SAP Gets $35 Million Post Office Pact
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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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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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Handheld computer maker Palm Inc. said Wednesday it would pay &#36;22.5 million to Xerox Corp. to settle a patent infringement suit filed in 1997.
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Computer Sciences Corp. won a $1.35 billion contract to manage phone and computer networks for Ascension Health, the biggest US nonprofit health care system.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland   Security said on Wednesday it awarded $1.35 billion in   contracts to three companies to develop a system to screen for   radioactive matter that might be hidden in cargo.
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(InfoWorld) - Enterprise applications vendor SAP and networking company Cisco Systems are touting their new marketingÂ alliance on governance, risk, and complianceÂ (GRC) business processes as a major milestone in their 18-month-old partnership. "This puts together two giants in their fields," Shai Agassi, president, product and technology group at SAP, said during a Wednesday conference call. "It allows us to look at the GRC problem from top down with [SAP's] processes and information, and from the bottom up with [Cisco's] network and infrastructure, and then connect up the dots." The two companies firmly cemented their budding friendship in May 2005 whenÂ Cisco signed up to licenseÂ SAP's service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform known as Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). Since that time, the vendors have been discussing a variety of areas for cooperation, but the move to team up on GRC announced Wednesday was driven by their customers, according to Doug Merritt, executive vice president and general manager of SAP's suite optimization products and technology group. Some 80 percent of SAP's customers also use Cisco technology. The move brings together SAP's upcoming trio of new GRC applications with Cisco's service-oriented network architecture (SONA), whichÂ debuted in December. SONA aims to link together all the IT resources in an enterprise's network including servers and storage, building more intelligence into the network through the use of services that operate across all the resources. The new SAP products are GRC Repository and GRC Process Control, due out on Nov. 30, and GRC Risk Management expected to ship sometime in December. Cisco hopes to come out with tools and adaptors to make it easier for customers to use the GRC/Sona combination in the same time frame, said Bill Ruh, vice president of advanced services at Cisco. The relationship is initially focused on SAP and Cisco working with customers and partners in the U.S. and Canada, but the vendors plans to expand the deal to include other geographies, Merritt said. When SAP's products appear later this year, they will be available globally. The vendor has yet to release pricing for the new GRC applications and although it's offering them as separate products, Merritt expects them mostly to be bundled with existing GRC applications such as Compliance Calibrator and Firefighter. SAP is planning other third-party vendor partnership announcements around its GRC offerings, but its executives Wednesday kept emphasizing the "unique" nature of the tie-up with Cisco. Over the past four to five months, the two companies have been working on integrating Cisco's network infrastructure with SAP's application infrastructure. They're also defining use cases or real-life scenarios for deploying the GRC/Sona technology combination, Merritt said. So far, the vendors have developed four to five scenarios, in the areas of how best to ensure confidential data like Social Security numbers is not deliberately or inadvertently leaked within or outside a company and around customer support service level agreements. In recent years, SAP has committed to more collaboration with other IT vendors, Merritt said. "SAP has really changed its stripes; that's hard for a grown tiger to do," he added. For the moment, the GRC Repository is full of SAP compliance policies, but the vendor's keen to establish "an open ecosystem" around the product, encouraging vendors and customers to populate the repository themselves. Merritt expects SAP to make a number of additionalÂ GRC announcementsÂ before year-end where customers will commit to help "prime the pump" for content for the repository, he said. Cisco's Ruh agreed. "Within the repository we can see our policies interacting those of our partners and of SAP; there will be a lot of synergies," he added.
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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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SAP AG  on Wednesday unveiled  a long-delayed line of Web-based software called Business  ByDesign that costs $149 per user, per month, and is at the  heart of a strategy to accelerate the company's sales growth.
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An SAP initiative to more tightly align its business software with Microsoft's tools is about to bear fruit.
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Very few organizations have as many feet on the street as the US Postal Service. To better get a handle on those feet, the Postal Service said Monday it&#39;s implementing SAP Human Capital
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Services and software companies IBM   and SAP , longtime technology partners, will  bring out their first joint software product in the fourth  quarter of this year, the two companies said on Monday.
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With a promise to create new types of online banking services, financial software vendor Intuit has agreed to buy financial services provider Digital Insight for $1.35 billion in cash.
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Technology consultant Computer Sciences Corp. on Monday said it received a 10-year, $1.35 billion contract to manage technology services for Ascension Health, one of the nation&#39;s largest nonprofit health systems.
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German business software giant SAP  SAPG.DE is starting to see the silver lining in a potential  linkup between rivals Oracle ORCL.O and PeopleSoft PSFT.O,  the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported.
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Computer Sciences Corporation has won a ten-year, $1.35 billion contract to manage telephone and computer networks for Ascension Health, the largest nonprofit health care system in the US
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IBM Corp. and plaintiffs challenging the legality of its pension plan agreed to a deal Wednesday that settles most claims and caps the company's potential liability at &#36;1.7 billion. The company previously had estimated a settlement could cost as much as &#36;6.5 billion.
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Outsourcing vendor Electronic Data Systems has renewed an agreement for IT services from automation and utility software company Opsware that could be worth $145 million over eight years.