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SAP Pay Hot Despite Cold Economy
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 1:00 P GMT-05
A scarcity of experienced talent has helped pump up pay considerably for SAP-related skills in recent months, according to a new report.Read InformationWeek article: What's Hot? SAP Skills and Pay Ironically, this talent crunch –- arguably
SAP TechEd 2008 - Focus on Business Process Experts (BPX)
Saturday, 20 September 2008 3:47 P GMT-05
Of all the news that came out of the 12th annual SAP® TechEd conference held last week in Las Vegas, nothing resonated as loudly and as clearly as the heightened importance and growing need for SAP business process experts (BPX).Read article by S
SAP Fast-Start Program - The Ultimate Myth Buster
Monday, 15 September 2008 3:42 P GMT-05
That SAP ERP is too complex and expensive for small and midsize organizations has been a misleading myth for too long -- a myth that SAP’s ramped up fast-start program for SAP Business All-in-One solutions quickly debunks.Read article by Elliot
The Link Between SAP GRC & Good Credit
Monday, 15 September 2008 12:04 P GMT-05
As if the regulatory pressure of Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II is not enough to contend with, corporations must soon exhibit proof of a formal and effective risk-management program in order to secure a positive credit rating from Standard & Poor&rs
Optimal Solutions Featured in SiliconIndia Magazine
Monday, 15 September 2008 11:53 A GMT-05
Gurvendra Suri, founder and CEO of Optimal Solutions, has grown his company significantly every year for the past 13 years providing SAP solutions and services to some of the world’s largest corporations and government organizations. His plan
Putting SAP Enterprise Support in Context
Monday, 18 August 2008 2:51 P GMT-05
Announced in February, rolled out in May and soon to be mandatory for all maintenance customers, SAP’s Enterprise Support program has created quite a stir. While some customers applaud the enhanced offering and extended coverage, others lambast
SAP, BOBJ Deepen Integration, Sharpen SME Focus
Monday, 18 August 2008 2:42 P GMT-05
Delivering on a roadmap laid out soon after SAP's acquisition of Business Objects, SAP and BOBJ recently unveiled SAP Strategy Management 7.0, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.0, BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 7.0 and BusinessOb
Optimal Targets Metals & Mining Midmarket Companies
Monday, 21 July 2008 12:40 P GMT-05
Optimal Solutions Integration , Inc., an SAP channel partner authorized to resell the SAP Business All-in-One solution to midsize companies in North America, and a leading consulting and staffing firm that has achieved premier-level status in the S
SAP Makes New Enterprise Support Mandatory for All Customers
Wednesday, 16 July 2008 4:15 P GMT-05
SAP today announced a mandatory transitioning of all of its ERP customer to the new Enterprise Support maintenance program which will go into effect as of January 1, 2009.The primary drivers for this transition, according to SAP: "The ong
What to Make of SAP's New ERP Maintenance Offering?
