
2.5 for SAP Web
Application Server
Release 6.20, including
the SAP R/3 Enterprise
Release 4.70 software
solution. May. 24, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 3,911 | SAP and RIM to Deliver
New Mobile CRM
Applications By SAP News Desk SAP AG and Research In
Motion (RIM) have
announced a technology
alliance that will
combine SAP's mySAP
Customer Relationship
Management (mySAP CRM)
solution and SAP
solutions for mobile
business with RIM's
BlackBerry wireless
handheld platform to
deliver an inte... May. 12, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 6,384 | IBM and SAP Expand Global
Strategic Alliance By SAP News Desk IBM and SAP AG have
expanded their global
strategic alliance to
enable retailers to
strategically transform
their businesses to meet
rapidly changing consumer
demands and global
competition. May. 12, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 5,359 | Sun's N1 Grid Technology
Available to SAP
Customers By SAP News Desk Deepening its global
alliance with SAP AG, Sun
Microsystems has
announced the Sun
Infrastructure Solution
for N1 Grid for SAP
Solutions. May. 10, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 4,166 | SAP Developer Network By SAP News Desk  Last fall, SAP launched
the SAP Developer Network
(SDN), a collaborative
online community of
developers, implementers,
and administrators who
work with SAP NetWeaver
and SAP xApps packaged
composite applications.
The response to the SDN
has been overwhelmingly
positive. Apr. 6, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 18,654 | SAP Users Choose BEA
WebLogic Server as
Preferred Application
Infrastructure Technology By SAP News Desk (July 1, 2003) - BEA
WebLogic Server has been
honored with the 2003 SAP
FAQ Members' Choice Top
25 Tools and Technologies
award. Sponsored by the
SAP FAQ, the peer-to-peer
technical support network
for SAP professionals,
the award honors the top
25 products that ha... Jan. 30, 2004 07:00 AM Reads: 3,798 | SAP Takes Sides in the
Java vs. Microsoft
Battle. By SAP News Desk Hasso Plattner made a
sweeping announcement
regarding the future of
Java at SAP's TechEd
Conference this morning
in Los Angeles. SAP has
selected Java as the
'open' programming
language of the future
and elevated Java to an
equal status with its own
proprietary, ... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 4,365 | The SAP Rises, Fueling
Web Services Boom By SAP News Desk (November 9, 2001) - IBM,
Microsoft, and BEA face a
new contender in the
fast-emerging Web
services market: German
software powerhouse SAP. Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 3,377 | Sun and SAP Establish
Joint Java Technology
Center By SAP News Desk (March 14, 2003) - Sun
Microsystems, Inc., has
announced the
establishment of a joint
Java Technology Center
located at the SAP AG
headquarters in Walldorf,
Germany. The Center's
charter is to assess,
promote and optimize Java
technology for adoption
in the SAP Ne... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 2,877 | New JSAP Toolkit for Java
Developers Enables Fast
Integration with SAP By SAP News Desk (April 7, 2003) - The new
JSAP development toolkit
from Gamma Enterprise
Technologies is designed
for Java programmers
using Borland's JBuilder
IDE who are seeking
easier methods to
interact with SAP
applications. JSAP
provides Java developers
a quicker and less
... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 2,507 | Accenture, BEA,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM,
Intel, Microsoft, and SAP
Form Web Services
Interoperability
Organization (WS-I) to
Speed By SAP News Desk (February 12, 2002) ? A
broad group of technology
leaders have formed the
Web Services
Interoperability (WS-I)
Organization
(www.ws-i.org). This
cross-industry initiative
is designed to accelerate
the development and
deployment of
interoperable Web
services acro... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 4,239 | SAP Says It's a Java,
ABAP, and .NET World By SAP News Desk (March 14, 2002) - German
software giant SAP took
advantage of the world
media interest in the
CeBIT technology fair in
Hannover, Germany, this
week to make an
announcement that shows
how carefully even giants
these days are choosing
to tread, so as to avoid
takin... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 3,511 | SAP Says It's a Java,
ABAP, and .NET World By SAP News Desk (March 18, 2002) - German
software giant SAP took
advantage of the world
media interest in the
CeBIT technology fair in
Hannover, Germany, last
week to make an
announcement that shows
how carefully even giants
these days are choosing
to tread, so as to avoid
takin... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 4,715 | New SAP xApps to Provide
New Business Processes By SAP News Desk (November 18, 2002) -
Last week at SAP's TechEd
2002 technical
conference, SAP announced
the introduction of two
new SAP xApps. The new
entries include xApp
Visual Information for
Plants (xVIp) and xApp
Product Definition (xPD). Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 3,667 |
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