"SAP is trying to project the image of being an innovative company, " says SAP's Mr. Giampaglia.
In addition, SAP customers have used Google Maps with SAP data anytime they wanted to.
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Through an emphasis on the buyer experience, SAP marketing programs have become as innovative as SAP solutions.
Small business owners in developing markets and SAP employees are learning this firsthand through SAP social sabbaticals.
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Instead, what struck me was that Box.net included two key strategic investors: Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) Ventures.
The combatants include biggies like IBM (NYSE:IBM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) and SAP (NYSE:SAP).
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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Samsung SDS is also teaming with SAP to bring SAP Business Suite software and Samsung Mobile Sales Force Automation to businesses.
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The strategic partnership will allow NetSuite customers to deal with their on-premise software solutions, such as from Oracle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP).
Keep in mind that there are roughly 40, 000 enterprises across the globe, which primarily use legacy technologies from Oracle and SAP (NYSE:SAP).
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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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Our biggest success through this program has been our upgrade to version 7.0 of the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application.
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Paul Sammons, Senior SAP Business Analyst and Wireless Goods Movements Project Lead for Baylor refers to SAP communities first before opening a support ticket.
In a recent interview, Eric Duffaut, President SAP Global Ecosystem and Channels, explained that SAP has realized that its historically insular culture needs some tempering.
In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice has requested that SAP and TomorrowNow provide certain documents, and SAP said it plans to cooperate with the request.
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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If you are an executive paying a hefty bill for SAP, it may be time to reopen the conversation with your SAP experts about what is possible.
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.
Another company that could be dinged by a U.S. slump, paradoxically, is the German software vendor SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ).
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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They will not believe that SAP wants to make them rich, only that SAP wants more software license revenue in return for a few crumbs left on the table.
Sanjay Poonen, President and Corporate Officer responsible for SAP Global Solutions and the head of the Mobile Division, sees unique opportunities for SAP and its customers to drive change.
The first results were already visible this year when SAP announced a 1% increase in female managers over the same period one year ago in the SAP Sustainability Report 2011.
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.
Other firms could also tender offers for BEA, including SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
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.
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