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Sergey Sventitski — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:02:39 -0500

SAP iPhone business automation software

Sergey Sventitski — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:00:05 -0500

German business automation software developer SAP today announced
that its software will support Apple iPhone in its next release.

According to a SAP exec, Mr Stutz, the newly provided iPhone options
with this software will include business contacts loading, as well as
information on sales prospects and account data.

The new iPhone SAP software will use a web-based interface, featuring drag and drop tools.

For more information visit SAP’s official website.

Roy Anderson to Build Growth With SAP

Sergey Sventitski — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:13:17 -0500

GULFPORT, Miss. - November 05, 2007 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Roy Anderson Corp (RAC), one of the premier construction firms servicing the Southeastern United States, has selected SAP’s industry-specific solution portfolio SAP® for Engineering, Construction & Operations (SAP for EC&O). RAC considered several other solutions from vendors such as Oracle and Timberline, but determined SAP was best able to meet its needs for improved management of construction projects, optimization of data integrity and support for the company’s growth plan.

RAC decided to replace its existing IT architecture, comprised of a construction management system by CGC, with a comprehensive technology platform based on SAP® solutions to address several business issues, including siloed information and integrating systems from acquired businesses. In 2006, RAC employed more than 500 full-time employees and thousands of sub-contract employees working on notable construction projects, including the Harrah’s Grand Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi and The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

“The level of visibility SAP provides across all levels of our organization is a critical driver for improving RAC’s top and bottom line,” said Bill Ponseti, CIO, RAC. “Increasing efficiencies and eliminating roadblocks for future growth – particularly in analyzing job scope and costs and automating manual reporting, HR, payroll and other process – is paramount for RAC.”

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SAP Announces U.S. Partners to Sign Up to Assist Delivery of SAP® Business ByDesign™ to Midmarket

Sergey Sventitski — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:04:35 -0500

Existing SAP® Business All-in-One and SAP® Business One Resellers Intend to Invest in Making SAP Business ByDesign an Integral Part of Their SAP SME Solution Portfolio

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. - October 29, 2007 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced 13 North American SAP resellers – as part of 22 SAP resellers worldwide – will assist SAP in its further rollout of SAP® Business ByDesign™, the company’s most complete on-demand business software solution specifically addressing a new market of prospective, fast-growing midsize customers. Formally introduced on September 19, 2007, SAP Business ByDesign enriches SAP’s existing small and midsize business offerings by providing an intuitive, highly adaptable, user-friendly on-demand solution allowing for easier consumption, faster time to value and minimized overall IT costs for the growing midsize market.

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SAP and Microsoft Grow Hosted Partner Networks

Sergey Sventitski — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:57:13 -0400

SAP and Microsoft are expanding their hosted application partner networks, with Microsoft growing outside the US while SAP expands in the US.

At Microsoft's European Convergence conference, it announced several new international partners who will serve up hosted versions of the forthcoming Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 release, plus their own extensions.

The all-new CRM 4.0 (formerly known as Titan), which is due for release later this year, will be based on modern .NET architecture, plus multi-tenancy. The same code base will be used for on-premise and hosted implementations.

Microsoft is also slashing the fees it charges partners who offer hosted CRM services, from $25 per user per month to $15, which represents a 40% drop. The reduced price offers partners more scope when packaging the base CRM application with their own extensions because they can potentially offer both CRM plus extended services (back-office, vertical, or regional-specific extension) for the same price as other providers offer CRM-only services. It also helps Microsoft up the ante in the nascent SaaS application pricing/functionality war against players including Salesforce.com, NetSuite, and now SAP. Few players offer just CRM as a service.

Wal-Mart Selects SAP

Sergey Sventitski — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:43:58 -0400

Global Retailer Chooses SAP® ERP Financials to Support Growth and Navigate Evolving Business and Regulatory Landscape

WALLDORF, Germany - October 18, 2007 - Demonstrating ongoing leadership in providing innovative solutions to retailers worldwide, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) will enhance its financial information systems using SAP. Wal-Mart chose SAP® ERP Financials for its ability to support the retailer’s global expansion and its need to efficiently respond to changes in the business and regulatory landscape.

