SAP announced today its intent to acquire datango AG, which provides workforce performance support software. SAP intends to acquire both the software and the company’s assets. SAP aims to use the acquisition to bolster its education-related offerings. “The workforce performance …

Google and SAP announced a partnership today at the AlwaysOn Summit. This will allow customers to pair SAP enterprise analytics with Google Maps and Google Earth in what the companies call an “industry-first collaboration to help customers tackle ‘big data’ …

Oracle is reportedly being awarded $1.3 Billion from SAP, as the result of a jury’s verdict following an 11-day trial. The case dates back to 2007 when Orcale sued SAP for illegal downloading of its software for resale to Oracle customers, by TommorowNow, a company SAP acquired in 2005. 

HP named Léo Apotheker, formerly CEO of SAP, as its new CEO to replace the recently ousted Mark Hurd. Apotheker will also join HP’s Board of Directors. 

Lead by Sue Bohle – a few friends on the panel, including Brian Solis and John Earnhardt of Cisco. Eastman Kodak, SAP, PRWeb and BlogAds were also part of the panel.

SAP subsidiary TommorowNow is in trouble. A lot of it. In a late-night announcement, seemingly designed to be lost among the boom of Independence Day fireworks, SAP admitted TN had inappropriately downloaded files from its competitor Oracle.

Feed surfing the other night, I came across a rumour indicating that Oracle could potentially take over SAP in this article – Oracle Bid Rumour boosts SAP shares.

Ogilvy North America is partnering with Technorati to offer clients blogs, vlogs, videos, photos, and other online user-generated media. The hope is for their clients to better understand the blogosphere and improve in building their brands.

Corporations are always in search of the most effective mechanism for both acquiring and selling goods as well as services at very minimum total cost over the Internet.

Inadequate “as is” documentation

Consider that you are the implementation Project Manager for a consulting firm and you have a client who has selected an ERP system.

Blackboards are being phased out – whiteboards are the standard teaching tool in classrooms these days. The Blackboard company is keeping up with the times, though, and making powerful friends. Earlier this morning, Blackboard announced new “partner initiatives” with Google, and yesterday, it formed a “global agreement” with SAP.

Feeling cocky about Oracle’s blowout quarter, CEO Larry Ellison outlined in a conference call last night, in no uncertain terms, the reasons SAP sucks and why it should be more like Oracle. SAP responded this morning with an I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I press release.

Corporations are always in search of the most effective mechanism for both acquiring and selling goods as well as services at very minimum total cost over the Internet.

The audio from my interview Monday with Shai Agassi, one of seven people on SAP’s executive board, is now up on Podtech.

Jeff Nolan has moved on from SAP. He has really served as a model to follow for others working in a large company that hope to move it forward.

Enterprise resource planning firm SAP picked up a deal with holding company Philadelphia Newspapers LLC to provide mySAP ERP for its print media companies.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has become the first Asian consulting company that SAP AG considers a global partner for services. Together, the two corporations will help businesses shift to SAP’s web-based applications.

News on Applications Unlimited – Oracle’s plan to enhance JD Edwards, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Siebel applications on an on-going basis.

SAP AG has made public the first on-demand/on-premise customer relationship management (CRM) suite. Dubbed SAP CRM 2006s, the software was announced at SAPPHIRE ’06, the company’s international customer conference.

SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. confirmed the June release of a product that will allow users to link SAP’s business processes and data with Microsoft’s Office desktop programs. This product, officially named “Duet,” is the result of a twelve-month collaboration between the corporations.

A unit of German software giant SAP will offer technical assistance for Oracle’s Siebel products at about half the price Oracle charges for support

Starting around August of last year I started tracking down SAP users who were early adopters of the NetWeaver platform, and I found an interesting dynamic happening that lead me to continue researching what was going on.