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SAP and its customer relationships

People don't generally trust corporate blogs, according to a Forrester Research study on the topic. There are, however some exceptions

SAP customers: What’s your Unicode strategy?

What is Unicode? Until fairly recently, you had to be a techno-geek to know, but now it seems that all SAP customers had better become familiar with it. In a nutshell, Unicode is a text encoding...

Who’s shopping for Business Objects?

Business intelligence initiatives are on the wish lists of many CIOs this year. That even includes President-elect Barack Obama, according to this

SAP Watch is moving to a new home

Good news. Within the next few weeks, SAP Watch will move to IT Knowledge Exchange. It's another TechTarget website where you can ask or answer technical questions, and follow any one of the dozens of IT blogs hosted there. We're...

Does investing in IT make sense now?

On my way home from New York, a gentleman who was also riding the train noticed I was reading about SAP. As he sold software for a best-of-breed provider, we struck up a conversation about the state-of-the-software business. "No one is buying anything right now," pretty much summed up his thoughts...

Partly cloudy for SAP?

Cloud computing is starting to take shape for SAP.

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker was in New York Friday, presiding over a forum at the company's New York City office called "Why investing in IT makes sense in troubled times." And during the forum, attention turned to SAP's recent investment in...

Can Silicon Valley help bail out Detroit?

Many of you, no doubt, are watching closely what happens with the proposed bailout of the U.S. auto industry because SAP is so dominant in the manufacturing sector here. While most of the talk around technology's  role in saving the industry has centered on making greener vehicles, the "big...

Is it a buyer’s market for vendors?

Not everyone will be hunkering down in this economic downturn - the big vendors, including SAP, will be spending money.

The high cost of winning new customers will drive acquisitions - because many vendors are spending more than $1 for every $1 they're bringing in, according to AMR Chief...

No Business“Buy”Design, no problem?

SaaS ERP -- with its irresistible pay-as-you-go model and less-costly deployment -- is well positioned for the current economy, most analysts agree.  So is SAP missing out on big chances to sell Business...

How can SAP get back on track?