<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from SAP DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from SAP DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>SAP DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:49:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from SAP DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/153/sap-mag-logo-145.jpg</url><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Is Virtualization a Feature or a Platform?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/552014.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/552014.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/552014_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When it comes to defining the role of virtualization, there are two camps: 1) Virtualization is a platform - represented by VMware; 2) Virtualization is a feature - represented by Parallels, Microsoft, Citrix, IBM, SUN, Novell, Oracle.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA World Editorial: Defining Terms</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/557496.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/557496.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/557496_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It seems like not a day goes by lately in which some new story of malfeasance in office doesn't come out - whether it's lying under oath, using the services of a call girl, or spying on other officials in the government in order to further a personal agenda. Clearly, our elected officials don't have a clue about the meaning of governance.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization and Cloud Pumping, Microsoft, Dell, HP and Google</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/540702.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/540702.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/540702_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Rumor has it that Salesforce.com, that CRM paean to cloud computing, is going to start selling Gmail and Google Docs integrated into its system. The pair cut a deal nine months ago for Saleforce to include Adwords in its applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Virtualization Makes Solaris Apps SaaSy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/552195.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/552195.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/552195_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sun is now offering a new virtualization service that will let ISVs run their Solaris apps in a multi-tenant on-demand environment without having to rewrite any code. The trick is in Solaris' Containers virtualization and its xVM widgetry. The new Solaris On Demand program will provide third-party hosting complements of NaviSite, AT&T USi Communications and NTT Europe Online.]]></description></item><item><title>SCO &amp; Novell in Court</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/558171.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/558171.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/558171_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SCO and Novell have been in court this week trying to figure out how much SCO is supposed to owe Novell in royalties for its attempt to tax Linux. This is the money that SCO claims it doesn't owe Novell at all because Novell signed away its source code rights and can only claim royalties on binaries.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Flubs SaaS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/558005.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/558005.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/558005_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SAP has run into a nasty little rollout problem with its new on-demand Business ByDesign widgetry, the stuff that's critical to its future growth and competes with, oh, say, Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Microsoft. Seems ByDesign isn't properly automated and so SAP's grand plan to get 10,000 small to mid-sized companies up and running on the stuff and generate $1 billion in revenue by 2010 has fallen by the wayside.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Reports Strong Growth in Software and Software Related Service Revenues</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/557002.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/557002.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/557002_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 approximately $37.4 billion in software and software related service revenues as defined by the Company based on industry analyst research, was 32.6% for the four-quarter period ended March 31, 2008 compared to 31.9% for the four-quarter period ended December 31, 2007, and 28.2% for the four-quarter period ended March 31, 2007, representing a year-over-year share gain of 7.6 percentage points, of which approximately 4 percentage points came from organic growth. All prior period share numbers have been adjusted to reflect the acquisition of Business Objects.]]></description></item><item><title>Bank of America Selects SAP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/556349.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/556349.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/556349_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 comprehensive global operating system to improve efficiency and support continued growth.]]></description></item><item><title>Alti and SAPBUREAU Announce Joint Venture to Launch AltiSAP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/556348.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/556348.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/556348_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 services, particularly around Business Intelligence (BI) and NetWeaver (SAP's strong technology platform), and to propagate the adoption of SAP enterprise software in medium-sized enterprises.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Reports Poor First Quarter; Profits Slump 22%</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/555736.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/555736.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/555736_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['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 reported from Berlin, Germany, that its net profit in the January-March Q1 period fell 22%.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Partners with Crossgate to Provided E-Invoicing Services</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/549507.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/549507.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/549507_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 environment. In today's fast-paced global economy, companies are finding it difficult to turn sales into cash. Manually sending paper invoices is slow and expensive, and processes are not integrated among business partners. Audits and other regulatory compliance efforts are often time-consuming and difficult.]]></description></item><item><title>Conformia Development Operations Management Named SAP-Endorsed Business Solution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/525241.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/525241.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/525241_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 marks the culmination of an extensive solution specification, development and testing process by SAP. As a result, Conformia's solution is now integrated with SAP solutions at the platform, application and business scenario levels. The solution builds a bridge between the development and manufacturing functions of product operations in regulated process industries such as life sciences and beverage alcohol.]]