CA picks SAP for ERP rollout
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Computer Associates International (CA) has selected SAPÂ as its vendor for a new ERP (enterprise resource planning) system to replace a collection of homegrown accounting systems. Services firm AccentureÂ will assist with the implementation, CA said Wednesday.
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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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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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CA's latest acquisition target rolls out a new version of its identity and access management software.
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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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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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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.
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SAP AG unveils a service that evaluates security settings across a customer&#39;s SAP enterprise system. SAP AG on Wednesday unveiled a service that evaluates security settings across a customer&#39;s SAP enterprise system.
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SAP has unwrapped a new on-demand business software platform targeted at midsize companies (100 to 500 employees) looking to simplify their I.T. requirements while improving the efficiency and flexibility of their business processes.
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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.
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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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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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(InfoWorld) - While software vendor CA is pretty happy with theÂ financial performanceÂ of three-quarters of its business, its storage management operations are not up to par, according to executives. CA sees storage management as one of the company's four main business pillars, the other three being enterprise systems management, security, and business services optimization. All four form part of CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM), the vendor's road map to both simplify and more tightly integrate all of its software products. CA is "not satisfied" with sales growth in its storage management business, John Swainson, the company's president and CEO, said Thursday during a conference call to discuss the vendor's third-quarter results for fiscal 2007. In particular, he blamed CA's indirect sales channel which the company is already taking steps to revise and rebuild, after bringing in new management last year. Swainson, who's very much a glass half-full kind of a guy, said he's optimistic that CA's storage business will turn around, perhaps before the close of fiscal 2007. He pointed to a string of purchases designed to fill in the spaces in CA's storage offerings, the most recent of which was theÂ July purchaseÂ of continuous data protection technology vendor XOsoft. CA's not the only one struggling with its storage business. Rival SymantecÂ recentlyÂ announced poor third-quarter fiscal resultsÂ in that sector of its business which it acquired through the 2005Â purchase of Veritas. As in previous financial quarters, CA's overall focus remains realignment of its sales force around the world, cost reduction and implementing new business processes, Swainson said. Nancy Cooper, chief financial officer at CA, gave an update on the vendor's implementation of SAP's enterprise applications which it sees as crucial in its ongoing transformation. CA went live with SAP's financial applications in April in the U.S. and at the end of October it got the U.S. services operation deployed on the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software. The process was "difficult both from the process and systems point of view," she said. Given the complexity of the implementation, that experience wasn't surprising, Cooper added. CA plans to roll out SAP's applications to the rest of its global operation in 2008. "We'll go step by step on this thing," she said. CA's troubled past continues to bubble up to the surface. Two more former executives wereÂ recently sentencedÂ in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, for their roles in a massive securities fraud which took place at the company several years ago. The fraud involved the false reporting of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue before licensing agreements were finalized to bolster quarterly financial results. Earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge I. Leo Glasser sentenced David Kaplan, CA's former senior vice president of finance and administration, to six months of home detention. Last week, the same judge sentenced Ira Zar, CA's former CFO, to seven months in prison and seven months of home detention. In November, Judge Glasser sentenced CA's former CEO Sanjay Kumar toÂ 12 years in prisonÂ and a $8 million fine, while codefendant Stephen Richards, the ex-head of worldwide sales at CA, later received a seven-year jail term. Â
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(InfoWorld) - AmberPoint on Tuesday will extend its Web services and SOA management system to SAP's NetWeaver business process platform and services based on the ABAP (Advanced Business Application Program) programming language. Through a Development Cooperation Agreement, AmberPoint SOA Management System will provide performance analysis and debugging in the application development stage, quality assurance during staging, and application-level visibility, said Ed Horst, vice president of marketing at AmberPoint. With SAP getting ready to release application components as Web services, AmberPoint is looking to offer management of SAP-based Web services and visibility into ABAP as well, Horst said. "This [arrangement] provides management for those services and a heterogeneous environment around it," Horst said. Organizations using Web services running on NetWeaver will have out-of-the-box integration capabilities with the AmberPoint management platform. Visibility and control will be provided across heterogeneous application networks, including Java and ABAP Web services on NetWeaver. "The major benefit [of the integration] is SOA has lots of pieces to it and SAP will be large part of the landscape, and our job -- our mandate -- is to provide out-of-the-box management for as much of the SOA environment as possible," Horst said. The company's AmberPoint for SAP package will provide an interface between AmberPoint and SAP. With the AmberPoint deal, SAP gets visibility into the larger SOA environment, said analyst Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director at Burton Group. The deal represents a big win for AmberPoint because SAP traditionally never makes deals with little companies, Manes said. SAP likely has been finding AmberPoint in accounts and is getting word from customers, she said. "Custom integration between AmberPoint and NetWeaver will ensure a turnkey SOA management solution for the SAP environment that seamlessly integrates with other SOA environments," Manes said. "I see no downside to this partnership for AmberPoint, SAP, or their respective customers," Manes said. AmberPoint can interface with NetWeaver now; an extension for ABAP is due by the end of 2006. AmberPoint's announcement is being made at the SAP TechEd '06 conference in Las Vegas. SAP officials could not be reached for comment on Monday. InfoWorldEditor-at-Large Eric Knorr contributed to this report
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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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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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ERP and CRM suite, including eCommerce, inventory, warehouse, order, customer management, general ledger, MRP, POS. Database independent service-oriented architecture (SOA).   The opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM application suite released version 1.0.0 Preview 5 today.  There have been over 1,300 commits since the release of Preview 4 at the end of July.  Significant enhancements include:  * Integration of Pentaho business intelligence suite into opentaps for integrated reporting * Integration of newer JasperReports modules * Ebay and Amazon.com order integration * Support for paychecks and payroll features * Integrated postal address validation in CRM module and support for bulk postal mailing labels * New Ajax pagination tool * Screens for customer, commission, and vendor agreements and contracts * Cash drawer for tracking cash transactions * Credit limits feature * Improvements throughout the order entry, warehouse, and purchasing applications.  In addition, an online manual for opentaps is now available at:  http://www.opentaps.org/docs  As opentaps 1.0.0 is still under active development, all users and developers should use subversion's svn update to stay up to date.   opentaps is an open source Java ERP and CRM system which is compatible with Windows and Linux and all major databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MS SQL Server.  opentaps can be downloaded from SourceForge.net at:  http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=145855