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30-06-09: The SAP Help Ecosystem: A Paradigm in Crisis
A recent survey conducted by cumulusIQ, the pioneer of Knowledge as a Service (KaaS), discovered that SAP customers consider themselves to be paying too much for SAP help, often without sufficient ROI. The survey revealed that 47 percent of SAP customers believe that they are spending too much on SAP help. Of this 47 percent: 77 percent believe that SAP Help (SAP's official offering) is too expensive; 55 percent believe that consultants and system integrators charge too much for SAP help functions; 47 percent believe that it is too expensive to task internal resources to SAP help activities.
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29-06-09: NetSuite Takes It to SAP
NETSUITE is attacking rival SAP on its native German soil. San Mateo, Calif.-based NetSuite (ticker: N), a pioneer in on-demand business-management software, plans to announce early this week that it is launching financial-accounting services and other business applications designed for German companies and multinationals doing business there.
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29-06-09: SAP aims to hit key margin target by 2014-document
Germany's SAP has pencilled in 2014 as the year it aims to meet its long-standing target for an operating margin of 35 percent, according to an internal strategy document. The world's biggest maker of business management software also hopes to double software and software-related sales over the same five-year timeframe, the document showed.
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25-06-09: SAP to Stick to Software, Says CEO
SAP’s new CEO Leo Apotheker says the software giant will focus on its core software business, even as its rivals expand beyond their traditional boundaries. The latest trend in the tech industry—at least among its biggest companies—is to offer products and services that used to be provided by partners. H-P expanded into consulting last year when it bought EDS, Cisco announced in March that it was moving into the server business, in April SAP’s software rival Oracle agreed to buy hardware maker Sun Microsystems, and in June, Intel, which makes chips, agreed to buy a software company.
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23-06-09: SAP Business Objects integrates into Jive
Enterprise software giant SAP today announced that its on-demand BusinessObjects suite of products will be integrated into Jive Software's community software product for large enterprises. "SAP combines the most innovative business intelligence products on the market with the security and scalability that our enterprise customers require," said Christopher Morace, Jive Software senior vice president of products, in a statement. "By adding a social layer to enterprise reporting, our companies are setting a new threshold for business intelligence."
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22-06-09: SAP Loses Customers to Oracle on Ellison’s Acquisition Binge
SAP AG, whose new software sales plunged 33 percent last quarter, is struggling to wrest orders from Oracle Corp. as more customers like Jeff Kuckenbaker opt for the U.S. company’s software and services to run businesses. Kuckenbaker, who manages technology at Star Trac, an Irvine, California-based fitness-equipment company with four million clients in 75 countries, picked Oracle over SAP last month to tie its diverse computers into a seamless network.
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17-06-09: SAP Wants to Help Microcredit Groups Manage Loans
SAP hopes to help lower the cost of managing loan portfolios for organizations offering microcredits as part of a partnership announced Wednesday with French nonprofit group PlaNet Finance..
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17-06-09: SAP chief sees signs of improvement in sector
SAP ... sees signs of an improvement in the sector and is sticking to its 2009 operating margin goal, Chief Executive Leo Apotheker said on Wednesday.
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17-06-09: SAP Introduces Solution for Public Budget Formulation
In these uncertain economic times governments are under increased budgetary pressures. Budget officers are challenged to prepare their organizations’ budgets in an environment of diminishing tax revenues and limited internal resources. To address these issues, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced a new software solution for public budget formulation developed specifically for the U.S. and the Canadian market. Designed by former public sector budget officers, this comprehensive budgeting solution supports governmental budgeting processes.
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17-06-09: Oracle Buys IP Assets Of SAP-Backed Conformia Software
Oracle (ORCL) this afternoon announced that it has acquired the IP assets of Conformia Software, a start-up focused on product and process lifecycle management software for the life sciences sector. Terms of the deal were not announced.
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17-06-09: SAP chief sees signs of improvement in sector
SAP ... sees signs of an improvement in the sector and is sticking to its 2009 operating margin goal, Chief Executive Leo Apotheker said on Wednesday.
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