></description></item><item><title>Novell and SAP Extend Partnership</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/522742.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/522742.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/522742_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title>Nationwide Selects SAP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/522256.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/522256.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/522256_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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, Nationwide will become the first financial services provider in the UK to adopt the newest version of SAP for Banking, which it will use to service its growing banking, savings and mortgage business. As part of the program, named Voyager, Nationwide will modernize its technology with an integrated, next-generation technology platform, streamlining its core processes while supporting business growth and reducing costs.]]></description></item><item><title>Riverbed Steelhead Appliance Achieves SAP Certified Integration</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/520983.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/520983.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/520983_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 NetWeaver platform and an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). Enterprise SOA enables customers to create a highly-flexible, open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. With SAP's certification of integration of the Riverbed Steelhead appliance, customers can be assured of interoperability within SAP application-based landscapes.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Fields Linux Appliance</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/514508.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/514508.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/514508_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SAP is going into the Linux appliance business. It expects its OEM friends and IHVs to sell a quad Xeon-based server that Intel's put together for it that's got SUSE and SAP's own MaxDB database and Business All-in-One software pre-installed.]]></description></item><item><title>Esker DeliveryWare 4.0 Achieves SAP Certified Integration for SAP&apos;s New Enterprise Services-Based Interface - enterprise SOA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/506432.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/506432.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/506432_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 the few vendors to complete certification for this new interface, demonstrating and broadening its support of its Document Process Automation solutions for customers using SAP solutions worldwide.]]></description></item><item><title>Siemens AG Chooses Security Weaver to Handle Global SoD SAP Compliance Reporting</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/506505.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/506505.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/506505_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title>HCL Technologies Announces Global Services Partnership With SAP to Deliver Joint Business Value Through Customer Centric Ecosystem</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/505116.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/505116.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/505116_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 partnership with SAP is aimed at enabling companies of all sizes to access the business benefits of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA ) and draws upon HCL's strengths in emerging geographies, strong domain experience, risk taking and service innovation capabilities. This announcement is a milestone in a growing relationship between the two organizations, which further evidences their close links.]]></description></item><item><title>Capgemini Positioned In Leaders Quadrant Among SAP Implementation Providers By Independent Research Firm</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/503513.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/503513.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/503513_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Capgemini was ranked in the 'Leaders' category among SAP implementation providers by Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research firm.]]></description></item><item><title>Status on Newly Released SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/501032.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/501032.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/501032_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Cúram Software announced its market-leading Cúram Business Application Suite 5.0 has achieved 'Powered by SAP NetWeaver' certification status. Endorsed by SAP in 2007, the Cúram Business Application Suite, which is Cúram Software's Social Enterprise Management (SEM) solution, provides client-centric business processes and outcomes-driven, integrated service delivery on the newly released SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE) offering Release 7.1. Cúram Software is pleased its Cúram Business Application Suite has achieved Powered by SAP NetWeaver status, which leverages the open-standard Java platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5), for enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA)-based composition and deployment. SAP NetWeaver 7.1 CE provides a complete standards-based platform and runtime environment for developing, deploying and efficiently managing composite applications using enterprise SOA.]]></description></item><item><title>Camstar Announces Broader Manufacturing Intelligence Solution for SAP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/497529.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/497529.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/497529_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 manufacturing operations with real-time KPIs delivered from Camstar Manufacturing, the leading Manufacturing Execution System in the Medical Device industry.]]></description></item><item><title>Asigra Achieves Certified for SAP NetWeaver Status</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/493410.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/493410.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/493410_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 scenario BC-BRI HPUX 64 7.0 on Oracle 10g databases. Asigra's powerful agentless backup and recovery solution is used in multi-national enterprise environments for centralized control and assurance of business continuity and certification with SAP NetWeaver 7.0 expands interoperability.]]></description></item><item><title>Florida Power &amp; Light Generates Growth With SAP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/493306.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/493306.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/493306_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 platform to support the company's growth strategy. Expanding on its existing SAP footprint in financials, supply chain and human resources, FPL will standardize on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to more quickly and easily integrate new systems as its business continues to expand.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Backs Postgres House Right After MySQL Buy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/490761.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/490761.