SAP TechEd'07

Sergey Sventitski — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:18:52 -0400

An Unmatched Educational Experience

Enterprise service-oriented architecture is ready to work. Are you ready with the knowledge, skills, and professional network needed to take advantage of enterprise SOA? Come to SAP TechEd '07 and learn how to use the power and flexibility of SAP NetWeaver to innovate and transform your business processes. Join SAP tech leaders and experts for instructor-led hands-on workshops, technical lectures, and networking opportunities.

Topics include all SAP NetWeaver practice areas with hot topics like Duet, SAP NetWeaver MDM, SAP xApp Analytics, SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment featuring Java EE 5, and ABAP. SAP TechEd '07 enables IT managers, business process experts, software developers, and administrators to focus on innovation and stay ahead of business change.

Mark Your Calendar for SAP TechEd '07

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ERP of this century

Sergey Sventitski — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:06:29 -0400

January 2006 A good rap song is hard to resist. Just ask the employees at SAP who helped spread a customized rap song to more than 85 percent of their colleagues. The rap song, written and produced by Morsekode, was the cornerstone of a viral marketing campaign that was honored this month by MarketingSherpa, Inc. as the favorite among the top 12 viral marketing campaigns of the year.

The campaign was developed by Morsekode to raise awareness for the agency's creative work for SAP and to generate sales leads within the organization. Built around a rap song titled "The ERP of This Century" (ERP stands for "Enterprise Resource Planning"), the campaign was intended to spread via e-mail forwarding, blogs and internal postings throughout SAP.

"We wanted to show SAP our expertise in the technology sector as well as our specific in-depth knowledge of SAP," commented agency principal, Mark Morse. "Our campaign met both objectives. When we call SAP today everyone has heard of us and our calls are returned â€“ even at the senior levels. That's exactly what we needed."

According to Morse, the URL to the rap song was originally sent to 20 people within SAP. The e-mail did not include a forwarding request. However, within the first month the song was played more than 14,000 times and to this day is played thousands of times each month. In addition, it has been posted on blogs all over the world, on internal SAP discussion boards, and has even been used for internal meetings at SAP locations around the world.

Lyric here...

I Hate SAP (my most clever title to date)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:52:09 -0400

Disclaimer: This starts off really slow and highlights just how big of a nerd I can be. A whole post about software...where in the hell is my pocket protector.

I read an article the other day about ERP software. The most interesting point in it was that the major ERP companies (think SAP) spend a majority of their revenues on advertising and trying to convince big business that their products are THE products to have.
To me this seems like it would lead to some serious problems. First off, if all of this money is being spent on advertising, what is being used to hire programmers to continually improve the software? Seems to me that this just leads to a very mediocre product that will quickly fall out of date. This in turn leads to the problem of acquiring and maintaining customers.

With a mediocre product, how do you get customers to buy it? I know! Spend more money on advertising. Spend oodles of $$$$ to convince all of the bonehead executives at major companies that your product is the one that they absolutely have to have. Make sure to use lots of little flashy, sparkly things to distract the executives from the lower cost alternatives that work way better but are not included in their list of executive buzzwords (again think SAP). That way, your customers employees (think me) can spend 5 x longer when trying to get anything done using your poorly thought out product.

Customer testimonial: Hi! My name is jpr and I LOVE SAP. Before when I did expense reports, I could get a months worth done in an hour. Now, with SAP, when I do expense reports I have to click on 5x as many buttons to do the exact same freaking thing. This keeps me from having to do any real work. Plus, when it is time to look the expense report over for mistakes, SAP puts it in a nice user-notfriendly format so that I can just say screw it and send it in as is.

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What if SAP made toasters...

Sergey Sventitski — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:46:20 -0400

The manual to run the toaster would be approximately 10,000 pages long. The toaster would come with 2,500 switches which would all have to be set in an exact pattern and in a precise sequence in order to toast specific kinds of bread. Each pattern would be established by SAP's experts as the Best Practices method of toasting that kind of bread. It would take a team of basis and functional contractors about 1 year to configure the toaster in the best manner, and then another 6 months to test it. In the mean time, your entire family would need to attend extensive training classes on how to use the new toaster. In order to support end users and consultants, MIT would establish a list-serv for people to post questions and answers regarding toaster set-up and operation. Of course, the online help would randomly pop up in German. But once it was running, you'd get the best toast in the world.

What about others...