The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

ORLANDO — SAP today unveiled its accelerated cloud strategy by announcing cloud solutions for four lines of business to manage people, money, customers and suppliers. (more…)

The last thing a cutting-edge IT consulting firm needs is more IT, right? Wrong. On May 21, IT consulting firm R3D plans to go-live with a whole bunch of SAP Business ByDesign goodness, and not for the reasons you think. (more…)

If you’re a beer drinker, you’ll no doubt recall the days of yore when it was next to impossible to find the tasty craft beer Blue Moon. As a small outfit, Blue Moon lacked the distribution power of the big boys. Retailers, in turn, had a tough time keeping it in stock. Fans lost out. (more…)

From CeBIT 2012, SAP today announced several key updates across its growing portfolio of cloud offerings, including line-of-business application services and its cloud suite, the SAP Business ByDesign solution. New and existing customers alike are responding to the company’s set of cloud solutions, including SAP Sourcing OnDemand, SAP Sales OnDemand and the newest offering, SAP Travel OnDemand. Read the press release.

When Clarke Miyasaki skated onstage wearing a hoodie and jeans with a pair of earphones around his neck at SAPPHIRE NOW Madrid, he presented a stark contrast to SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe’s suit and tie. But if the two were sartorially worlds apart, what they do have in common is a shared passion for innovating their business. (more…)

Enterprises running SAP Business Suite software in their headquarters have shown strong interest in equipping their subsidiaries with the SAP Business ByDesign solution. Today, SAP announced that customers such as The Dow Chemical Company and Nokia have deployed SAP Business ByDesign at their subsidiaries SAFECHEM and Nokia Tej. Read the press release.

SAP today announced that the San Jose Sharks, a National Hockey League team currently in the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, has successfully completed the initial implementation of the SAP Sports and Entertainment Management solution. Bramasol Inc., an SAP gold partner, has been responsible for the creation of important interfaces and will focus on developing industry-specific add-ons for the project as a next step. Read the press release.

The Broadcast Center at SAPPHIRE NOW from Orlando features broadcasting sessions produced in a “Talk Show” format that are limited to 30 minutes. The programming includes one-on-one interviews in which experts demonstrate how SAP technology enables customers to run better, panel discussions with customers, partners, and SAP executives on a given topic, as well as magazine format sessions combining elements such as interviews, videos, and feeds from the floor. (more…)

In addition to presentations and discussion panels, this year SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando, Florida, also offers a wide range of different microforums. A microforum provides a platform for up to twelve people to discuss a specific business topic within the SME space whereby a moderator hosts the conversation and encourages debate and networking. Some microforums feature SAP customers or partners. (more…)

How does your company enable growth? Are you prepared to see rapid value from your business management software solutions? What are other companies just like yours doing in the on-demand software space? (more…)