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/490761_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The ink was still drying on Sun's billion-dollar deal to buy the webby, low-end open source database house MySQL when Sun turned around and put money in the high-end open source Postgres company Greenplum, evidently what Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz meant last week when he said 'and we ain't finished yet.' Schwartz did say that Sun would continue to invest in Postgres, Oracle and JavaDB last week when Sun's MySQL buy was announced. Looks like we should have taken him literally. Greenplum also attracted SAP, which has no track record of open source investments, as another strategic investor - and SAP is fresh from closing its acquisition of Business Objects, the Franco-American BI concern.]]></description></item><item><title>Industry Moves: SAP Makes Two Major Appointments</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/490112.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/490112.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/490112_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 executive vice president, Global Small and Midsize Enterprise (SME) Marketing.]]></description></item><item><title>Attenda Is Re-certified as SAP Hosting Partner</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/487749.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/487749.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/487749_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 SAP's stringent quality parameters, ensuring that its hosted solutions are operated effectively.]]></description></item><item><title>Neoris Named a Strong Performer in SAP Implementation Services by Independent Research Firm</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/487557.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/487557.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/487557_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 this report, which evaluated 16 leading SAP implementation providers based on 108 criteria including their current product offering, strategy and overall market presence.]]></description></item><item><title>Old Oracle Mafia to Run Salesforce Unit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/484599.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/484599.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/484599_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com has hired Polly Sumner, one of the old Oracle mafia, as president, platform, alliances and services, responsible for the technology and marketing of the company's Force.com platform. Sumner was recently president of global services for Telcordia, the telecoms outfit, and from 1987-1999 worked at Oracle with Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. Force.com lets third parties access Salesforce's infrastructure and develop software that Salesforce hosts.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Gets Behind VMware Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/475433.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/475433.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/475433_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SAP is going to support VMware ESX Server in 64-bit Windows and Linux production environments. The German software maker, many of whose customers have been using VMware for a while now anyway, said Wednesday that it had certified hardware from Dell, Fujitsu, HP and IBM, something SAP's rival Oracle doesn't do because it's also competing with VMware. VMware says it's been working for 'quarters' on the certification project with SAP, ascribing the time it took to SAP's finicky testing of its mission-critical business apps. Anyway, VMware Infrastructure is the only virtualization platform that supports SAP on both Windows and Linux on industry-standard boxes - particularly Windows since there's little SAP on Linux, the company said.]]></description></item><item><title>The Newfangled Holy Grail of SaaS Has Come to OpenOffice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/478837.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/478837.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/478837_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The newfangled Holy Grail of software-as-a-service has come to OpenOffice, the freebie challenger of Microsoft Office sent into the wild years ago by Sun Microsystems to wreak what havoc it could. Ulteo, the outfit started by Mandrakesoft, now Mandriva, founder Gaël Duval last year after Mandriva fired him over strategic differences, has webified OpenOffice 2.3. Its new software-as-a-service, called the Ulteo Online Desktop and days into an open beta, is supposed to make it unnecessary to install or update OpenOffice on a client PC, the first of apparently other desktop applications and data management that Ulteo intends to take into the cloud.    It is also supposed to let users collaborate, another de rigeur facility, by invitation in real-time.]]></description></item><item><title>Beam Global Leads Spirits Industry with Single Instance of SAP Achievement</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/478919.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/478919.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/478919_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 across its assets in the U.S. and Europe, helping the company to deliver on its global growth strategy.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Community Network Recognition Program To Launch</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/467003.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/467003.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/467003_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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, such as blog posts, articles, code samples, tutorials, videos or forum posts. Now comes a new initiative.]]></description></item><item><title>India Drives Unprecedented Growth for SAP Ecosystem</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/470737.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/470737.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/470737_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 India as a driving force in the SAP ecosystem. In Bangalore, SAP will welcome more than 5,000 customers and partners to discuss how to better harness the power and flexibility of enterprise SOA to transform existing business processes. The announcement was made at SAP TechEd '07 Bangalore, being held in Bangalore, India from November 28-30.]]></description></item><item><title>Juniper Networks WX and DX Application Acceleration Platforms Achieve SAP Certified Integration</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/470739.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/470739.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/470739_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 architecture (enterprise SOA) can achieve improved performance optimization, security and access reliability when integrating the Juniper Networks DX 5.3 load balancing and application acceleration platform in data centers, and improved performance optimization when integrating the Juniper Networks WX 5.5 application acceleration platform into their SAP solution-based WAN environments.]]></description></item><item><title>Visual Numerics to Sell SAP NetWeaver</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/475447.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/475447.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/475447_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 unstructured data processing component of SAP NetWeaver - providing the TREX engine with functions for data analytics such as outlier detection, dependency analysis and forecasting. SAP applications that use the TREX engine will benefit from this new embedded functionality.