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News The UK and Ireland SAP User Group has expressed dissatisfaction with the changes SAP has made to its software support programme. Alan Bowling, UK and Ireland SAP User Group chairman, said the fact this change is mandatory for existing customers and... [25 Jul 2008]
SAP: Time up for TomorrowNow
News SAP is to wind down TomorrowNow, the third party support subsidiary it acquired in 2005. TomorrowNow - which provides support for applications produced by SAP's chief rival Oracle, at a lower cost than Oracle's own support - will be formally wound... [22 Jul 2008]
Price hike for SAP's Enterprise Support
News SAP has announced it plans to transition all customers to its new Enterprise Support offering from 1 January 2009. SAP is pitching this as a service that adds customer value but in reality it means a cost increase. [16 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News Back in March, Nationwide signed a multimillion pound deal with SAP to use the German software giant's banking platform as part of its £300m Voyager business transformation project. Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal... [30 Jun 2008]
Oracle takes on SAP with retail apps
News The version 13 release is designed to address the gap in the market for an integrated store-to-web-to-back end system and go head to head with arch rival in the retail space SAP. Oracle has released the latest version of its Retail application... [18 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Software giant SAP has its only UK research facility in the region while BT, Cisco, Citigroup and Nortel are other big players with a presence. ECIT hosts tech companies - such as TDK - and also provides services to boost the research capabilities... [02 Jun 2008]
SAP promises to listen to customers
News SAP's UK boss has pledged to put more emphasis on listening to customers and being more responsive than the ERP software giant has been in the past. Steve Rogers, UK MD of SAP admitted the company has fallen short in terms of listening to its... [23 May 2008]
Royal Mail on target to save £300m with SAP
News Royal Mail is on course to save £300m over three years through efficiencies created by its SAP-based procurement transformation programme. Central to the project is SAP supplier relationship management (SRM) software and its E-Procurement module. [22 May 2008]
SAP touts "collaborative" SOA
News SAP says collaborative working through service oriented architecture (SOA) technology represents the future for businesses. Speaking at the opening day of SAP's Sapphire conference in Berlin, Henning Kagermann - SAP co-CEO - said collaboration is... [19 May 2008]
RIM reveals BlackBerry roadmap
News This belief underpins its recent partnership with enterprise software giant SAP to deliver CRM via the BlackBerry. The two companies said they are working on getting several more SAP apps mobilised. Giving a keynote speech at WES - which included a... [14 May 2008]
SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys
News SAP and RIM have announced a "co-innovation" partnership which will see all the enterprise-software company's applications made natively available on the BlackBerry smart phone. The companies announced last week that the first of SAP's software to... [06 May 2008]
SAP SaaS delay - no surprise
News SAP's decision to delay the rollout for its Business ByDesign on-demand software should comes as no surprise but could prove a boon for software as a service vendors according to analysts. When SAP's first real foray into software as a service was... [01 May 2008]
EC: Oracle-BEA gets the go-ahead
News The Commission statement said: "The combined Oracle and BEA entity would face several strong competitors in the overall middleware market and in each of the sub-segments, such as IBM, Sun, Microsoft and SAP, and customers would, therefore, find... [01 May 2008]
SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle
News With the appointment of Leo Apotheker to the post of co-CEO, SAP is trying a tag-team, two-in-the-box CEO transition strategy it has used before. The enterprise software giant used a similar game plan when grooming Kagermann as the successor to SAP... [04 Apr 2008]
Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract
News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore T-Systems will take over the infrastructure and IT professionals of Shell's global data centres, including three centres in the Netherlands and one each in... [31 Mar 2008]
