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RSS SAP in newsHow will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Google is a company whose products usually start by capturing the imagination of consumers and then business gets interested but we have already had an enormous amount of interest [from companies]," Rasmussen told the... [28 Oct 2009]
Barclays CIO finds a new home with SAP
News Don Trotta has left his role as CIO with Barclays and taken a new position with SAP. Trotta has been appointed the ERP company's SVP and global head of financial services, responsible for product strategy, development... [22 Oct 2009]
Google Wave opens doors to 100,000 newbies
News A few companies, such as SAP and Salesforce.com, have already started playing around with the technology but Google is seeking feedback from other organisations on how Wave might work within their environment. [30 Sep 2009]
SAP on the hunt for more Business ByDesign guinea pigs
News SAP is holding back on a full-scale launch of its software-as-a-service technology, Business ByDesign, until it has more guinea pigs using it. The Business ByDesign enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for... [10 Sep 2009]
IBM wins five-year BP contract to keep SAP apps slick
News IBM maintains it won the largest chunk of the contract and appears to be responsible for SAP maintenance across BP, as well as the company's integrated services desk. BP CIO Dana Deasy said in a statement that IBM was... [27 Aug 2009]
SAP reveals software-as-a-service makeover
News SAP has spruced up its software-as-a-service technology, Business ByDesign by launching Feature Pack 2.0 (FP 2.0), as it looks to build its customer base. The Business ByDesign Enterprise Resource Planning software for... [30 Jul 2009]
SAP puts its services to the test
News Business software provider SAP and its European users have launched a benchmarking scheme to measure the performance of its services, a precursor to proposed increases in prices for support. The introduction of the... [07 Jul 2009]
Diageo drinks to $35m outsourcing deals
News The first contract, worth $7m, will see CSC design and install a new supply chain management system for the company, based on SAP. Drinks giant Diageo has signed two outsourcing contracts worth $35m with services company... [18 Jun 2009]
Recession-hit retailers fight back with online charm offensive
News According to a survey carried out by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and software vendor SAP, around half (51 per cent) of respondents are looking at new channels to market - such as transactional websites - as a way... [20 May 2009]
Data predictions made easier in the cloud
News SPSS already has technology embedded with the likes of HP, Oracle and SAP (with Business Objects) and this approach is also likely to continue according to the company's CEO. Predictive analytics software maker SPSS... [14 May 2009]
Customers show SAP who's boss over support price hike
News SAP users have ordered the software company to meet a new set of criteria in order to justify the support price rises it originally proposed last year. The SAP User Group Network has secured a deal by... [30 Apr 2009]
Doing more with less: CIOs disclose their plans
News In this year's research, a number of other technology objectives made the list, such as establishing "common processes and systems", integrating systems, "making the most of SAP", legacy retirement, "standardisation and... [20 Mar 2009]
SAP "not pulling the plug" on Business ByDesign
News The development of SAP's Business ByDesign on-demand ERP software is on track and remains a significant part of its long term strategy, according to the company. SAP appeared to have put the... [06 Mar 2009]
Microsoft wants to integrate Office 14 with rivals
News Some of that is efforts like Duet, which links to SAP, but it is also about helping businesses automatically generate and integrate Office documents as opposed to having Office documents live in their own world. [06 Mar 2009]
Netbooks and recession-busting tech headline at CeBit
News Regulars such as German software giant SAP and Deutsche Telekom, which traditionally announces new prices and packages at the fair, will make their way to CeBit, and Telekom's new finance chief Timotheus Hoettges said... [02 Mar 2009]
