December 30, 2008
Neptune Orient Lines Standardizes IT Environment with SAP NetWeaver
Container shipping and logistics group Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has launched a project to standardize and streamline its business processes on a common technology platform — SAP NetWeaver. The company will implement the SAP ERP Financials solution, and has also selected business intelligence solutions from Business Objects, an SAP company. |
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December 18, 2008
Bucking the economic trend, HSBC embarks on NetWeaver PI project
SOA-type projects aren't in too many IT budgets these days, but the HSBC Group is pursuing one that it hopes will improve its customers' experience with payment processes. The London-based corporate bank is using SAP NetWeaver Process Integration — SAP's integration tool for connecting various parts of NetWeaver and connecting it to external systems — to link its corporate customers with its back-end system. Its goal is to automate and speed up payment processes by allowing users to access them all through one portal. |
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December 16, 2008
DSAG Technology Days 2009: Focus on SAP NetWeaver
Next year's DSAG Technology Days, the second-largest event of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG), once again focus on technology. On the agenda are developments in and around SAP NetWeaver and technical questions on SAP applications. |
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December 13, 2008
Home Trust Company Invests in SAP Software to Transform Core Banking Processes
SAP Canada Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG, announced that Home Trust Company of Toronto, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Home Capital Group Inc., will implement SAP solutions to transform its core banking processes and increase agility to deliver enhanced products and services on an integrated platform to support its growth. |
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December 09, 2008
BearingPoint and SAP America Sign New Go-to-Market Agreement
BearingPoint, Inc., one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced the signing of a new go-to-market agreement with SAP America, Inc. that will focus on helping customers better manage enterprise performance and proactively mitigate risk. |
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December 05, 2008
IT Outsourcing Models at a Glance
Less investment, lower operating costs, and the ability to focus on core competencies: these are the reasons companies cite most often for outsourcing their IT. But not all IT outsourcing models are created equal. Three main models dominate the wide range of concepts discussed, offered, and implemented on the market. |
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November 28, 2008
A New Era for SAP BI Customers
Both SAP and Business Objects refer to SAP's acquisition of Business Objects as a "match made in heaven". The products and services offered by the two vendors are indeed very complementary. |
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November 25, 2008
SAP Halves Prices for NetWeaver Development Licenses
SAP cut the prices for NetWeaver development and composition subscriptions nearly in half this week to make the platform more accessible to consultants and developers. |
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November 19, 2008
SAP Middleware Strategy
Unlike companies such as Sun, Microsoft and IBM, SAP came from a relatively narrow business category before it got into middleware. It based its business on applications, and not much else. There was no infrastructural component to the firm's portfolio, other than software that directly supported its application base. A few years ago, it bolstered that infrastructural element to turn itself into a more open company. |
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November 18, 2008
Adobe Targets the Enterprise with SAP, Salesforce Integration
Adobe announces extended collaboration with SAP to help SAP developers build rich applications using Adobe’s tools. Meanwhile, a Salesforce.com executive states that Salesforce does much the same thing using Adobe’s front-end design and development tools. The enterprise is a key target for Adobe, said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Adobe's Creative Solutions Business Unit. |
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November 10, 2008
SOA Success: Got Process Governance?
Enterprise borders are becoming more fluid, requirements are changing dramatically, and processes need to be more responsive. As a result, every company must have robust process governance that requires them to think beyond traditional IT management. The permanent primacy of processes is key to establishing the foundation for your service-oriented architecture (SOA) success. |
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November 05, 2008
SAP Bolsters SAP NetWeaver® to Maximize Agility and Competitive Advantage
SAP announced new and enhanced offerings, tools and components to its SAP NetWeaver® technology platform that will help customers further maximize their investment and competitive advantage through a consolidated IT landscape. With more than 46,700 productive systems, the adoption of SAP NetWeaver continues to grow as customers continually rely on a strong foundation for SAP applications with the ability to add on, customize and update around a stable core. |
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November 03, 2008
SAP NetWeaver Technology Platform Enhanced by Redwood Job Scheduling Solution
Redwood Software announced that the SAP® Central Process Scheduling application by Redwood is now being delivered as a core component of the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. SAP Central Process Scheduling provides a central point of control for job scheduling and business process automation across SAP solutions and non-SAP systems. By managing and monitoring underlying processes, SAP Central Process Scheduling provides SAP customers with a new level of flexibility in responding to dynamic business requirements. |
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November 01, 2008
KAUST selects SAP solutions over Oracle
SAP AG said that the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a new international research university has selected a broad range of SAP applications over Oracle and others for its IT landscape and business platform. SAP said its solutions are aimed at supporting student-facing functions, main university administrative functions, and the information-sharing and integration needs of its collaborative, global research centers that focus on discovery and innovation in the areas of science and technology. |
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