SAP

Update: SAP module reorganization?

It all started with a quote from Ray Wang of Forrester Research, as he mentions that SAP might be “getting rid of terms like ERP, SCM, etc, and transforming it all into about seven sections.” A comment that...

How many Oracle customers did SAP actually take?

Remember SAP’s Safe Passage initiative? Well, apparently a few Oracle customers never made it through safely. Something interesting emerged in a recent judge’s order in Oracle’s TomorrowNow lawsuit,...

SAP module reorganization?

SAP may be on the verge of reorganization, according to Ray Wang, principal analyst at Boston-based Forrester Research. The company hinted at the new plan on July 1, 2008 in Walldorf, Germany -- but it is currently only a rumor. However, if this turns out to be true, SAP may be, "getting rid of...

ASUG CEO Steve Strout on sudden SAP ERP 6.0 upgrades

I asked Steve Strout, CEO of ASUG for his take on the recent surge of customers upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0 since the latest enhancement package release. He was able to shed some light on the issue:

Well, I believe the 10,000 is a global number of ERP 6.0 customers who have or are in the...

How SAP can hit the 100,000 customer mark by 2010

Recently SAP released its third enhancement package for SAP ERP. SAP began releasing these enhancement packages about two years ago. Since then, by offering free upgrade packages that offer industry-specific business processes, Waldorf has been fine-tuning SAP ERP 6.0 in an attempt to cater to the...

Burnaby’s bizarre SAP justification

We blogged earlier about the city of Burnaby, B.C.'s SAP project, which has sucked up millions of the Canadian town's unbudgeted dollars due to project creep. That's tragic for the citizens of...

Executive shakeup at SAP

SAP is celebrating July with an executive shakeup. As of today, the SAP Executive Board has appointed the following new members: Erwin Gunst: Gunst, formerly president of SAP's EMEA division, is now COO as well as an Executive Board Member. Bill McDermott: McDermott, formerly the president of SAP...

Oracle-SAP lawsuit update: Why Oracle won’t get its $1b

Oracle wants as much as $1 billion from SAP for SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow's alleged theft of Oracle support documents and other illegally downloaded intellectual property (IP). As the legal...

SAP attacked over no-bid contract

SAP 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...

Alleged SAP partner arrested: Beware of fraud

Nilesh 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...