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  • SAP's not-so-secret weapon: Its own CIO

    Posted December 14, 2010 - 3:06 pm

    Oliver Bussmann, now a year into his tenure as CIO for SAP, has re-invented and raised the profile of the ERP vendor's CIO role. One key: Sharing with customers his ongoing experiences with a huge SAP environment.

  • SAP's co-CEOs: Are two heads better than one?

    Posted November 23, 2010 - 2:35 pm

    Nearly a year into their tenure as co-CEOs of SAP, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe are saying all the right things and getting good marks from industry analysts--proving that a dual-CEO model is not a recipe for disaster. But the duo still faces significant challenges.

  • Oracle vs. SAP: Battle of Fall 2010 Balance Sheets

    Posted October 28, 2010 - 3:34 pm

    A head-to-head examination of how the two software giants' revenues, executives and strategies fared during their most recent quarters.

  • Third-Party Software Maintenance: 5 Things to Know

    Posted August 31, 2010 - 12:30 pm

    Big savings are promised, but are there trade-offs to bypassing vendor support in lieu of third-party support providers like Rimini Street?

  • SAP Sapphire 2010: New Look, New Execs...A New SAP?

    Posted May 12, 2010 - 2:24 pm

    SAP took some hard body blows in 2009 but did not get knocked out. With new leadership, will it wow the user base at this year's annual gathering, or will there be more marketing talk than walk?

  • Measuring carbon impact: IT's next Sarbanes-Oxley

    Posted October 22, 2009 - 9:53 pm

    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.

  • Acquire Me! Oracle's and SAP's Next Likely Targets

    Posted September 23, 2009 - 1:35 pm

    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.

  • Dirty vendor tricks

    Posted September 8, 2009 - 8:58 am

    Enterprise software and service vendors are a tricky bunch. Like skilled magicians, they use sleight of hand and misdirection to pull cash from your company's coffers.

  • Could the recession be good for enterprise software?

    Posted February 19, 2009 - 3:50 pm

    The recession has companies worldwide scrambling to rein in technology costs with desperate vendors responding in turn, offering deep license discounts, providing low-cost financing and proclaiming ever more shrilly that their products in fact save customers money. But there is more than trench warfare going on, according to a range of observers. When the economy turns around, a number of changes, many that benefit users, will have come to the IT industry.

  • Oracle vs. SAP: Who Has the Better ERP Apps Strategy?

    Posted November 17, 2008 - 1:23 pm

    Forrester Research last stacked up the application strategies of ERP heavyweights SAP and Oracle in 2006. At the time, SAP's star, in their opinion, was shining much brighter than Oracle's. Much has changed since then. Now, as 2008 comes to a close, Forrester analysts John Rymer, Paul Hamerman and Ray Wang have done another comprehensive analysis of the fierce competitors' application strategies.

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    Quiz: The week in quotes

    Posted November 7, 2008 - 12:57 pm

    Who knows what's best for Microsoft? Who doesn't want to drive innovation with the parking brake on? When is years of deliberation not quite enough? Who broke down and admitted to learning something? Think you know? Take the quiz and prove it.

  • Inside one of SAP's smallest ERP success stories

    Posted September 29, 2008 - 10:25 am

    Artisan Hardwood Floors' purchase of SAP's BusinessOne ERP software in late 2007 wasn't anything that triggered a gushing press release from SAP's PR staff. It most likely didn't hit the radar screens of SAP CEO Henning Kagermann or CEO-in-waiting Leo Apotheker over in Walldorf, Germany. But it's a telling story, nevertheless, that starts with a "de facto" CIO and no IT staff, disparate systems, and almost no customer knowledge of SAP's ERP expertise.

  • Amid ERP skills shortage, customers look to SaaS choices

    Posted September 11, 2008 - 9:22 pm

    Due to an acute skills shortage in enterprise software circles that's hitting SMBs especially, a new and critical selection criterion has been added to the top of the mix: Availability of resources to help implement the SAP or Oracle software.

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    SAP skills shortage ultimately hurts company

    Posted June 18, 2008 - 10:52 am

    SAP executives knew they had a problem. By early 2007, after several years of quarter-over-quarter growth, senior decision-makers at the German software giant, including co-CEO Leo Apotheker, were hearing more and more about an alarming shortage of SAP talent in the marketplace.

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