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Targets iPhone with Its Web 2.0 Move</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/472217.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/472217.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/472217_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 and that businesspeople prefer the iPhone to the Blackberry, Treo or Microsoft-based devices. The widgetry, which uses a drag-and-drop interface adapted from Google's iGoogle, is due out later this month. SAP will do the hosting. CRM 2007 also runs on more conventional devices like PCs.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP&apos;s TomorrowNow Looking Like Yesterday&apos;s Toast</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/464967.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/464967.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/464967_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The CEO and other unidentified, unnumbered senior managers of TomorrowNow - the third-party SAP support subsidiary that Oracle has accused of hacking into its systems and lifting its proprietary software and IP wholesale in a rip snorting federal suit currently pending against SAP, SAP America and TomorrowNow - have resigned and SAP says it may sell the unit. SAP said late Monday that TomorrowNow CEO Andrew Nelson and several people on his management team 'have chosen to resign.']]></description></item><item><title>The SAP World is ... Virtual</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/458306.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/458306.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/458306_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 session will show you in detail how SAP is using virtualization in its datacenters today, what is really working and what is not, what the pain points are, how SAP solutions behave in a virtualized environment with products offered by partners like VMWare, and which guidelines customers should look at.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Contributes to Eclipse</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/453232.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/453232.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/453232_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 optimize memory usage without having to shut down their servers and interrupt critical business processes. Oh, yeah, and separately the Eclipse Foundation has released its Rich AJAX Platform, RAP 1.0.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Presents at Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/446550.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/446550.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/446550_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 session will show you in detail how SAP is using virtualization in its datacenters today.]]></description></item><item><title>How Unlike SAP, With Its Talk of Doing Only &quot;Tuck-in&quot; Acquisitions and Organic Growth</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/443133.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/443133.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/443133_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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, to be paid for in cash, two-thirds of it borrowed cash. How unlike SAP, with its talk of doing only 'tuck-in' acquisitions and organic growth. It immediately paid for the move, its single largest acquisition ever, by losing over 5% off its share price in New York because Business Objects' preliminary third-quarter results were way below expectations: the promise of earning only 36 cents-39 cents on $366 million-$370 million when Wall Street was counting on 51 cents on $385 million. It won't turn accretive for SAP until 2009 - at least on a GAAP basis.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP To Buy Business Objects For $6.8BN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/440459.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/440459.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/440459_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP To Offer Individual Developer Licenses for SAP NetWeaver</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/438657.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/438657.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/438657_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title>MySQL AB to Optimize Its Open Source Database for SAP NetWeaver</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/438677.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/438677.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/438677_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 support under one organization.]]></description></item><item><title>An SOA On-Demand Solution from SAP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/432478.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/432478.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/432478_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 cutting total cost of ownership (TCO) - SAP Business ByDesign delivers an on-demand software solution with built-in service and support. It offers a personalized trial for invited customers to explore, evaluate and experience the solution.]]></description></item><item><title>Who Will Acquire Business Objects: SAP, IBM, or Oracle?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/429627.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/429627.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/429627_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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/Analytics market, rose strongly in trading on the Paris exchange. Le Figaro's sources were not named, but it was enough to send shares up over 4%.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle vs SAP: IP Theft Allegation Case To Go To Speedy Mediation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/422640.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/422640.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/422640_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 for the Northern District of California yesterday.]]></description></item><item><title>In 2-5 Years, SAP and Oracle Will Upgrade ERP Applications to Web 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/421718.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/421718.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/421718_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 industry-leading enterprises with high-volume e-commerce Web sites to understand and address performance validation issues for AJAX application testing, e.g., performance testing for multiple http calls per page refresh; testing for rich client-like user interactions; security testing; and dealing with the asynchronous nature of client/server communications and AJAX as the front end for SOA/composite applications. What's worked and what hasn't?]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Confesses to Petty Theft, Not Industrial Espionage</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sap.sys-con.com/read/402003.htm</guid><link>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/402003.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://sap.sys-con.com/read/402003_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 made the admission in court papers filed right before the Fourth of July holiday last week and in conference calls between SAP CEO Henning Kagerman and the press.]]></description></item></channel></rss>