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.
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.
SAP users are still fighting to fully justify their investment in the enterprise management software to senior management, according to newly released customer satisfaction data.The figures, released at the SAP Australia User Group plenary conference in Melbourne, show that on the whole SAP users are a relatively contented bunch.
How many vendors do you usually evaluate when trying to determine the best solution for a contract? Ten?
No longer can companies go at it alone, said Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP. 'Every company needs to cultivate a network of business partners to cope with the speed of change in business.' Big SOA is the way to do this.
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