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- Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts
- The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and automating the planning and tracking of financial transactions from end to end...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Might the SAP Mentors inherit the earth?
- Rather than attending last week's SAP TechEd in Berlin as a 'pure' blogger, I was also wearing my SAP Mentor hat. Unlike SAPPHIRE, where the exec team gets down and dirty with the press, analyst and blogger contingent from the business perspective, TechEd is all about the 'make guys.'...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- SAP Targets High-end Customers with SMB Offering
- SAP's Business ByDesign has always suffered from a perception problem: SAP has said pretty much categorically that it will be only sold into the SMB market. This position has been stuck to steadfastly, despite lots of evidence that high-end customers would love to have some or all of BBD's functionality...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Integrating SAND-DNA Software and Network Appliance Storage
- Corporations deploying SAP solutions today have seen exponential growth in data volume. The addition of multiple mySAP Business Suite components and more stringent regulatory requirements for data retention has put a heavy burden on systems. Data warehouse environments like SAP Business Intelligence are growing rapidly and being challenged to maintain...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- KDN Municipal IT Service Providers in North Rhine-Westphalia Centralize SAP Services
- KDN-Dachverband kommunaler IT-Dienstleister needed Implementation of a new SAP solution i.e. system environment based on SAP NetWeaver technology and mySAP ERP 2005 that permits non-disruptive deployment of additional SAP functionality at any time, business continuity i.e. ongoing availability of SAP services for KDN customers and maximum data security i.e. catastrophe-resistant...
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- SAP and TIBCO: a marriage to make in hell?
- 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
- This paper provides customers and partners with the best practices for deploying IBM System Storage N series in support of mySAP Business Suite solutions running in a UNIX and NFS environment using an Oracle database. Overall better storage availability and management as well as reliable and efficient business continuance and...
- White papers 2007-10-03
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign
- Peter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...
- 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
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its BestAbsolutely Ridiculous - A1S = Way2LateThis advertisement for SAP is ridiculous in its lack of objectivity. Even people inside of SAP are not this bullish (i.e. are more balanced in their analysis) How many years has A1s been under...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite's IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software
- A response from SAP in the Oracle vs. SAP lawsuit and NetSuite files for an IPO. Two seemingly disconnected events trickled down through the technosphere during 4th of July week, and, having been blissfully disconnected myself for much of the week, I came back with a mission to try to...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Software business model challenged by SaaS, says Plattner
- Software business model challenged by SaaS, says PlattnerIs it or isnt it?Key questions (which we'd love for you to get clear answers from SAP on) are:-Is A1s actually a true multi-tenant not mega tenant or isolated tenant SaaS solution? If its not or will not be operated as such,...
- 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
- A Nucleus Research report about how Oracle and SAP fare among small and mid-sized enterprises has sparked a dust-up between the two--again. In a survey, Nucleus Research finds that customers at smaller companies generally favor Oracle. The bottom line: Only 41 percent of SAP SMB customers interviewed got a positive...
- 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
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...
- 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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