SAP, NetBase: Pinterest is fastest growing social site ever
NetBase and SAP have published an infographic analyzing the roughly five million online conversations about Pinterest in the past year.
NetBase and SAP have published an infographic analyzing the roughly five million online conversations about Pinterest in the past year.
Hockey is finally getting access to real-time stats to back up its high-speed reputation.
SAP CEO Henning Kagermann's Sapphire keynote (see ZDNet coverage of the event) didn't reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application with a new business suite aimed at the lower mid-market.
At SAP's Sapphire, SAP laid MySAP to rest and resurrected it as SAP ERP 6.0.
During his keynote, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann showed how SAP is beginning to embrace the concepts of Web 2.0.
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SAP doesn't go after the big fish like its rival Oracle, but it occasionally picks up a relatively smaller strategic acquisition. OutlookSoft will give SAP another entry point, beyond its core ERP software, into the CFO office with corporate performance management solution, covering planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation.
Oracle earlier this year accused SAP of hacking into its customer support centre and stealing proprietary software code -- it turns out that SAP made some "inappropriate" downloads.In a filing to the US District Court in San Francisco on Monday, SAP said that TomorrowNow, which resells Oracle support as part of its business, was "authorised to download material from Oracle's Web site" on behalf of TomorrowNow customers.
SAP co-founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board Hasso Plattner gave a reprise of his "New Idea" Sapphire presentation at Software 2007. The presentation covers many concepts (see below), which I wrote about in this post from SAP's Sapphire conference in Atlanta last month, that underlie SAP's new code base, code-named A1S, aimed at small- and medium-sized business and due sometime in 2008.
Once a rising star at SAP, Shai Agassi is leaving software in favour of a possible switch to the hot alternative-energy sector.