Challenges await new head of SAP user group
The Americas' SAP Users' Group announced its new CEO on Tuesday, nearly one year after parting ways with its previous chief.
Measuring carbon impact: IT's next Sarbanes-Oxley
New environmental regulations coming into favor in the United States, Europe and soon in Canada as well will require many companies to be able to measure the environmental impact and carbon emissions contributed by their business and their product. That will require technology, and SAP sees opportunity for the IT industry and the channel around measuring sustainability.
Novell, SAP bring together security, compliance wares
Novell is integrating its security and identity software with governance, risk and compliance wares from SAP.
SAP, HP to deepen ties around BI
SAP and its long-time partner Hewlett-Packard will announce plans next week to more closely link their technologies for BI (business intelligence) and data warehousing.
Acquire Me! Oracle's and SAP's Next Likely Targets
A new 451 Group report serves up some tasty offerings to feed a possible acquisition binge by the enterprise software supervendors. Oracle's Larry Ellison is preparing to throw a pie at IBM: The only question is who will be the whipped cream.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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