SAP's brand name for a variety of its products. mySAP Business Suite includes modules for enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), product life cycle management (PLM), supplier relationship management (SRM) and supply chain management (SCM). See mySAP.com and SAP.
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- Blog posts 2008-10-20
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- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Integrating SAND-DNA Software and Network Appliance Storage
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- White papers 2008-01-01
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- Dana Gardner says that TIBCO must surely be in the firing line for an approach. I agree. Dana thinks Sun is the natural ally: Other vendors will be significantly impacted by the proposed merger as well. Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and TIBCO will face a tougher market. That’s because...
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- SAP on UNIX and Oracle With IBM System Storage N Series
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- White papers 2007-10-03
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign
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- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- SAP-as-a-Service: Will SMBs Bite?
- ZDNet blogging colleague Phil Wainewright has welcomed SAP to the ever more boisterous SaaS party. SAP's venture into SaaS may be its boldest move since MySAP.com. But are companies ready for such heavy-duty SaaS? That's because of the launch of SAP-as-a-Service this week. There's...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best
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- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite's IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software
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- Blog posts 2007-07-06
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- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- SAP on UNIX and Oracle With FCP and Network Appliance Storage: Best Practices
- This paper is intended to provide customers and partners with the best practices for deploying Network Appliance storage systems in support of mySAP Business Suite solutions running in a UNIX and FCP environment using an Oracle Database. Primary consideration is given to addressing the common storage infrastructure design, operation, and...
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Nucleus Research: Oracle beats SAP among small, mid-sized enterprises
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- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- SAP on the HP Integrity rx2660 Server: Deploy and Optimize SAP Resources in Real Time Based on Business Priorities
- In a world where business conditions can change in an instant, IT infrastructure has to be flexible. The success of enterprise and business depend on deploying solutions that maximize return, mitigate risk, improve performance, and increase agility. The HP Integrity rx2660 Server is an ideal platform that will help one...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader
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- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Is NetWeaver Finally Hitting Its Stride?
- SAP has bet a lot on NetWeaver, its platform-cum-SOA strategy, and has endured the slings and arrows of competitors belittling the fact that it didn’t reach universal adoption in the two-plus years since it was first announced. But it seems like data from ASUG, the US-based SAP user group,...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- MySAP fades into history
- At SAPs Sapphire, SAP laid MySAP to rest and resurrected it as SAP ERP 6.0. Its merely a name change and will have no implication for customers, said Philip Say, vice president of European marketing and sales. "MySAP was of dot.com era, and was an artifact of 2005, when the...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- SAP in the Post-Agassi Era
- Shai Agassi has resigned from SAP amidst a massive reorganization of the company. It’s in many ways a sad day for SAP, and, if you’re spinning the news from the perspective of SAP’s competitors, it may or may not be a great day to be lining up to eat SAP’s...
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Mapping the enterprise CRM landscape
- Forrester Research maps out the landscape in the enterprise CRM world in a report, "Enterprise CRM Suites, Q1 2007" ($995). Following is the executive summary:Forrester evaluated leading enterprise CRM suites vendors across 493 criteria and found that Oracles Siebel CRM and SAPs mySAP CRM are the clear Leaders. They offer...
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
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