SAP, German Software Giant, Admits to Illicit Downloads
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The company said a subsidiary had improperly obtained documents from its archrival Oracle but disputed the extent of the offense.
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Anti-spyware company had granted another company rights to its software.
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Malware arrives in German spam that claims to contain an update from Microsoft.
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OCTOBER 05, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - German business software vendor SAP AG and chip maker Infineon Technologies AG today launched a new software management system for connecting radio frequency identification hardware and software from multiple vendors.
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(InfoWorld) - In a move to strengthen its portfolio of analytic applications, SAP has agreed to acquire privately held Pilot Software, a maker of strategy management software based in Mountain View, California. SAP intends to integrate Pilot Software's core product, the business analytic application PilotWorks, into its suite of business software products that run on the NetWeaver integration platform, the Walldorf, Germany, company said Tuesday. No financial details were disclosed. In earlier interviews, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said the company would make "fill-in" acquisitions in areas where it needed to "generate innovative add-on products around ... core products." Kagermann said "analytic capabilities are part of end-to-end business processes" and referred to embedded analytics as "the future." The Pilotworks application provides analytic tools for executives to manage goals and initiatives more effectively and bring structure and consistency to regularly scheduled operational review processes.
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With Business Objects now a division of SAP, the companies have announced software packages that combine products from the two.
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Two new investigations Siemens has revealed that it is under investigation by the US Department of Justice over allegations that it paid out some â¬420m in bribes to help it secure telecoms contracts outside of Germany.â¦
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InfoWorld - Responding to a&#160;lawsuit filed by Oracle&#160;earlier this year, SAP admitted on Tuesday that its TomorrowNow division in the U.S. made some &quot;inappropriate downloads&quot; from an Oracle Web site but said SAP never had access to the material.
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NOVEMBER 12, 2004 (REUTERS) - In a joint operation, Greek and British police have cracked a multimillion-dollar illegal software sales ring, arresting two people and seizing thousands of pirated high-tech software programs.
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German business software vendor SAP AG released a new version of its SAP Business One software with several functions designed for small and medium-size manufacturers.
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SAP AG , the world's largest maker of business-management software, said it made "inappropriate" downloads of Oracle Corp. documents, responding to a lawsuit that claims the German company stole files from the competitor.
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SHENZHEN, China  - More than $500 million worth of  pirated software, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec  products, has been seized in a long-running joint probe by  Chinese police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation,  officials from both countries said on Tuesday.
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SAP AG this week unveiled a service that evaluates security settings across a customer&#39;s SAP enterprise system. SAP Security Optimization helps customers identify and fix vulnerabilities, and minimise the
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Whether it amounts to "corporate espionage" or not (most likely not), the case of Oracle v. SAP may have significant ramifications on how the world's leading information providers guard their information systems. In his company's defense this morning, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann admitted to reporters that, while an SAP division did download some material from Oracle inappropriately, the material was for the division's customers and not for SAP customers or SAP.
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Users hope SAP AG's admission that it inappropriately downloaded proprietary technical data from Oracle databases won't hurt the vendor in the long run.
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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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A court found a German software dealer guilty of counterfeiting Microsoft products, and sentenced him to three years in prison, authorities said Wednesday.