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Seeing into the future with IT
Insight newsmaker Chakib Bouhdary, SAP chief value officer, on how the economic downturn is changing CEOs' decisions and technology choices in business today.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Leadership, SAP AG, Asia, Chinese company, CEO, China, finance, acquisition, Brazil
Why SOA is the 'perestroika of IT'
Insight newsmaker Independent middleware can help businesses escape the grip of 'monopolistic' software makers, and that will help the SOA provider grow, says Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich.
Tags: Innovation, Business applications, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Mainframe, SAP AG, SOA, Business, Software AG, BPM
SaaS may not live up to 'recession-proof' tag
Insight commentary In theory, software-as-a-service vendors such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite should thrive in a downturn, but in practice things may prove a little tougher.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, SuccessFactors Inc., ERP, Amazon.com Inc., Facebook, revenue, analyst, Software-as-a-service
Oracle amends SAP TomorrowNow suit
News Oracle broadens allegations against rival SAP and third-party outsourcing maintenance and support company TomorrowNow.
Tags: Lawsuits, Legal, Software, Business applications, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, intellectual property, PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., shareholder
Sad saga of GSIS and IBM
Blogs The pitiful battle between pension firm GSIS and tech giant IBM is nothing short of tragic. But, it's something that c...
A '30-year headstart' connecting people
Insight newsmaker SAP's Asia-Pacific and Japan CEO on attracting talent and why the ERP giant can stand unfazed in light of new Web 2.0 entrants to the market.
Tags: Recruiting, Professional Development, Personnel management, Web 2.0, SAP AG, Google Inc., India, Business Process, Japan, CEO
Google Wave ready for wider testing
News Google's Internet communications concept project is ready for wider use, which will test the stability and scalability of one of the company's most important projects.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Web 2.0, SAP AG, Web Application, Environment, I/O, IM, collaboration, Google Apps, Web Developer
How will you use Google Wave?
News Google's Wave collaboration platform is already attracting attention from businesses, according to one of the key architects of the service.
Tags: Web 2.0, Google Inc., SAP AG, TechEd, software, Web 2.0, Vienna, IM, decision-making, collaboration
US-CERT warns of SAP vulnerability
News The flaw in the graphical user interface for SAP ERP, reported by U.S.-CERT, has been labeled "highly critical" by Secunia.
Tags: Business applications, Security, SAP AG, GUI, ActiveX Control, Vulnerability, IT Professional, ERP, Flaw, Secunia
RIM reveals BlackBerry roadmap
News Mobile company lays out business plans for Blackberry with "prosumers" in its sight.
Tags: Business plans, Mobile, BlackBerry, Customer resource management (CRM), RIM BlackBerry, SAP AG, Small And Medium Enterprise, Research In Motion Ltd., phone, CIO
All SAP apps to be native on BlackBerry
News RIM and SAP have announced a 'co-innovation' partnership that will see all the latter's apps made natively available on the BlackBerry, starting with CRM.
Tags: BlackBerry, Customer resource management (CRM), RIM BlackBerry, SAP AG, Security, Mobile, Research In Motion Ltd., phone, software, partnership
SAP: Days of the database are numbered
News Demand for cloud computing and faster access to data will lead to a future where companies don't need a database, says top SAP executive.
Tags: Databases, Cloud computing, Data Management, Database, SAP AG, Berlin, Vienna, Cloud computing, data management, top executive
Oracle's Q1: 'We grew faster than SAP'
News Oracle misses analysts' earnings and revenue estimates for the first quarter, but pointed to worldwide growth in its applications business that surpassed competitor SAP.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), SAP AG, Sun Microsystems Inc., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Earnings, data warehouse, Wall Street, Oracle Corp., analyst, acquisition
BI paves the way for ERP
News Business intelligence adoption provides SAP an inroad to sell its main enterprise resource planning product to companies in Asia-Pacific region, says executive.
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Data warehousing/business intelligence, SAP AG, Asia, Business Objects, Asia-Pacific, Gartner Inc., ERP, Japan, CIO
SAP reveals SaaS makeover
News Feature Pack 2.0, which enhances integration of CRM tools with processes such as automated billing and project profitability, aims to add lustre to Business ByDesign.
Tags: Business applications, SAP AG, Tool, business software, payment, QA, decision-making, billing, software-as-a-service
