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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- SAP Targets High-end Customers with SMB Offering
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- Blog posts 2007-10-02
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- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
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- 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
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- White papers 2007-07-01
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- Blog posts 2007-06-05
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- Blog posts 2007-04-25
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- 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
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- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Mapping the enterprise CRM landscape
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- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Parsing SAP's quest to add 60,000 customers by 2010
- Nick Carr stirred up the Enterprise Irregulars with his post on SAP and SaaS over the weekend. It spurred a lot of discussion about just how serious SAP is about the on demand, software-as-a-service model and how the new SAP A1S solution, which is due around year end, fits into...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- HP Integrity Server and HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000) Best Practices for MySAP ERP - Windows and Oracle White Paper
- The HP StorageWorks Customer Focused Testing Team put together a medium-sized enterprise system using the mySAP ERP 2004 application with an Oracle database on four rx4640 servers and an EVA8000 storage array. SAP provided custom programs based on the ABAP programming language that simulated CRM mobile load on the backend...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Building the Dynamic Datacenter: Flex Frame for mySAP Business Suite
- This paper presents the results of a recent demand-side, customer-based study, in which customers were questioned with respect to their use of the Fujitsu Siemens Computers FlexFrame solutions for mySAP. IDC looks at how customers are using infrastructure to gain competitive advantage. The paper draws on the experiences of Fujitsu...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- HP Integrity Server and HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000) Best Practices for mySAP ERP
- HP servers, software, and storage form a solid triad on which to base SAP solutions. Servers and storage provide speed and reliability while software enables management and monitoring ease, facilitating troubleshooting. This is the first in a series of papers related to SAP solutions utilizing HP storage and servers sized...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- IPO candidate NetSuite fires a shot at SAP
- NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson has joined his former Oracle colleague and on demand software adherent, salesforce.com Marc Benioff, in predicting the failure of SAP to penetrate the SMB market. In his note to company staff see below, Nelson boasts, "If they are lucky, it will take SAP at least...
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
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- Case studies 2007-01-01
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