SAP presents new capabilities for Netweaver
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SAP AG announced two updates to the Master Data Management (MDM) component of its NetWeaver integration and application platform on Tuesday. The updates, which will appear by the end of the year, are designed to make it easier to synchronize data between different systems. Two other new NetWeaver enhancements, faster searching of corporate data and more robust handling of errors in Java applications, will only appear in the next release of NetWeaver, planned for 2005, the company said at the SAP TechEd conference in San Diego.
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A major facelift and a lot of great new functionality!  The Sugar Team is excited to bring you the 2.0 release.  As you can see, hiring a UI engineer has taken the application to a whole new level of usability and appeal.  Who else has a pink UI?  We're also pleased to bring you the Leads module and significant improvements to the Contact module with vCard support and a simplified way of entering a contact, account and appointment in the single "Create from Business Card" screen.   You can send us an email any time with your feedback at contact@sugarcrm.com.  Our goal continues to be to build the sales automation system that you have always wanted, so your input is vital.  Check out http://www.sugarcrm.com for more details on the latest product roadmap, support forums, detailed product information and much more.  We hope you find this a useful tool for building your business.  Enjoy!  The Sugar Team    -=Included Features=- An overview of the features in this release.   Leads New to 2.0, put standardized processes into practice to make sure all sales reps use the same, consistent lead qualification methodology. With the click of a button, quickly turn leads into opportunities. With the Sugar Sales Leads module, you can also easily manage rented lists and prospect data separate from your customer data.  Import and Export Import contacts and accounts from CSV (comma separated values) files.  Users can also easily export data from the system to CSV files.  Opportunities Sugar Sales provides a complete, yet easy-to-use Opportunities module.  From deal size to each contactâs role, from listing the competitors to tracking the lead source, sales reps can easily manage each sales opportunity to completion.    Accounts & Contacts With the Accounts & Contacts module, you can easily enter and update key account and contact information. Tracking and staying in touch with your customers is simply a click away.   Activity & Task Management Managing your customer interactions is at the heart of a sales automation application. Sugar Sales provides a simple and clean set of tools for quickly tracking tasks, phone calls, emails and meetings.   Notes & Attachments Easily keep notes on every contact, opportunity or account. New to v1.5, add file attachments to notes.    Home Screen  Focus on the right activities with a quick view of your top opportunities, pipeline, today's appointments and task list.  Dashboard  A picture is always worth a thousand words.  With the dashboard module, you can graphically view how your opportunities breakdown by sales stage or industry.  New to v1.5, you can customize the charts to display the data you want.  Administration  Easily manage all the users in the system, their passwords, user interface themes and more.    -=Future Planned Features=- What we're working on next.   Internationalization  Support for local and localized date and time display.   Accounts & Contacts Easily sync customer contact information between Sugar Sales and MS Outlook and Palm devices.   Activity & Task Management Plug-ins for PDAs and email applications that deliver a best-in-class open source solution for tracking key customer information in your PDA quickly and easily.  Notes & Attachments Ability to enter HTML notes. Also provide for full-text searching across text or HTML notes as well as most file attachments.  Dashboard  More dashboard charts including the ability to customize the charts by time ranges, deal size and more.   The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=107819&package_id=116411
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SAP acquired Norwegian software company iLytix Systems earlier this month in a move aimed at introducing a new business intelligence (BI) tool to its small business product suite, Business One. The tool, XL Reporter, enables Business One users to export data to Microsoft's Excel program without having to reformat each report. It also allows them to create new financial and business reports or modify existing ones, schedule reports for automatic delivery, and create "what if" scenarios quickly with new point-and-click and drag-and-drop features.
