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  • Accenture announces managed private cloud service for SAP applications

    Accenture has announced a service to enable SAP ERP and NetWeaver Business Warehouse customers to migrate easily to lower-cost, managed private cloud infrastructure.09 Nov 2011

  • SAP takes on Oracle in database war

    SAP has taken one step closer to separating its products from rival Oracle’s market leading relational database, with a strategy to deliver database technology and real time analytics. The ERP comp...11 Apr 2012

  • CIO Interview: IT should drive company innovation, says SAP's Oliver Bussmann

    Driving innovation has become one of the key roles of the chief information officer (CIO), says Oliver Bussmann, CIO at business software maker SAP. “CIOs should be at the top table to drive busine...14 Nov 2011

  • Coca-Cola delivers real-time tracking with BusinessObjects

    Coca-Cola North America has gone live with the SAP BusinessObjects supply chain performance management application. The project, which is due to be rolled out globally, is being used to provide con...17 Feb 2011

  • Case study: Salvatore Ferragamo steps into the future with SAP

    Italian shoe and other luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo is standardising on SAP to support international growth and demand, especially in Asia-Pacific. "With legacy systems struggling to supp...11 Feb 2011

  • Subsea 7 signs Capgemini for SAP support

    Subsea 7, a subsea oil and gas engineering and construction companies, has rehired IT consultancy Capgemini UK for the next three years to support and enhance all its core SAP systems. Some 3,000 o...08 May 2009

  • SAP makes waves in the water industy

    A decade or so ago, utility companies ran many different software products to support business functions such as finance, billing, human resources and maintenance. Driven by deregulation, companies...29 Jul 2008

  • Brunel increases post graduate job prospects with SAP course

    Brunel University has developed a new business systems integration course in partnership with SAP. The university’s School of Information Systems Computing and Maths and SAP have launched an MSc in...31 May 2007

  • Kent Police uses BI on the front line

    Kent Police has rolled out hundreds of business intelligence "dashboards" to give its 6,500 officers a means of identifying and targeting crime outbreaks in their areas. The innovative move shows h...16 Apr 2007

  • Tetley brews SAP savings via in-house management

    Tetley Tea's IT team will go live this month with the first module of an SAP upgrade that the company expects will be completed at about half the cost of using external suppliers. The company has j...10 Oct 2006

  • BI tools move into the mainstream

    Business intelligence is evolving. In the past, business intelligence implementations tended to be confined to the IT department and to business analysts or "power users". However, there is now a m...26 Feb 2007

  • Tetley has a nice cuppa SAP savings

    How tea company Tetley avoided a potential multimillion-pound consultancy fee by keeping project management in-house when standardising its global ERP. If you want to compete with big boys, you had...16 Oct 2006

  • News in brief

    Irwin Mitchell upgrades networks with IP Law firm Irwin Mitchell is replacing its Frame Relay networks with IP communication technology from Cable & Wireless. The £2m upgrade will involve a managed...30 Aug 2005

  • Royal Mail IT to deliver savings as SAP roll-out streamlines billing

    Royal Mail Group has completed the installation of MySAP ERP Financials and SAP Business Intelligence across the business. The milestone marks the final phase of a SAP implementation  designed to c...27 May 2005

  • Homebase considers the cost and risk of moving from R/3 to MySAP

    DIY retailer Homebase is balancing the cost of testing and the potential disruption it faces against the benefits of upgrading from its SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning systems to the newer, we...16 May 2005

  • Integration crunch time for biscuit firms

    United Biscuits is embarking on a massive IT integration project following its acquisition of  rival manufacturer Jacobs from Danone in September 2004. United Biscuits, which owns brands such as Mc...04 Mar 2005

  • Four challenges to get the most out of ERP

      Research identifies the areas where problems occur with enterprise software roll-outs, says Chris Westrup       Enterprise resource planning systems are often associated with delays, missed targe...16 Mar 2005

  • Small studios thinking big with SAP

    When Leo Collins, chief information officer for Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., needed to replace his company's discontinued financial system in 2002 he could have -- maybe should have -- been thin...26 Apr 2005

  • SAP updates Netweaver suite

    Business applications supplier SAP will unveil a version of its application and integration platform designed to end some of the headaches for IT managers who need to co-ordinate among its separate...12 Mar 2004

  • Early adopter Whirlpool expects savings from IBM's next-generation Power5 server

    White goods manufacturer Whirlpool has become one of the first users of IBM's eServer p5 system, which was introduced last week. Whirlpool has taken delivery of a two-way eServer, which it will use...22 Jul 2004