| The Economist
CORPORATE IT
Creating the Cumulus
October 23, 2008
Software will be transformed into a combination of services
Even the biggest changes in IT have never spelt the death of anything, notes Josh Greenbaum of Enterprise Applications Consulting. IBM, for instance, is still making money with mainframes.
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PROGRAMMED FOR A FIGHT
October 18, 2007
Oracle and SAP are battling to dominate the business-software market
APPLE versus Microsoft, Informix versus Oracle, Netscape versus Microsoft. The history of commercial software can be written as a succession of epic battles for dominance of key markets. Now the industry is in the midst of another: America's Oracle is battling against Germany's SAP in the market for enterprise applications, the software that big companies use to run their businesses.
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LIQUID CONCRETE
September 13 2007 | WALLDORF, GERMANY
From
The Economist print edition
As software shifts to an “on demand” model, can SAP move with the times?
WHAT'S in a name? Apparently everything—at least when it comes to a product being launched by SAP, the world's third-largest software firm, on September 19th. Although the technical details are known, the firm has kept its name secret. But whatever it is called, the launch of the new product, code-named A1S, could be a turning point for both SAP and the enterprise-software industry.
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complete article at http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9803788&CFID=1156092&CFTOKEN=44121450
The New York Times
SHIFT AT THE TOP EMPHASIZES SAP'S BOTTOM LINE
August 25, 2008
WALLDORF, Germany — Henning Kagermann wants you to know that he is more than just a software geek.
Mr. Kagermann, the longtime chief executive of SAP, the giant maker of complex computer applications for business, is in the middle of a slow transition in which he will yield the top job entirely to Léo Apotheker, now the co-chief executive, in March. Mr. Apotheker rose through the ranks of the SAP sales force, a notably different career path than Mr. Kagermann, a former physics professor who made his name as a developer.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/technology/25sap.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
Marketwatch
IS YAHOO A WRONG TURN FOR MICROSOFT?
February
27, 2008
Merger could distract software giant from lucrative business market
For companies like PeopleSoft, Oracle Corp. and SAP, Microsoft's acquisition of Great Plains Software in late 2000 was an alarming sign: The world's No. 1 software maker was moving more aggressively into their turf, the highly-lucrative market for business applications.
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complete article at http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsofts-play-yahoo-could-distract/story.aspx?guid={CE32698D-E282-4E5F-92AF-734A8761E216}&dist=msr_1
SAP DEAL MAY HURT MICROSOFT RELATIONSHIP
October
8, 2007
Analyst says relationship may be on the rocks amid $6.8 billion buyout
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - SAP AG's decision to dramatically buy its way further into the burgeoning business intelligence market has opened another front for competition with fellow software giant Microsoft Corp.
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complete article at http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/saps-big-deal-adds-new/story.aspx?guid={F28B1C70-6AF8-42B3-8E9C-49706916D33C}&dist=msr_2
Business Week
2008 IT OUTLOOK: 'LESS THAN COMFORTING' October 15 , 2007
Joshua Greenbaum, principal of Enterprise Applications Consulting, says there's "tremendous interest" inside IT departments to cut costs. Some CIOs are paring back in anticipation they'll have their budgets sliced.
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complete article at http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2007/tc20071014_444767_page_2.htm
CORPORATE BOARDS GET BUSY ONLINE
August 14 2007
"A lot of board members I know are the smartest people you'll meet, but they are not technologically savvy," says Joshua Greenbaum, principal of Enterprise Applications Consulting, a corporate technology consulting firm.
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complete article at http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9803788&CFID=1156092&CFTOKEN=44121450
EAC GOES INTERNATIONAL....
Financial Times Germany
Personaldebatte in Walldorf
Eigentlich gibt es bei SAP genug zu tun: Zukäufe integrieren, neue Software etablieren. Doch Fragezeichen hinter einigen Vorständen lenken die Aufmerksamkeit davon ab.
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complete article at http://www.ftd.de/technik/it_telekommunikation/:Personaldebatte Walldorf/310258.html
SAP und Oracle wetteifern um Zukäufe
Oracle habe am Dienstag einen Brief mit einem entsprechenden Vorschlag bei BEAs Aufsichtsrat abgeben lassen, teilte Oracle am Freitag mit. Der Konzern, dessen letztendlich erfolgreiches Kaufangebot für Peoplesoft vor vier Jahren ein erbittertes und 18 Monate andauerndes Gezerre ausgelöst hatte, freue sich darauf "so schnell wie möglich eine freundliche Transaktion abzuwickeln", betonte Oracle-Präsident Charles Phillips in einer Mitteilung.
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complete article at http://www.ftd.de/technik/it_telekommunikation/265474.html?p=2
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