Native Americans introduced the sap of the spruce tree to early European settlers in New England.
To deserve the name, it must be distilled only from the sap of the Mexican blue agave plant.
Mayans chewed on the sap of the sapodilla tree and called it chicle.
Unlike other gums that contain petrochemicals the natural gum is produced from the sap of the chicozapote tree found in the Mexican rainforest, a spokesman for Chicza told CNN.
Oracle President Charles Phillips, who grew to know Hukku over eight months of meal conversations, says the acquisition is a strategic step to build strength in vertical markets in the ongoing war with archrival SAP of Germany.
Modern economists have raised similar concerns about today's redistributive welfare states: by subtracting from the rewards of work and adding to the consolations of idleness, social transfers sap economies of their vigour.
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Under the deal announced last week, Google is going to support SAP Business Analytics use of Google Maps as part of all different types of SAP applications.
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Understanding these two dimensions is critical to the business success of SAP, especially in light of the massive innovations in our technology offerings the past 24 months, including mobility, in-memory, and cloud.
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.
It takes more than 100 gallons of birch sap to produce one gallon of syrup, compared with a 40:1 ratio for maple syrup.
And it has the backing of SAP, which is using it to build all of the 30-some enterprise mobile apps it expects to release in the next half year.
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Duffaut said that these co-development and co-innovation processes are key to the consumerization of SAP, which is the only way that SAP will expand its reach to meet its goal of 1 billion users.
Microsoft shares have gone nowhere for ten years, amid growing concerns that the rise of tablets, smartphones and cloud computing will sap the power of Windows and Office.
Nonetheless, whenever discussions are being held about the cloud, the company seems to remain in the shadows of Salesforce.com and to a lesser extent SAP , both of which have opened their wallets to scoop up names such as Buddy Media and Ariba respectively.
If the population of mites in a hive is left unchecked they can sap the strength of workers, making them much more susceptible to viruses, disease and other debilitating conditions.
As an extension of the SAP Runs SAP program, we were one of the first enterprises to globally introduce iPad, and now with over 2, 000 in use we are one of the leading organizations using it as a business tool.
Shlomit Gruman-Navot, head of HR for SAP in the emerging markets of EMEA, sums it up in a nutshell.
With support of the UNESCO office in Phnom Penh, and with the objective to raise awareness on the unique flora of the Tonle Sap Lake among Cambodians as well as visitors to Prek Toal, Osmose has produced a poster set on the flooded forest and plants of the Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve.
Dennis Howlett, Jon Reed, and others in the SAP community have long been arguing for better programs to help educate and certify the quality of SAP professionals.
The product is FORBES BrandVoice, one of the leading solutions in the hot new world of native advertising, or content marketing, or whatever you want to call it ( SAP was one of our first partners, launching its page in November 2010).
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For example, our global, single-instance ERP system runs 53 country payrolls on the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution and our SAP NetWeaver Portal supports over 2 million members of the SAP Community Network.
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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Someday, any one of them could become a multinational corporation like SAP, creating thousands of jobs and supporting the global economy in countless ways.
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Lots of SAP customers are now Oracle customers because they were running Siebel or PeopleSoft.
Inevitably, bad inflation and high interest rates sap the spirits of businesses and consumers.
The empire: Owns 23% of SAP, whose profits and sales climbed 63% last year.
So, social media, broadly defined, is wired into the DNA of SAP Community Network.
Exclusion from power begins to sap the motivation of even the most ardent of parties.
Much of the uniqueness that enabled companies to differentiate themselves was squeezed out in the name of SAP.
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