SAP to deliver HR upgrade for U.S. Postal Service
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The U.S. Postal Service is about to get a $35 million Web-based human resources application makeover, based on the mySAP Business Suite from applications vendor SAP AG.
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(InfoWorld) - SAP AG has delivered the first in a planned series of regular enhancements to the current version of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, as the vendor embarks on a new way to deliver ERP applications. Previously, the company came out with a complete refresh of its ERP software every 12 to 18 months, including hundreds of product enhancements. Then, in September at its TechEd developer conference in Las Vegas, SAP announced plans to adopt a different tack in response to customer demand. The current release of its ERP software, mySAP ERP 2005, which debuted in May,Â will remain in place through 2010Â and act as a backbone on top of which users can choose to run any or all of a stream of optional enhancement packages issued by SAP and its partners. Released Monday, the first SAP enhancement package for mySAP ERP 2005 is centered around delivering new general-purpose human capital management (HCM) and financials features and specific functionality for the retail and manufacturing industries. On the HCM side, SAP is offering new capabilities to monitor service level agreements, while on the financials front, the vendor has beefed up its credit and collection management reporting and analytics. For retailers, SAP has drawn on its 2005 purchases of retail software vendors Triversity and Khimetrics to integrate their respective point-of-sale and pricing optimization technologies into mySAP ERP 2005. On the manufacturing front, the company is bringing manufacturing execution systems and work instructions along with quality management into its ERP software. The enhancements package is available to SAP customers already running mySAP ERP 2005 as part of their license and maintenance agreement. SAP plans to debut two to three enhancement packages per year, each with its own primary focus. New talent management and financial collaboration functionality, which the vendor positioned in September as likely to appear in the first package, is now scheduled to debut at a later date. Also on the cards for a future enhancement package are user interface simplifications related to Project Muse, a new GUI (graphical user interface) for mySAP applications developed through a partnership with Adobe Systems Inc.'s Macromedia business unit. Â
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SAP America Inc. won a $35 million contract to replace the US Postal Service&#39;s 25-year-old human resources software. The contract covers $14 million in license and maintenance fees for the MySAP Business Suite
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SAP AG on Wednesday unveiled a service that evaluates security settings across a customer&#39;s SAP enterprise system. SAP Security Optimization helps customers identify and fix vulnerabilities
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SAP has landed a $35 million deal to help the US Postal Service overhaul its human resources systems. According to sources close to the deal, the agreement includes a $21 million consulting component, and
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Computer Associates will install an SAP ERP system to replace a collection of homegrown accounting systems. Accenture will help with the implementation.
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SAP has launched SAP Security Optimization, a service that evaluates a customer&#39;s SAP system to identify and eliminate potential vulnerabilities and minimize the risk of intrusions.
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SAP is rolling out a new set of Java and business intelligence enhancements to its NetWeaver middleware and integration stack.
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Oracle Tuesday announced plans to extend the capability of its system management software to offer monitoring and management for SAP AG applications through a partnership with Nimsoft.
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In a round of unexpected dealmaking, the House and Senate began moving yesterday toward passage of legislation that would overhaul the business operations of the U.S. Postal Service for the first time since 1970.
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German software giant SAP AG is teaming with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to offer midmarket companies in the U.S. a hosted software offering that includes applications, maintenance, services, and support for a monthly fee.
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Taking a page from major enterprise software providers like Oracle and SAP, Microsoft announced this week Business Ready Customer Care, an initiative that includes major enhancements to its maintenance and support program for Microsoft Dynamics, ERP and CRM, applications.The customer support initiative does three things: Extends for five years the time over which Microsoft will support its products; offers more creative financing solutions for buying its CRM and ERP products, and promises to create a more transparent environment for its channel partners and their customers about future upgrades and products.Industry analyst Josh Greenbaum, principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting, said the fact that Microsoft is offering an additional five years of software support is in recognition of how well Oracle's extended support program is working for its customer base.Under the new Microsoft program there will be a total of five years of "mainstream" support for its products plus an additional five years of extended support, according to Christine Bell, director of global services product management, for Microsoft Business Solutions.Greenbaum says the extended support is a smart move on Microsoft's part."Oracle found out that extending support for their applications does not mean customers are gong to stall on [buying] new releases. They [Oracle] have a good upgrade flow despite or maybe because of extended support," Greenbaum said.In today's market, most vendors make upgrades a revenue-neutral event."You still get maintenance revenue either way, so why cause anxiety when you don't have to," added Greenbaum.On the financing side, Microsoft is now offering more options, including financing both the cost of hardware and software.Also available through March 2008 is a program called Smart Pay which will allow customers to select what their monthly payments will be for the first year.Finally, Bell said that Microsoft is making the commitment to deliver statements of directions that look out to the next 12 to 14 months."It will be very specific and talk about features and functionality," said Bell.Microsoft will include written documents on a special partner and customer Web site and will not require signing a non-disclosure agreement.The roadmap details are expected to start in November.
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SAP plans to expand its focus on business intelligence (BI) software over the next year.
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The US Postal Service has awarded SAP a $35 million contract to supply a new human-resources system. SAP has benefited from a series of big customer wins this year, showing strong revenue growth
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BOZEMAN, Mont., Feb. 14  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RightNow(R) Technologies  today made two key personnel announcements designed to help extend the company's leadership role in the next-generation, software as a service (SaaS) CRM market.
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Webmail.us is announcing improvements to its service next week and will migrate its core e-mail platform from Microsoft Windows to an open-source platform.
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The US Postal Service is expected to start seeking approval for a double-digit percentage increase in postage rates early next year.