It has custom-built a warehouse-shipping app for the iPad using the Sybase Unwired Platform that connects to its SAP-based data.
And medical researchers could aggregate cancer data, helping to find new treatments, according to an SAP-sponsored Big Data report by Washington D.
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He mentioned Ultimate Software Group in a research note as a potential name to consider among publicly traded HCM companies, in light of the SAP-Successfactors acquisition.
Another company that could be dinged by a U.S. slump, paradoxically, is the German software vendor SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ).
Other firms could also tender offers for BEA, including SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
Forrester analyst George Lawrie said during the SAP-sponsored radio show last week that 74% of corporate information workers use two or more devices for work, with 52% using three or more.
In effect, giant IBM hopes this loosely allied swarm will overwhelm application offerings from the likes of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), Oracle and SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ).
Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco Thursday, alleging that rival SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) is stealing software and confidential materials as part of an effort to offer "cut-rate" support services to Oracle's customers.
" SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) acknowledged that some inappropriate downloads of fixes and support documents occurred at TomorrowNow, " SAP said in a press release of its Texas-based unit, which focuses on customer support and is authorized to download certain materials from Oracle's (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) Web site.
Oracle has been selling application suites for several years, but now it is adding the capability to tie its suite into applications from competitors like Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ), Siebel Systems (nasdaq: SEBL - news - people ) and PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ).
Responding to charges filed by Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) in U.S. federal court in late March, SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) Chief Executive Henning Kagermann acknowledged Tuesday that TomorrowNow, a subsidiary of the business software specialist, had "inappropriately" downloaded software patches and support documents from rival Oracle--while expressing dismay that Ellison chose to take his beef to U.S. federal courts.
In 2010, working together with our development organization we delivered world-class showcases featuring the Sybase Unwired Platform, SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA), Enterprise Workspaces, Duet Enterprise, SAP NetWeaver 7.3, Aurora, Carbon Impact 5.0, as well as SAP StreamWork Enterprise Edition.
The other three donors, including SAP co-founder Dietmar Hopp, had fallen out of the ranks due to their generosity.
For these reasons, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner does not appear alongside his former partners, Dietmar Hopp and Klaus Tschira.
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For others that need to focus only on the big picture, like SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, that would be irrelevant data and information overload.
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We are also currently using SAP In-Memory Computing technology to offer our marketing and sales organizations real-time insight into the marketing funnel and sales pipeline.
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Highest ranked European tech exec: SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner.
Others play along better: In a 2001 concert, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner got to play guitar on a blues song during a sound check with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
In his book, Business Process Management: The SAP Roadmap, SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe says, based on research, that standard software covers about 20 percent of the processes in any given business.
All the major vendors- SAP, Oracle, IBM, and Computer Associates- have software that automates common problems that many companies face.
The Microsoft-SAP revelations are the latest twist in Oracle's year-old attempt to acquire Peoplesoft, now ranked as one of the most bitterly fought takeover battles of recent years.
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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It pulls that data down from a speedy SAP Hana in-memory database.
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Immersed in reinvention for the past few years, SAP has rejected the status quo with solutions like SAP HANA in-memory computing.
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Part of the plan to create this better product experience involves opening up SAP to lighter-weight protocols that are more forgiving of distributed applications, including REST and OData, giving customers the freedom to quickly decide an application would be better run as a service, in the cloud, or exposed through a Facebook widget.
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Arch-rival SAP broke that rule, and it looks like Ellison is going to make the company pay--in public humiliation if nothing else.
These feature-and-function freaks are all loyal customers of Apple and Oracle and SAP and Taleo and Harley-Davidson and Boeing and Mattel and Avon and SAS and Deere and ten thousand other brands.
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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He also found SAP to be cost-effective with licensing and support infrastructure in place.
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