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(InfoWorld) - SAP continued to ramp up its on-demand CRM offering this week, announcing that it will now include service-level capabilities, the third key component of CRM solutions. In February SAP kicked off its software as a service business with a sales force automation solution. In May the company added marketing, and in its third update within the year it is now announcing SAP Service. Liz Herbert, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, said that the SAP CRM solution is now displaying the kind of depth SAP is known for. "SAP added a component for managing products that many on-demand CRM vendors don't have. You can use it as the product master or bring in the product master which is typically found in the ERP system," said Herbert. The new service component includes Service Ticket Management, Rule-based Service Ticket Distribution, and Service Level Monitoring. Also included is a rules-base service-level determination calculator that automates the routing of service tickets based on a customer's service level agreement, said Angela Bandlow, vice president at CRM Solutions Marketing. "It's a tiered service that tracks SLAs based on the customer and the required response time," said Bandlow. One of the key differentiators for the SAP offering, according to both Bandlow and Forrester's Herbert, is its ability to integrate easily with MySAP ERP systems on the back end. Using product information found in the ERP system, a sales person can pull up manufacturing availability and pricing information and deliver a quote in real time online. Bandlow said while this completes the three major components of SAP CRM OnDemand, quarterly updates can be expected with the next update due in December. To date, the solution, like almost all on-demand solutions, is not industry-specific. But Bandlow said the company is looking at that and will respond to customer demand.
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Rivals F5 Networks and Redline Networks are announcing new Web-enabled application delivery tools that are designed to accelerate data processing by shifting workloads off of servers.
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InfoWorld - Business software vendor SAP has added an offering to its growing suite of quickly deployable applications aimed at helping businesses manage specific tasks across diverse industries.
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A new product lets workers combine simple bits of software to create business tools.
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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday plans to make available a connector kit that allows users to easily link Microsoft's Office Project Server 2003 with SAP AG's ERP (enterprise resource planning) products.
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(InfoWorld) - Delivering on a promise made earlier this year, SAP has unveiled the first set of products to help businesses meet their compliance requirements, in addition to announcing a marketing agreement with Cisco Systems. The three new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) applications, based on SAP's new SOA (service-oriented architecture), offer companies help with repository, process control, and risk management functions, the Walldorf, Germany, company said Wednesday. In May, SAP announced theÂ creation of a new GRC business unitÂ at its Sapphire customer event in Orlando. The unit was set up to develop new technology to help companies meet a growing list of compliance requirements, such as the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations for pharmaceutical companies, and Basel II regulations for the banking sector. The SAP GRC Repository application documents and maintains GRC information in a single central system, including corporate policies and regulations, and will also store and link risk and control libraries to multiple control frameworks and international regulations. The centralization of GRC information simplifies risk management, increases transparency and cuts costs associated with GRC initiatives, according to SAP. SAP GRC Process Control is designed to automatically aggregate business process risks for the entire company, provide supporting evidence of compliance and pinpoint control violations so that corrective action can be given a priority. The software integrates automated control monitoring for SAP and non-SAP applications. To help customers implement collaborative risk management processes, the SAP GRC Risk Management application provides a thorough analysis of key business risks at multiple levels of the company, across organization entities, business process and IT infrastructure, according to SAP. It is designed to help professional risk managers and company owners identify financial, legal and operational risks, analyze business opportunities in light of these and develop appropriate responses. SAP will sell all three products separately. The repository and process control applications will ship Nov. 30, with the risk management software product to follow in December. In addition, SAP has signed a joint marketing agreement with Cisco that will target GRC business processes and IT control issues across the entire IT infrastructure, including the network and application layers. Under the agreement, targeted at the U.S. and Canada, the companies will collaborate in sales and marketing activities, and provide complementary products that offer new levels of IT management and controls between Cisco's service-oriented network architecture (SONA) and SAP's three new GRC applications. Further information about the products isÂ available here.
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Systinet, Amazon, and Altova this week are announcing tools geared toward development of Web services, e-commerce, and XML applications, respectively.
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SAP is buying a small Indian software company to help beef up the business process management capabilities in its NetWeaver applications platform.
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SAP on Wednesday unveiled a service, SAP Security Optimization, that offers automated security-configuration checks for customers&#39; software.
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SAP has acquired Norweigan software startup iLytix Systems, which makes a reporting and budgeting tool, and will use its technology in a new version of SAP's Business One applications suite that was announced Wednesday.
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Macromedia has launched Flex Builder, a development tool for its Flex application-development platform. The new tool will help speed creation of rich Internet applications, including visual data
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FRANKFURT/BOSTON  - SAP AG  will unveil  on Wednesday a line of business management programs to be  delivered over the Web, becoming the first major software  company to make a big bet on software as a service.
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New products and services include the 'one-stop-shop' Lotus Foundations and a partnership with SAP.
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The company expands its server software for creating slick interfaces for Web applications.