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 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
June 3, 2008 10:08 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPOne of SAP's strategic imperatives for the near future is to raise the company's operating margin. Speaking at SAP's annual meeting, Co-CEO Henning Kagermann was sanguine that the margin could reach 35%.
This goal explains some of SAP's actions in the recent past -- such as the raising of...
May 29, 2008 10:16 AM
Posted by: JackDanahy
SAPAt the recently concluded Sapphire Berlin, SAP co-CEOs Henning Kagermann and Léo Apotheker argued that IT-enabled "strategic agility" was the path to competitive differentiation in the current business environment. Kagermann, for example, stated that "true business network...
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 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...
