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 Sun Microsystems announced that SAP has signed a multi-year agreement with Sun to provide Java Platform Standard Edition for Business (Java SE for Business) to its customers using the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. This will allow SAP customers to continue using Java SE 1.4.2 on bo...Jan. 17, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,552 |
 Gizmox announced that SAP saved more than $720,000 in development costs of its web-based global test management system using Visual WebGui's application development framework. SAP's NetWeaver UI Test Development team delivered their VWG-based web application in 9 months using only 2 de...Jan. 16, 2009 04:30 AM EST Reads: 2,643 |
 Further demonstrating continued evidence that the SAP ecosystem strategy delivers additional choices, value and flexibility for customers, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced a global reseller agreement that will enable SAP to resell the CA Wily Introscope(R) s...Nov. 12, 2008 08:00 PM EST Reads: 2,207 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider VMware named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in... Nov. 12, 2008 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,895 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider VMware named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in... Nov. 12, 2008 09:11 AM EST Reads: 1,895 |
CIOs don't really care about the cloud. They care about budgets, security and compliance. All the buzzwords in the world won't help innovative technology unless it maps directly onto CIO pain points. This session investigates what those pain points are, and where emerging products and ... Nov. 11, 2008 01:03 PM EST Reads: 2,267 |
According to AMI Partners, a leading SMB research firm, 62 percent of midsize businesses see customer relationship management as strategically important, yet only 14 percent have implemented it due to return on investment pressures and limited resources. Further, while 64 percent think... Nov. 11, 2008 09:41 AM EST Reads: 1,817 |
 NetSuite, Larry Ellison’s other company, the on-demand one usually seen as a foil for Salesforce.com and its CEO, ex-Ellison lieutenant Marc Benioff, has started directing its attention to Larry’s great hereditary enemy, SAP. It’s got a new migration program called Business ByNetSuite ...Nov. 7, 2008 12:43 PM EST Reads: 2,192 |
Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the me... Nov. 6, 2008 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,729 |
As a solution provider it is vitally important you don't get locked into a specific vendors solution. This couldn't be truer in the world of on-demand or cloud computing. The way Amazon works is vastly different from Google, and different from Flexiscale. So how do you utilise the stre... Oct. 31, 2008 10:29 AM EDT Reads: 1,943 |
 "The third quarter 2008 was SAP's 19th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in software and software-related service revenues at constant currencies. This was an achievement in a period where the global financial crisis had a significant impact on customer decisions towards quart...Oct. 27, 2008 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,481 |
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service model of early cloud computing providers has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, it should enhance the alignment ... Oct. 25, 2008 03:47 PM EDT Reads: 2,155 |
 While manufacturing principles have brought higher-quality products to a wide variety of markets in shorter production times and at reduced costs, the software industry has struggled in applying the lessons of mass assembly to new application development. Manufacturing assembly in the ...Oct. 17, 2008 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,516 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Mike Neil, General Manager of Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, will deliver the opening keynote at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmo...Oct. 17, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,327 |
 CEO Paul Otellini noted that $10.9 billion is the lower end of the seasonal pattern. The spread is meant to reflect the mixed message Intel is getting from its customers. Some say the macro-economic turbulent is having no impact on them, he said. Others are “worried.” Intel itself saw ...Oct. 15, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,735 |
 Mid-morning Monday SAP confessed that the bottom suddenly fell out of its sales in the last two weeks of September as the economy tanked and the company found it increasingly hard to sign contracts. CEO Henning Kagermann blamed liquidity and financing issues especially at mid-sized com...Oct. 15, 2008 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,844 |
 SOA in many ways reminds me of relational database technology. At it’s first inception, the concept of an RDBMS must have had a hard sell. Sure it made perfect sense to arrange the data and ensure that the relationships between the data were enforced but what was the business case tha...Oct. 11, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,539 |
AtTask has announced that a new version of its @task on-demand PPM software is now available. The new release includes several user-requested features and product enhancements, illustrating the company's commitment to its customers and meeting their project management software needs. C... Oct. 3, 2008 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,764 |
 Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com...Sep. 29, 2008 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 34,202 Replies: 2 |
 Watching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envyWatching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envy - so green in fact that it's gonna try taking VMware on b...Sep. 11, 2008 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,683 Replies: 1 |
CIO's face a common battle to balance the warring requirements of providing critical business value with maximum efficiency and cost savings. As they look to simplify their IT infrastructure, they must consider where it makes sense to draw a line in the sand and say 'Here's what my ven... Aug. 8, 2008 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,643 |
Improving business performance is a goal that cannot be realized without mutual cooperation and alignment between business and IT. In collaboration, IT focuses on architecture, system administration, scalability and performance, security and infrastructure, while business evaluates the... Aug. 8, 2008 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,733 |
