SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Release to Customers

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...Just before the SAPPHIRE NOW conference, SAP announced the Release to Customer (RTC) of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, Edge BI 4.1 and Crystal Server 2013. Here are the highlights. SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Relea... (Read Full Article)

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Think enterprise software is complex? Check out the licences

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...eal competitive advantages, such as SAP's HANA database and Oracle's Exadata database appliance. Customers of Oracle and SAP appear, by and large, quite happy with the functionality delivered by the vendors' wares. But t... (Read Full Article)

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Deploy SAP Solution Manager software faster with content accelerators

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...e than 30 SAP Community Network blogs, written articles for SAP Professional Journal and recently co-wrote an SAP Press publication. As a certified SAP Technical Quality Manager at SAPWORKS, de Thomasis has developed SAP... (Read Full Article)

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Confidential document shows SAP licensing confusion

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...m SAP ERP order-status checks through SAP CRM," the document states. "Access to other SAP software requires a SAP Application Business Expert User, a SAP Application Professional User or a SAP Application Limited Profess... (Read Full Article)

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SAP acquires SmartOps to boost real-time SCM

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Ovum Report Reveals SAP’s Mobile BI Strengths, Weaknesses

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...ays. “The more SAP is playing the front office, the more interest from SMBs it’ll get.” For More Resources on SAP Mobile BI Strategy: Read more about SAP’s platform agnostic approach to mobile devices Read more on the st... (Read Full Article)

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Can Traditional ERP Vendors Keep up with Consumer Demand?

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... way, there is no denying that a market shift is taking place, and if enterprise software giants like SAP and Oracle are to fight this battle valiantly, they will have to pay attention to consumer demand and quickly resp... (Read Full Article)

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Four tips to overcome four common challenges to implement Sap Hana

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...f trouble. Tip: Put in place robot design guidelines and developer standards for SAP HANA, including how your SAP HANA specialists are continuously up-skilled and trained to address future changes. One of the amazing thi... (Read Full Article)

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Connecting the Dots: What comes after Business Suite on HANA

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...AP. I found comment especially intriguing combined with reference to SAP’s 250 HANA Cluster.  I could imagine SAP also moving more aggressively into the cloud hosting business. SAP has also built a 1 HANA cluster and I a... (Read Full Article)

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Defense-in-Depth for SAP Systems: Lessons from the Top Ten Data Breaches of 2012

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...bases supporting SAP systems should be secured in accordance with the comprehensive security guides issued by Oracle for each database version. In some cases, vendor-specific recommendations may conflict with SAP require... (Read Full Article)

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Anarchy in Enterprise Software: The Revolution of Tier III ERP Vendors

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...olutions are driving the highest rates of growth in the market, while traditional Tier I vendors such as SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics are investing increasing R&D dollars in their cloud software offerings. In fact,... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Database Platforms - the Developer experience

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...itions of IQ or ASE, nor any virtual images. Now onto SAP's flagship database, SAP HANA. Drum roll. I google "SAP HANA Download" and start to feel rather nervous: It appears there is no free download of SAP HANA. You hav... (Read Full Article)

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Top Trends in Business Intelligence in the Year Ahead

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... Looking back, an important dashboard release in 2012 was of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery, acquired by Oracle at the end of 2011, rebranded and able to run on the Exalytics appliance. While Oracle keeps wanting to... (Read Full Article)

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SAP SaaS marches on

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... ideation and management with Lars Dalgaard heading the cloud unit. SuccessFactors brings a SaaS pedigree to SAP. All “legacy” or pre-SaaS software vendors including those like IBM, Oracle, Computer Associates, etc. all... (Read Full Article)

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SAP Sweetens Hana Deal With Free Sybase Database

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...ver mix of configurations they want," explained Prakash Darji, SAP's global VP for data warehouse solutions & SAP Hana platform. SAP customers could use Hana to accelerate certain Business Suite processes while leaving o... (Read Full Article)

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SAP Steps on the Gas

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...Mr. Lucas said SAP would charge existing customers an amount equal to 15 percent of the fees they now pay for SAP applications to add HANA. By SAP’s calculations, that price should more than pay for HANA just in simpler ... (Read Full Article)

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SAP ports its Business Suite to HANA

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...racle, IBM and Microsoft. Update: SAP ports its Business Suite to HANA ERP software will be running on top of SAP's HANA in-memory database later this year, as vendor targets Oracle, IBM and Microsoft By Chris Kanaracus ... (Read Full Article)

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SAP's McDermott rolls with ever-changing tech 'revolution'

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...lear images. He told Jobs he wanted all SAP salespeople to have one. Jobs knew McDermott from McDermott's pre-SAP stint at California's Siebel CRM Systems (now part of Oracle). The two talked often about pancreatic cance... (Read Full Article)

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SAP Third Party – Indirect Usage Licensing

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...ly pursuing sales while generally maintaining good customer relations.  It is a balancing act that has served SAP well.  Over the years SAP has avoided the market perception of a ruthless, do anything to get the sale, so... (Read Full Article)

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Analyst, SAP dispute over reported support discounts reveals murky picture

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...maintenance revenues, which carry high profit margins, are to software vendors like SAP. Oracle famously sued SAP after its former subsidiary TomorrowNow made illegal downloads of Oracle software and other materials in o... (Read Full Article)

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SAP mulls Shanghai listing

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...d by the euro zone debt crisis. SAP is already listed in Germany and New York. The group, which competes with Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, wants to invest $2 billion in China by 2015. It also has a mid-term sales target of... (Read Full Article)

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Moving process automation into the cloud

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...e have also invested heavily in Oracle in the last couple of years, and we have had some bad luck, given that Oracle changed architecture, and we had to then also change our architecture, which took longer than anticipat... (Read Full Article)

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SAP debuts Financials OnDemand

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...SAP announced it is finally wading into the SaaS financials market with its new SAP Financials OnDemand. SAP announced that it is rolling out SAP Financials OnDemand, the cloud-based counterweight to its on-premises... (Read Full Article)

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Predictive analytics software: SAP or 'best-of-breed'?

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...sObjects Predictive Analytics software, but it's not a universal fit for all SAP shops, according to experts. SAP shops sitting on the sidelines of big data and predictive analytics now have good reason to consider takin... (Read Full Article)

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