The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

In this video interview, Tony Naylor, director, Global Strategic Service Partners, SAP Labs, discusses how SAP and CSC are transforming the enterprise together at the recent CSC Business Soultions and Technology Conference. Mobility, cloud and products that create value for customers are touched upon. You can also check out the lively conference chatter on Twitter: #CSCTechConf. (more…)

SAP recently announced its first-quarter financial results, the fifth consecutive quarter of strong, double-digit growth for the company. One reason for SAP’s impressive financial performance involves customers that are embracing SAP’s “innovation and open ecosystem strategy,” according to SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott. Does a robust ecosystem really boost financial performance? Members from SAP’s mentor community weigh in. (more…)

The SAP Channel Partner Summit Americas 2011 wrapped up today with SAP and its channel partners revved and ready for business in 2011. The excitement was palpable in Savannah, where the summit was held. In the keynote presentation given earlier today by Robert Courteau, president of SAP North America, he underscored how serious SAP is about making the channel successful. SAP demonstrated and delivered on that commitment throughout the summit, and the partners in attendance left energized, excited, educated and ready to help small and midsize enterprise customers “Run Better Together” with SAP solutions.

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SAP Channel Partner Summit Americas 2011, held in Savannah, Ga., kicked off earlier today with a keynote address by Kevin Gilroy, senior vice president, SME North America, to the more than 680 attendees from the U.S. and Canada. The message: “Be bold. We are at a tipping point with new innovations in areas such as business analytics, cloud computing, in-memory computing and mobility. The opportunity before us and our channel partners is huge and we will never go back to the way business was done in the past. One-hundred percent of our new SME business in North America will be channel-led.”

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SAP collaborates on sustainability with partners and customers in an ecosystem as diverse, far-reaching, and interactive as the very planet it is working to sustain. And just as signs bubble up from the earth presaging problems, so do countermeasures and solutions percolate from the individuals and organizations in SAP’s thriving network.

The end goal: to meld sustainability and profitability via the holistic management of economic, social, and environmental risks and opportunities within an organization. (more…)

Duet Enterprise, a product jointly developed by SAP and Microsoft, enables people to use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 together with SAP applications.  The product targets customers that use both systems and allows them to deliver solutions that blend the business data and processing functionality of SAP applications with the collaboration and productivity supported by Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010. (more…)

It seems nearly everything these days comes down to two things: speed and agility. The ability to evoke a quick and agile response to change – from rising floodwaters, angry citizens, tainted poultry, receiving medical care to market dynamics – is crucial to life and business alike. (more…)

Do I have an unhealthy obsession with Baylor College of Medicine? I’m starting to think so. I paid them a personal visit a few years ago and have been tracking their vital statistics ever since. I had a chance to run another check up recently (yes, I love puns) and I am happy to report that their current IT prognosis, which involves the installation of a materials management application, running on SAP NetWeaver Mobile 7.1, looks good. Baylor is also an active participant within the SAP Community Network (SCN). (more…)

In Shanghai, space-age skyscrapers jut out from lines of century-old shop houses, while 100-meter freighters dwarf 100-year-old junks as both ply the turbid waters of the Yangtze. And it all works for the metropolis of 17-million. SAP SVP Xiaoqun Clever likens this dichotomy and harmony of old and new in the city to businesses’ IT landscapes. Companies are looking to max out their existing hardware and applications but at the same time don’t want to miss out on potentially valuable technology trends. (more…)

SAP has reached another key milestone in its mission to harness the transformative power of in-memory computing with the availability of SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA) software. This first version of SAP HANA is the result of a robust co-innovation program between SAP and key partners and customers. SAP also introduced the SAP BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce Planning application, the first in a new generation of in-memory applications based on SAP HANA. (more…)