http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/223/all xx http://www.itworld.com/software/81715/challenges-await-head-new-sap-user-group The Americas' SAP Users' Group announced its new CEO on Tuesday, nearly one year after parting ways with its previous chief. http://www.itworld.com/software/81715/challenges-await-head-new-sap-user-group#comments Business Career IT management/strategy Software News SAP Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:05:56 -0400 ITworld staff 81715 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/green-it/82072/measuring-carbon-impact-its-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. http://www.itworld.com/green-it/82072/measuring-carbon-impact-its-next-sarbanes-oxley#comments Channel Green IT Feature environment EPA SAP Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:53:24 -0400 ITworld staff 82072 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/80889/novell-sap-bring-together-security-compliance-wares Novell is integrating its security and identity software with governance, risk and compliance wares from SAP. http://www.itworld.com/software/80889/novell-sap-bring-together-security-compliance-wares#comments Networking Security Software News compliance governance Novell SAP Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:13:32 -0400 ITworld staff 80889 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/80518/sap-hp-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. http://www.itworld.com/software/80518/sap-hp-deepen-ties-around-bi#comments Business intelligence Hardware Software News BI data warehousing HP SAP Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:18:34 -0400 ITworld staff 80518 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/78526/acquire-me-oracles-and-saps-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. http://www.itworld.com/software/78526/acquire-me-oracles-and-saps-next-likely-targets#comments Business Software Feature m&a Oracle SAP Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:34 -0400 ITworld staff 78526 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/76898/dirty-vendor-tricks 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. http://www.itworld.com/software/76898/dirty-vendor-tricks#comments IT management/strategy Software Feature Microsoft SAP VMware Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:58:55 -0400 ITworld staff 76898 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/70203/sap-benchmarking-program-begins-tracking-first-kpis SAP users have begun measuring the performance of key aspects of their ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems as part of a benchmarking process agreed to with user groups. In April, SAP agreed to delay an increase in the cost of its Enterprise Support service, and to make future increases conditional on meeting certain targets for performance and customer satisfaction. http://www.itworld.com/software/70203/sap-benchmarking-program-begins-tracking-first-kpis#comments IT management/strategy Software News Benchmarking SAP Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:00:15 -0400 ITworld staff 70203 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/saas/69691/jive-sap-partner-social-bi SAP and enterprise social-networking vendor Jive said Tuesday they have formed an agreement that will see SAP's BusinessObjects BI OnDemand software integrated with Jive's community and collaboration platform. http://www.itworld.com/saas/69691/jive-sap-partner-social-bi#comments Business intelligence SaaS News collaboration enterprise 2.0 Jive Software SAP Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:22:18 -0400 ITworld staff 69691 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/69580/sap-cto-innovation-and-cloud-computing As the CTO of SAP, Vishal Sikka's job is to figure out what SAP's future applications will look, feel and act like for its customers. He does that by experimenting with untested, emerging technologies; innovating with his team and co-innovating with customers and partners; and developing new ways to think about enterprise architecture and governance mechanisms. http://www.itworld.com/software/69580/sap-cto-innovation-and-cloud-computing#comments SaaS Software Interview cloud computing ERP SAP Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:47:17 -0400 ITworld staff 69580 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/saas/69147/sap-saas-u-turn In a major U-turn, SAP is expanding its "Large Enterprise on Demand" offering, to allow end user organizations to integrate SAP's online offerings with their core, on-premises or hosted ERP platforms. http://www.itworld.com/saas/69147/sap-saas-u-turn#comments CRM SaaS News ERP SAP Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:07:29 -0400 ITworld staff 69147 at http://www.itworld.com