SAP's acquisition of Business Objects is unlikely to cause the company's existing customers to rush out and add business intelligence applications.
SAP and Microsoft on Tuesday announced plans to expand their partnership for Duet software, setting the stage for the next versions of the business applications project.
SAP, the German supply-chain software company, has taken advantage of the Hanover trade fair, CeBIT, to launch a raft of service-oriented architecture offerings for medium-sized companies.
Water-cooler sessions at SAP are expected to become more intense in the next month as the world's largest business applications vendor debates the future of its chief executive officer.
Farmers' Trading Company (FTC), the New Zealand department store chain, has virtually retired its old IBM mainframe after a three year system upgrade and consolidation.
Many Web 2.0 technologies and functions fall under the umbrella of KM: wikis for collaboration; tagging and "folksonomy", which is known to the fuddy-duddies as taxonomy; and blogging, which behind the firewall would otherwise be known as intranet publishing.
Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
BMC Software chief executive Bob Beauchamp on the revenge of the CFO and unravelling business' "ugliest ball of yarn."
PeopleSoft casts aspersions on the flexibility and adaptability of its competitor, SAP. The bombastic rhetoric is a side show, however. The issue for enterprises is which vendor can provide the most reliable, cost-effective solutions.
To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.
Sending jobs offshore will generate even more angst next year.
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