June 26, 2008 10:13 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuitSAP is paying fellow enterprise applications company i2 $83.3 million to settle a patent dispute. In 2006, i2 had accused SAP of infringing on seven i2 patents, including patents for “an extensible model network representation system for process planning” as well as a “method for managing...
June 19, 2008 10:40 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPSAP was recently awarded a contract worth $108 million by the government of New South Wales, a state within Australia. That's hardly news in itself, as SAP regularly picks up government deals of this scope all over the scope. What's interesting, however, is that an outspoken local technology...
June 18, 2008 10:40 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
training,
trendThe topic of SAP skills has been a hot issue of late. For those interested in this topic, the U.K.'s ITjobswatch provides a list of the most popular SAP skills and other data that will be very...
June 16, 2008 8:09 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPNilesh Dasondi -- President of Edison, New Jersey's Cygate Software IT services firm -- was recently arrested, along with several of his Indian employees, for defrauding the U.S. government. Dasondi is charged with bringing Indians into the U.S. on H-1B visas and putting them to work in occupations...
June 13, 2008 9:38 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit,
SAPBy now, SAP's co-CEO -- and soon-to-be sole CEO -- Léo Apotheker has been welcomed into his new role by a host of journalists, analysts, and even the French government, which made the former SAP sales head a Knight of the Legion of Honor (whose value is surely diluted by the fact that it has...
June 10, 2008 9:57 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPCanada's ATB Financial is pursuing a $150 million project to rip out its legacy systems, some of which date back to the 1970s, in favor of SAP.
Given that SAP also added Bank of America as a customer earlier this year, the deal points to SAP's growing strength in the North American segment of the...
June 9, 2008 10:26 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
abapThere's an SAP skills shortage underway, and people want to know how to position themselves to take advantage. One approach is to look through lists of the SAP skills for which employers are...
June 6, 2008 12:10 PM
Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit,
SAPSAP and Oracle, embroiled in a bitter battle over SAP-owned TomorrowNow's unit's illegal downloading of Oracle support materials and other information (like software code), have failed to settle...
June 4, 2008 4:59 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPIn the wake of a particularly contentious entry I recently posted on the value of SAP certification, SAP careers expert