At that July 2011 board meeting Box already offered a better mobile experience than anything Oracle, SAP or Microsoft offered.
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It is big news when SAP or any large company can overcome its cultural barriers and do what makes sense without some painful prompting.
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While these might seem minuscule or insignificant figures in comparison to the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, SAP or Infosys, this still represents considerable success.
Bloomberg raises that possibility this morning in a highly speculative piece, suggesting that Jive could draw takeover interest from SAP or Oracle, among others.
This means that investors in 1990 had less than a 0.5% chance of picking either SAP or Oracle as the ultimate winners in the space.
Every time an SAP or Oracle application was sold, every time a server was sold by Dell or Hewlett Packard, every time a major consulting product was sold by IBM, Accenture, or Capgemini, Whitehurst wants Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its other products in the mix.
But, if you talk to companies that have gone through the process of becoming SAP partners in order to resell SAP products or to allow SAP to sell their products, you find two complaints.
In the end we narrowed our choices down to either SAP ECC or Microsoft Dynamics AX.
According to Korten, this provides business opportunities for independent developers and SAP partners: adapters that connect 3rd-party medical server applications and databases to the SAP Mobility middleware, or other mHealth apps that rely on SAP Mobility middleware to tie into multiple back-end data sources.
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Is SAP an outlier or a harbinger of things to come for others, and namely its main rival Oracle?
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If ManyEyes is a build-your-own kit car, then business intelligence platforms such as IBM Cognos, or SAP BusinessObjects are the Rolls-Royces of data analysis and visualization.
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With 10, 000 iPads and 4, 000 iPhones in use internally, SAP has deployed, or is in the process of deploying, 28 business apps to different teams inside SAP.
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This means that whatever your image is of these giant corporations as great technical innovators, the closest analogy to IBM, SAP and Oracle is not Apple or Intel.
The SAP Influencer Summit will attract 200 or so of the most important tech industry analysts to Santa Clara, Calif. next week, along with a larger group watching the live streams from afar.
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Or my employer, SAP, which has adopted Genius Bars instead of traditional IT helpdesks to help workers pick the right mobile device.
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The final panelist was SAP vice president Scott Bolick who cited examples of a few companies using SAP sustainability tools that have saved tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in energy usage.
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Large companies run their businesses using enterprise resource planning, or ERP, from firms such as SAP (SAP) and Oracle (ORCL).
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For example, a third party may provide a Snap in the SnapStore that allows you to connect to SalesForce, SAP, Oracle, Twitter, Facebook, or common data feeds from other sources, such as stock prices or geo-spatial data.
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By that he means SAP faces competition either from Oracle for its large accounts or from NetSuite in smaller ones.
Today, an impressive 51% of employees use mobile devices at Cisco (sad to say, that may top SAP, which has 40% of workers carrying iPads or iPhones).
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In its filing, Oracle contends that users logging in from Internet addresses associated with rival SAP's subsidiary TomorrowNow used account information from former or soon-to-be former Oracle customers to download software patches, technical information and other materials.
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Lots of SAP customers are now Oracle customers because they were running Siebel or PeopleSoft.
Less convincing or just bad timing, perhaps was SAP's plan to increase software-maintenance fees, starting this month.
Or if you want to learn more about how SAP is building its own secure, enterprise-friendly alternative to DropBox, read here.
It notes companies such as Porsche, Ericsson, Bayerische Motoren Werke, or BMW, Volkswagen, Siemens and technology company SAP fit into this category.
If voters nationwide continue to feel that the economy remains under water or even is worsening, the collective anxiety could well sap President Obama of the turnout enthusiasm he will require to keep his job, regardless of what polls say about voter opinion in swing states right now.
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But the new threat is the ability to transform that creature into images of our own choosing, without regard to whether the new creature is going to be an improvement, or whether these so-called improvements are going to sap all of the energies of the soul that make for human aspirations, art, science and care for the less fortunate.
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