SAP christens its hosted ERP suite Business ByDesign
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InfoWorld - SAP has christened its&#160;suite of hosted ERP software&#160;for the midmarket SAP Business ByDesign and said it will be available initially in the U.S. and Germany, with the U.K., France and China to follow soon after.
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Hosted CRM service provider Salesforce.com took another step forward last week in its strategy to build an online ecosystem of vendors that offer software as a service.
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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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Rexam (NASDAQ:REXMY), the world&#39;s largest manufacturer of beverage cans, with an output of 55bn units a year, is an enthusiastic user of SAP&#39;s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. It has it installed in 52 of its 90 factories worldwide. Too enthusiastic, some might say.
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One company sees a shift in business software habits, right before its eyes.
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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.
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TechWeb - Despite soaring interest in software-as-a-service, SAP&#39;s new product is aimed at companies with less than 500 employees.
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SAP on Wednesday introduced a long-delayed line of Web-based business management software for mid-sized companies.
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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 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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SAP AG  on Wednesday  introduced a long-delayed line of Web-based business management  software for mid-sized companies, which is at the heart of a  strategy to accelerate the company's sales and compete in the  Internet software arena where smaller rivals are ahead.
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SAP reported a 10 percent rise in revenue for the fourth quarter, but earnings fell 6 percent compared to a year earlier, dragged down in part by the cost of&#160;launching Business ByDesign, a new offering for the mid-market, the company said Wednesday.Revenue for the fourth quarter totalled &#8364;3.24 billion ($4.77 billion as of Dec. 31, the last day of the period reported), up 10 percent from &#8364;2.95 billion a year earlier, but net income fell 6 percent to &#8364;756 million.Software and related services revenue grew at 13 percent year on year, while consulting activities, representing around a fifth of SAP&#39;s revenue, remained stagnant.For the full year, revenue rose to &#8364;10.25 billion, up 9 percent from &#8364;9.39 billion, while net income rose to &#8364;1.92 billion, up 3 percent from &#8364;1.87 billion.The results do not include any revenue gains from&#160;SAP&#39;s $6.8 billion acquisition of&#160;business intelligence software vendor Business Objects, which the companies only completed on Jan. 16, 2008, although they do include &#8364;61 million in acquisition-related costs.SAP&#39;s operating margin for the year fell from 27.4 percent in 2006 to 26.7 percent in 2007, but if the effects of exchange rate fluctuations and the company&#39;s investment in Business ByDesign were excluded, the operating margin would have risen to 28.2 percent, Chief Financial Officer Werner Brandt said in a conference call.Developing Business ByDesign cost the company &#8364;125 million in 2007, &#8364;40 million of it in the fourth quarter, and the company expects to spend at least a further &#8364;175 million in 2008. An additional &#8364;50 million of expenditure will fall in late 2008 or early 2009.Sales and related services for subscription-based products like the new ByDesign contributed just &#8364;53 million in the fourth quarter, up 47 percent year on year.Looking ahead, CEO Henning Kagermann expects mid-market products like ByDesign to boost growth in 2008, he said during the conference call.Another growth driver will be SAP&#39;s acquisition of Business Objects, which will help the company increase its penetration of the business user sector, Kagermann said.SAP expects full-year revenue from software and software-related services to grow at between 24 percent and 27 percent. Excluding the contribution of Business Objects, SAP&#39;s existing activities will contribute between 12 and 14 percentage points, the company said.
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SAP on Tuesday gave employees a heads up that its business user organization will move over to Business Objects, a company its acquiring as part of a $6.8 billion acquisition, according to sources.
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Sybase later this year will ship PowerDesigner 11.0, an enterprise data modeling tool for building or re-engineering business processes and aligning business and IT goals, according to the company.
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SaaS buddies EMC may partner with German software giant SAP to develop a suite of web hosted storage and application services.â¦
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German business software firm SAP AG unveiled new enterprise software aimed at information workers during its TechEd developer conference in Las Vegas.  SAP Enterprise Search goes much "deeper" than ordinary text-based search engine, claimed officials at the Waldorf-based firm.
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Software maker is ready with a test version of its server software for running business phone systems.