Tuesday, 24 June 2008 10:02 A GMT-05
Here's the skinny on SAP’s new ERP Maintenance program, “Enterprise Support,” rolled out in February and announced in May:End to 17% basic supportEnd to 22% premium supportOnly option for new SAP ERP customers is the Enterprise
SAP Talent Scarce, Opportunities Rich
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 11:18 P GMT-05
A high ranking SAP exec recently confirmed a potential deficit of 30,000 - 40,000 SAP consultants over the next few years. For its part, SAP is working to fill the gap by increasing its investment in the SAP University Alliances program, a network of
Optimal's Big SAP Midmarket Push
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:02 P GMT-05
In line with SAP’s expanding partner ecosystem and stated goal of having 100,000 customers by 2010, Optimal Solutions Integration announced during SAPPHIRE that it has been named an SAP® Business All-in-One channel partner, and that Tailwin
News from SAPPHIRE 2008
Friday, 9 May 2008 11:30 P GMT-05
Times are charged for SAP, the customer community and partner ecosystem, and with more than 15,000 attendees converging at the premier SAP educational and networking conference, this year’s ASUG + SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando certainly was ac
SAP Upgrade Webinar
Thursday, 10 April 2008 11:31 P GMT-05
SAP upgrade on your radar? Want to know what's new in ECC? Need help deciding if the time is right to upgrade, building a business case for an upgrade, or understanding the risks that can derail your Upgrade?SAP upgrade specialists from Opti
SAP, Salesforce.com Square Off
Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:39 A GMT-05
In a debate billed as 'The Future of Enterprise Software,' SAP's Hasso Plattner and Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff squared off on a number of critical issues that will shape how the battle for enterprise software supremacy
SAP's Knockout Combo for CFOs
Saturday, 29 March 2008 6:43 A GMT-05
While most vendors market their solutions for governance risk and compliance (GRC) and corporate performance management (CPM) separately, the truth is that the value of both GRC and performance management solutions is most fully realized when these a
SAP's Crystal Clear CPM Vision
Thursday, 20 March 2008 4:38 P GMT-05
SAP has been very active over the past several years building, buying and evolving its corporate performance management (CPM) offering. This spate of activity has brought with it a number of changes—in terms of both product nomenclature and und
Good News for SAP: ERP Top Priority in 2008
Saturday, 1 March 2008 2:55 P GMT-05
Amid a host of not-so-optimistic IT spending forecasts for 2008, it appears that spending on ERP -- software giant SAP's bread-and-butter offering -- will continue strong throughout the year. According to a quarterly survey put out by UBS, spendi
SAP to Thrive When/If Recession Strikes
Tuesday, 12 February 2008 11:50 A GMT-05
Seems like everywhere you turn nowadays there’s talk about the U.S. slipping into an economic recession, dragging the world economy down with it and forcing a global belt-tightening across all industries. But all is not gloom and doom, and if t
SAP's Strong '07, Promising '08
Tuesday, 12 February 2008 11:37 A GMT-05
SAP has reported a 9% increase in total revenue to $15.28bn for the year ended December 2007. The strong growth was due to software and services revenue, which rose 13% to $11.03bn. Net profit was $2.83bn compared to $2.68bn a year ago.Read Computerw
SAP's Smart Plan for Driving Intelligent Applications
Thursday, 31 January 2008 2:23 P GMT-05
Business intelligence (BI) is red hot today, and for reasons more significant than the recent spate of high-profile vendor acquisitions. BI’s value is proven; its mettle is battle tested. For years now companies have leveraged BI and analytic s
SAP's Business Objects Buy Understood
Thursday, 17 January 2008 5:59 P GMT-05
Investors' initial reaction to SAP's bid for BI vendor Business Objects was a tad trepidatious. After all, the deal was by far the largest in SAP's 35-year history and, ostensibly, was in contrast to SAP's stated commitment to organ
SAP's Q4 Surge
Thursday, 17 January 2008 12:42 P GMT-05
The sluggish economy appears to have little impact on SAP. The company's 4Q numbers beat expectations with license revenue estimated to top 14 percent.Read Bloomberg article: SAP's License Revenue Jumps 14%, Beats Estimates Read Financial Ti
SAP '07 - '08: Top Trends, Challenges
Wednesday, 2 January 2008 4:35 P GMT-05
2007 was an exciting time for SAP and SAP customers alike. SAP ERP upgrades, enterprise SOA adoption and MDM initiatives were among the top SAP trends in 2007, and all signs point to these interrelated trends gathering steam in 2008. Read article by
Tme to Whet Your SAP xApp-etite
Wednesday, 2 January 2008 4:32 P GMT-05
It is no surprise that the rise of SOA is fueling the creation of composite applications (aka xApps) on the NetWeaver platform. Afterall, SOA’s raison d’ être is to enable monolithic applications to be broken into discrete, reusable
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