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SAP: Days of the database are numbered
News A top executive at SAP has predicted the eventual demise of the database, as solutions that allow for information to be stored and accessed directly via servers and other forms of hardware begin to mature.
[October 27, 2009, 15:38]
SAP and the future of software
News In a year or two, will you still be around as SAP chief executive? Ask Henning Kagermann, chief executive of SAP, the world's largest enterprise applications maker. Kagermann, who has served as SAP's chief executive for the past six years and has...
[April 18, 2006, 14:55]
SAP seeks to expand CRM
News McDermott, a former Siebel executive whom SAP hired just five months ago, is grappling with SAP's declining sales in the United States. SAP will release mySAP CRM 4.0 in November, SAP executive board member in charge of CRM, Peter Zencke, told CNET...
[February 21, 2003, 14:02]
SAP and Microsoft unveil fruits of collaboration
News Presenting at the business software specialist's Sapphire customer conference, Shai Agassi, a member of SAP's executive board and one of its chief technologists, offered a peek at some of the benefits the enterprise-applications firm will derive...
[May 20, 2005, 9:15]
Open source firms 'to be consumed by wave of consolidation'
News A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted Wednesday. But those rivals are too immature to make it, said...
[February 16, 2006, 9:05]
SAP rules out a hosted future
News As more companies toy with the idea of having their software applications run by on-demand hosting companies, applications giant SAP has no plans to enter the hosting market, the company's chief executive said on Thursday.
[April 15, 2005, 14:45]
SAP chief looks to day after TomorrowNow
News Kagermann, chief executive of enterprise software applications giant SAP, saw his company distracted earlier this year with speculation over whether he would seek another term as chief executive, followed by the surprise announcement that Shai...
[July 6, 2007, 13:56]
SAP loses key exec Agassi
News Agassi, a relative newcomer to the company, had been viewed as a potential successor to SAP's current chief executive, Henning Kagermann. Plattner, who had passed the baton of SAP's future technology developments to Agassi four years ago, noted...
[March 29, 2007, 8:28]
Oracle witness: Microsoft 'will compete' with SAP
News It's a question of when, not if, Microsoft will compete with SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft in the market for business applications, an Accenture executive testified on Wednesday at the Oracle antitrust trial.
[June 17, 2004, 11:30]
SAP to acquire Business Objects
News The acquisition of Business Objects, a leading supplier of business intelligence software, is designed to dovetail into SAP's previously announced strategic plans to double its addressable market by 2010, Henning Kagermann, SAP's chief executive...
[October 8, 2007, 10:54]
SAP opens research labs in China and India
News The new 120-engineer centre "is designed to be a world-class software development lab, qualitatively on a par with all of our SAP Labs facilities worldwide," said Peter Zencke, the SAP executive board member responsible for SAP Labs worldwide, in...
[December 12, 2003, 14:15]
SAP sheds light on 'enterprise in a box' strategy
News Speaking at a press conference in London to announce the company's latest results, the company's chief executive, Henning Kagermann, said that the A1S launch, planned for September, was unique in the company's history and would see SAP going after...
[July 19, 2007, 15:59]
SAP and Microsoft expand Duet partnership
News Microsoft and SAP are embarking on a richer relationship with Duet 2.0 and 3.0," Leo Apotheker, SAP's deputy chief executive, said at SAP's Sapphire '07 conference. Also during the conference, Henning Kagermann, SAP's chief executive, said the...
[April 25, 2007, 9:41]
SAP to develop corporate apps for iPhone
News It's true we can already get you to SAP on mobile devices," John Chen, chairman, chief executive and president of Sybase, said during a press conference in New York City. Bill McDermott, president of Global Field Operations for SAP and a member of...
[March 12, 2009, 7:58]
SAP admits 'inappropriate' Oracle downloads
News We regret very much that this occurred," said Henning Kagermann, chief executive officer of SAP AG. However, to try to ensure compliance with appropriate business practices at TomorrowNow in future, SAP said it had appointed SAP America's chief...
[July 3, 2007, 14:19]
Dell sees profits in SAP's software
News We believe and expect that over the next two years…we can more than triple our share of the market for SAP installations, growing it to more than a billion-dollar market for Dell," Dell chief executive Michael Dell said on Wednesday.
[April 29, 2004, 8:55]
SAP denies reducing SaaS investment
News Asked about the company's plans for this market during a press meeting on Monday at the SAP Sapphire 2008 conference in Berlin, co-chief executive Leo Apotheker said: "Let's start by getting some facts straight.
[May 20, 2008, 8:47]
SAP optimises its software for Suse servers
News Customers want choice and, since most of them run heterogeneous IT environments, using both open source and commercial software, we recognise the need to make service and support as smooth as possible," said Gerhard Oswald, an executive board...
[May 16, 2007, 18:04]
SAP, Siebel rivalry heats up
News Kemna had been named chief executive of SAP America in April 2000, taking over from then-chief executive Kevin McKay, who held the position for just a year. Also on Wednesday, Reuters reported that SAP would announce on Thursday a shake-up of its...
[May 23, 2002, 11:57]
Salesforce attacks SAP over delayed SaaS rollout
News The reality is that you have to look at so many things.whether TCO [total cost of ownership] will rise, whether you have the right user interface, and so on," Claus E Heinrich, a member of SAP's executive board, told ZDNet Asia Tuesday on the...
[May 21, 2008, 9:46]
