May 27, 2008 10:04 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPWal-Mart, which agreed to buy SAP ERP Financials last year, officially began its rollout yesterday. It's a massive, multi-phase project that sees Wal-Mart ditching its long history of developing IT systems in-house in favor of working with packaged software vendors (including SAP arch-rival...
May 23, 2008 10:40 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPSAP signed a megadeal with the U.K.'s Birmingham City Council (BCC) in 2006 designed to save the sum of $2 billion over 10 years. However, SAP's BCC deal is currently a project in trouble, joining the cities of
May 22, 2008 11:20 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPThe IT industry is abuzz with talk of Workday's recent Software as a Service (SaaS) deals at Chiquita and Flextronics. While I'm glad that Workday is having its day in the sun -- after all, I have Workday founder Dave Duffield to thank for Cornell's Duffield Hall, where I passed many pleasant hours...
May 19, 2008 9:21 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
Outsourcing,
partnersA recent book entitled Rightshore!: Successfully Industrialize SAP Projects Offshore by Capgemini consultants Anja Handel, Wolfgang Messner, and Frank Thun can serve as a...
May 16, 2008 9:41 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPThere is a growing number of failed SAP public sector deployments, ranging in scope from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) megadeal to the smaller Burnaby, B.C. project. Now the...
May 15, 2008 10:49 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
basis,
SAPThere's a major shortage of SAP skills in the marketplace, thanks to the inevitable lag time between SAP's aggressive debut of new products and IT workers' ability to master the associated skills.
That's the message from Foote Partners' upcoming report on IT skills and compensation. The report is...
May 14, 2008 9:53 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
trainingThere are no authorized SAP training partners.
That seems like an odd claim to make given the large number of companies claiming to provide authorized SAP training--Genovate, for example, and dozens of other companies based in South and East Asia. But the fact of the matter is that SAP itself does...
May 13, 2008 11:00 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAP,
sapphireThe show floor was electric this year at Sapphire 2008 in Orlando. With over 15,000 attendees, the vendors had their work cut out for them. I saw booths that featured magicians, Guitar Hero, and a 2008 Porsche. A handful took the sex appeal approach. With all these distractions, people were...
May 12, 2008 4:28 PM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPFor most industry watchers, ‘SAP’ and ‘BPM’ go together in the context of ProcessWorld, SAP partner IDS Scheer’s annual Business Process Management (BPM) shindig. But at Sapphire 2008, SAP showed signs of wanting to address more BPM capabilities via NetWeaver BPM.