Oracle has amended its billion-dollar suit against SAP claiming to have found the smoking gun implicating SAP CEO Henning Kagermann and SAP’s executive board in the wholesale theft and resale of Oracle’s IP by SAP support subsidiary TomorrowNow (SAP TN). Aug. 1, 2008 11:43 AM EDT Reads: 1,212 |
Olivetti has chosen to adopt services from Crossgate for EDI integration of its partners. With revenues in 2007 amounting to 408 million euro, Olivetti operates in the home and office products, in specialized applications for the banking and retail industries, and in IT automation syst... Jul. 24, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,111 |
 SAP said Monday that it was going to close down its TomorrowNow operation, the reason Oracle is suing SAP, claiming TM hacked into its site and stole its proprietary support information. SAP bought the PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Siebel service start-up in February of 2005 to harry Oracle's ...Jul. 24, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,765 |
AmberPoint announced that it has joined the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, where it will work with SAP to provide best practices for integrating its service-oriented architecture (SOA) runtime governance solutions with SAP enterprise services. AmberPoint intends to work with the SAP Co-Innovat... Jul. 18, 2008 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,579 |
Esker announced that it has signed a USD$1M enterprise agreement to implement Esker DeliveryWare for a Fortune 50 electronics manufacturer, enabling the company to automate the delivery of sales order documents into its SAP system. Jul. 18, 2008 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,783 |
Axon announced it has signed a co-development agreement with SAP for the integration of a new maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business solution with the SAP ERP application for aviation and aerospace organizations. The new MRO industry solution, called iMRO, is intended to impro... Jul. 18, 2008 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,213 |
SAP announced the opening of a second SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Ohtemachi, Tokyo, Japan. Joining the co-innovation lab, located in Palo Alto, California, the addition further broadens efforts by SAP to work with software solution partners, technology partners, service partners and custo... Jul. 18, 2008 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,381 |
EDS has announced the adoption of the Run SAP methodology for use in its application management services and hosting operations. Through this adoption, EDS also plans to incorporate the methodology into its consulting practice, where it will leverage its expertise with SAP applications... Jul. 14, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,640 |
Axon today announced strong customer momentum for the SAP for Utilities solutions in the utilities mid-market as Mobile Gas Service Corporation, City of Dallas, and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) join the more than 1,100 global utilities customers using SAP software solutions. The... Jul. 8, 2008 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,671 |
SAP announced the appointment of José Duarte as president and CEO of the company's operations in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), and Rodolpho Cardenuto as president and CEO of SAP Latin America. The new leaders assume their roles as Erwin Gunst, formerly president of SAP EMEA, and... Jul. 8, 2008 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,268 |
SAP announced a historic landmark in its product release strategy: The latest release of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, SAP ERP, has been selected or installed by more than 10,000 customers, including Bank of America, Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem, and Kr... Jul. 8, 2008 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,261 |
'Our number-one ranking in IDC's annual BI tools report is great validation of our ability to execute on new products and technologies that optimize business performance,' said Marge Breya, general manager and executive vice president, Business Intelligence Platform, Business Objects, ... Jul. 8, 2008 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,548 Replies: 1 |
 To no one's particular surprise, Oracle has claimed that it suffered hundreds of millions, if not 'at least' a billion dollars worth of damages because of SAP and the IP hacking theft of its TomorrowNow PeopleSoft/JD Edwards customer support subsidiary.Jul. 6, 2008 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,774 |
 Salesforce.com, which has already linked its CRM software to Google Apps and integrated AdWords tracking into its platform, is deploying a free new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs so third-party developers can interact with data in Google services. The toolkit is supposed to bri...Jun. 24, 2008 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,870 Replies: 1 |
SAP Integration and Certification Centers (ICC) have granted Datalogic Mobile SAP Certified Integration status. Therefore, the company from Bologna is now a SAP certified partner, guaranteeing logistics and warehousing solutions that provide compatibility with SAP. SAP delivers product... Jun. 19, 2008 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,939 |
SAP announced its intent to acquire Visiprise. With the addition of Visiprise, SAP will deliver on its 'Perfect Plant' strategy to bring together core SAP solutions with the software, hardware and services offerings of ecosystem partners to drive innovation for discrete manufacturers. ... Jun. 19, 2008 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,191 |
SAP announced that Kabel BW has selected the latest version of the SAP Customer Relationship Management application, SAP CRM 2007, to strengthen its connection to customers and build its foundation for future growth. The company, which serves more than 2.3 million subscribers, also pla... Jun. 18, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,690 |
Novell announced it has received an SAP Pinnacle Award in the category 'Technology: Co-Innovation for Core Business,' recognizing Novell as an SAP partner who has made significant contributions to SAP's customer-focused ecosystem. Novell was honored specifically for work with SAP on SU... Jun. 11, 2008 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,286 |
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