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SAP Declares Victory Over Manugistics, Takes Aim at i2 (3 Pages)
by Steve McVey
Mar 15, 2000 Abstract : On February 25 in Waltham, Massachusetts, SAP proclaimed itself the number two vendor of supply chain management solutions. Many in the room were openly skeptical, but does SAP have a case?
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SAP Remains Vital Amid Ailing Market And Internal Adjustments Part 2: Continued Analysis and User Recommendations (3 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Feb 26, 2002 Abstract : SAP's focus on delivering a portal as an overlaying personalized user interface may proved to be a crucial bet, as an intuitive portal might prove to be a simple an effective way to integrate information from disparate systems.
Type: Article
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SAP Posts Solid Q499, but Warns of Q100 (3 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Feb 7, 2000 Abstract : On January 24, SAP announced its preliminary year-end results and warned that the costs of its new employee stock option plan and marketing and staff additions for its mySAP.com Internet software system would likely outpace sales in the first quarter of 2000.
Type: Article
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SAP - A Humble Giant From The Reality Land? Part 4: SAP's Strategy (7 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Aug 6, 2001 Abstract : It appears as though SAP feels confident now that its software solutions outside of its core ERP can stand on their own and attract new customers.
Type: Article
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| 15. |
SAP - A Humble Giant From The Reality Land? Part 5: Challenges and User Recommendations (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Aug 9, 2001 Abstract : Delivering on its enormously ambitious strategy is the challenge SAP faces.
Type: Article
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SoftBrands to Institute Fourth Shift for SAP Business One Manufacturing Work-Plan Part One: Event Summary (3 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
May 7, 2004 Abstract : As the contest for the lower-end of the market intensifies, SAP is further honing a twofold strategy of promulgating its mySAP All-in-One vertical offerings for the higher-end of the mid-market, while offering the SAP Business One product to appeal to smaller enterprises with less complex processes. SoftBrands comes to help with its Fourth Shift product to bolster long-missing manufacturing capabilities of SAP Business One, but the benefits should go both ways, once the integration materializes.
Type: Article
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| 17. |
Oracle Gets SAP'ed by IBM (3 Pages)
by M. Reed
Dec 8, 1999 Abstract : SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an agreement to expand their global sales, marketing and development relationship. As part of this agreement, the two companies will work together to provide expanded choices for customers that wish to implement mySAP.com and IBM's DB2 Universal Database on a variety of hardware platforms. Following in the footsteps of Siebel, SAP has abandoned Oracle and is standardizing on DB2 UDB as its preferred platform. The deal is estimated at $400 million in sales annually.
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SAP Weaves Microsoft .NET And IBM WebSphere Into Its ESA Tapestry (3 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Mar 5, 2003 Abstract : While SAP’s determination to become service-oriented architecture applications Lingua Franca evangelist should be of vital importance to its customers and for the general market direction, one should in the short-term expect tremors rather than tectonic moves and a speedy extinction of many pre-historic looking application species.
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To Gain Market Share in the Mid-Market, SAP Leaves No Stone Unturned (4 Pages)
by Kevin Ramesan
Jun 30, 2003 Abstract : The star above small and medium businesses (SMB) has never been so bright. CRM solution vendors are courting this market segment extensively. This is the second of a series of articles that look at strategies deployed by major enterprise solution vendors to attract the SMB decision makers and whether those vendors are ''dumbing down'' their enterprise software for the mid-market. This article evaluates SAP's mid-market solutions and its implementation approach.
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'Collaborative Commerce': ERP, CRM, e-Proc, and SCM Unite! A Series Study: SAP AG by Randy Garland
Sep 22, 2001 Abstract : SAP AG has seemingly crossed a strategy chasm, from a strict, stodgy, Not-Invented-Here (NIH) approach to software development and delivery, to a seemingly quite open approach of broad development alliances, company acquisitions, Internet portals development, and a deep, new relationship with IBM for both technology sharing as well as bolstering IBM Consulting’s support for SAP’s new multiple mySAP.com™ initiatives. 'Collaborative' and 'SAP' were not two words you might have ever seen in the same article. You’re seeing it now.
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