SAP
SAP's software powers many enterprises, but the company is in transition with new co-CEOs and a software as a service suite called Business ByDesign that targets the mid-market. SAP's software developer network is viewed as a powerful community that can deliver answers quickly. SAP is also betting heavily on business intelligence via its acquisition of BusinessObjects.
Featured Stories
Related Topics
Articles about SAP
Customer data scattered in enterprise, says Scribe study
The report finds that the biggest stumbling block on the path to better customer data integration is an increasingly complex IT environment.
Big-data confusion blunting business-intelligence spend
Big data may be handy shorthand for a whole group of issues but it's done little to increase businesses' willingness to spend on analytics in the short term.
SAP acquires Hybris; eyes e-commerce
The acquisition gives SAP an e-commerce platform that works on-premise or in the cloud.
SAP HANA sales fly but there's more to the in-memory story
While figures just out suggest impressive sales growth for SAP's in-memory database technology, rivals and critics are painting a more complex picture.
SAP talks up HANA in-memory software sales growth
SAP's investment in its HANA in-memory computing product is paying off as customer numbers rise
Dalgaard, former SuccessFactors chief, joins Andreessen Horowitz
Just days after SAP announced a cloud reorg, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard landed at one of Silicon Valley's leading enterprise VCs.
Workday takes on SAP and Oracle with payroll plans for UK, France
With its sights set firmly on European expansion, cloud ERP firm Workday has flagged up its strategic intentions with two new payroll initiatives.
IBM boosts SmartCloud data turnaround, adds support for SAP HANA
By adding its DB2 database software to SmartCloud, IBM boasted that both corporate and government customers could see up to 25 times faster data reporting.
SAP, EMPEA intro analytics tool for investment advice in emerging markets
Essentially, SAP has the tool set (thanks primarily to its flagship HANA in-memory database) while EMPEA will provide the brainpower.
Transfield to outsource IT, shared services
In a cost-cutting measure aimed at offsetting deteriorating market conditions, NBN contractor Transfield has brought forward plans to outsource IT and shared services.
HP, SAP unveil 'Project Kraken' single server test for big data
The joint collaboration project from Hewlett-Packard and SAP effectively triples the amount of memory on a single server designed for processing big data.
At Sapphire, SAP's Plattner swipes at critics, Oracle
SAP chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner takes the stage to bust myths about HANA, its in-memory database technology. Live from the Sapphire Now conference in Orlando.
SAP co-CEO Snabe: In business, eat (or be eaten)
Jim Hagemann Snabe offers the audience a lesson on Darwin and natural selection. Live from the company's Sapphire Now conference in Orlando.
SAP launches Fiori: consumer-style apps for common business functions
Quick-use apps for workflow approvals, information searches, self-service tasks and more from your daily office grind.
McLaren CIO: How we're working with big data
The F1 auto racing pioneer does a lot more with data than you'd expect.