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LosAngelesRecruiter.com!KAGERMANN: SAP BEATING
THE ODDS
In this interview, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said the German-based company is taking advantage of worldwide demand at a time when its competitors have not determined how to stay alive in a deeply wounded economy. SAP REPORTS SURGE IN MARKET
SHARE
A surge in U.S. sales helped fuel SAP's successful Q2. SAP AMERICA SWEETENS SMB
PACKAGES
SAP America is adding two new bundles to its All-in-One suite for small and midsized beverage and food distributors. SAP
REWRITES WEB DYNPRO INTERFACE
Web
Dynpro lets SAP developers use Java Server Pages rather than
ABAP to define screens and
workflow. Now, SAP is rewriting it to support pattern-based development, which creates
reusable components. The
result should be 80% less coding for programmers. SAP
ROLLOUT HITS HP HARD
A badly
executed migration to a new SAP order processing system was one of the reasons that
Hewlett-Packard cited for shoddy third-quarter storage sales.
SAP
CONSULTING PAY ON THE RISE, FOR SOME
The SAP
consultant job market is coming back, slowly but surely, despite the impact that offshore
outsourcing has had on the sector.
RFID
STARTER KITS FROM SAP, SIEMENS, INTEL
It's
called a Starter Kit, and it's one way to get familiar with radio frequency identification (RFID)
technology. Developed by SAP, Siemens, and Intel, the packages provide
first-time users with preconfigured
scenarios.
SAP
Starting Successful into the Financial Year 2004
Last week SAP
AG announced its preliminary financial results for the first
quarter
ended March 31, 2004.
SAP
Achieves Top Spot
SAP AG announced the market leadership of mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (mySAP SRM), as supported by fiscal year 2003 software license revenues and accelerated adoption by customers. SAP booked more than $150 million, based on a quarter-end U.S. dollar exchange rate basis, in new software licenses for mySAP SRM in fiscal year 2003, taking the top spot in the fast-growing SRM market. The company also today released the newest version of mySAP SRM, enhanced to fully support a services-oriented architecture and offering a complete purchasing platform. The announcement was made at the annual conference of the Institute of Supply Management (ISM), being held in Philadelphia, Pa., from April 25 to 28. TOO
SOON FOR NETWEAVER?
NetWeaver
may be the latest, greatest thing from SAP, but many customers
say that adoption of the integration platform will be slow and
steady rather than a real rush.
Shai
Agassi's Passion: SAP NetWeaver
When
SAP executive board member Shai Agassi talks about SAP NetWeaver, he speaks of miracles, Red
Seas parting and a new belief system. The company's new
technology stack, Agassi says, offers salvation for anyone
buried under the costs and complexities of integration
products. Embarking on a 50-city tour in 2004, SAP is preparing
to show off the company's newly packaged integration platform.
SAP
Launches Latest Version of mySAP Supply Chain Management
SAP
AG today announced the launch of its latest version of mySAP
Supply
Chain
Management (mySAP SCM). With its latest SCM solution, SAP introduces a new responsive
replenishment scenario and RFID-enabled (radio frequency
identification) supply chain execution processes, which will
help enterprises gain better visibility into real-time customer
demand and enable them to build more adaptive supply chains.
The announcement was made before 6,000 attendees at the 2004
ASUG Annual Conference & Vendor Fair, being held this week
in Atlanta, Georgia.
RFID
BOOST FOR MYSAP SCM
SAP
yesterday announced new RFID technology for its mySAP supply
chain
management (SCM) application, and a response replenishment
feature
designed to allow retailers and suppliers to fill orders
quickly.
SAP
moves closer to acquiring SAP SI
German
business software vendor SAP AG has moved closer to acquiring
the
remaining
shares of SAP Systems Integration AG (SAP SI) after Software
AG
agreed this
month to sell its 3.6 percent stake in the IT service
provider.
HOW
ABAP PROGRAMMERS CAN SURVIVE OUTSOURCING
SAP
careers expert Jon Reed has some tough love for ABAP
programmers,
and some
instructions for SAP professionals whose careers are
currently
off track.
Tech
Job Cuts on the Decline
Hi-tech
job reductions fell to 29,513 in the first three months of
2004,
the lowest number on record since January 2001, according to a
report.
The
Newest Release of the Technology Platform SAP NetWeaver
SAP unveiled the newest release of its integration and application platform, SAP NetWeaver 2004, the first truly integrated platform to be delivered as one packaged solution. SAP also announced that it has kicked off a 50-city worldwide tour in which SAP executives, customers, prospects, partners and industry analysts will visit five continents to discuss the opportunities that SAP NetWeaver presents to customers and partners. The announcement was made at CeBIT, the world s largest technology trade fair, in Hanover, Germany, and at a special event on SAP's campus in Palo Alto, California. http://www.sap.info/public/en/clickthrough.php4/DBNF/23726405afb2fed1d1 The New
Strategy Is Called 5-1-2
Responding to customer complaints that its migration path is confusing and costly, SAP today announced a bold new maintenance calendar that extends the company's current support deadlines by years. http://www.sap.info/public/en/clickthrough.php4/DBNF/23726405afb2ff2028 SAP
RESTATES INTEREST IN SMB MARKET
SAP plans
to battle Microsoft head on in the small and medium-sized market, new
territory for both software giants. SAP dominates the ERP market, but
one analyst said most SMBs have never heard of SAP or are turned off by
its price tag. SAP currently has 21,000 customers and
estimates half of those are SMBs and SAP says it wants more in
that space.
SAP
MADE MORE SECURE WITH BIOMETRICS
One
company, formed by former SAP consultants, is offering
biometric access
for anything from individual database fields to whole
applications in SAP. For users running R/3 versions 4.x and
later, the technology allows them to place a unique personal
identifier into the record when building and searching access
records.
Outsourcing
Means U.S. Job Creation Is A Must, Powell Says
Secretary
of State Colin Powell's remarks come amid a growing outcry in the
U.S. about the loss of jobs from offshore outsourcing to
low-cost locations like India.
Defense
Department Taps IBM For RFID Help
Under a
three-year consulting contract, IBM will help the department develop
by June 30 a strategy for using the wireless technology to
improve its supply system and inventory management.
SAP
delivers bullish outlook for 2004
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
For
the first time in nearly two years, SAP AG executives offered a
bullish outlook for business software sales in 2004,
pointing to a general recovery in global IT spending. SAP AG
expects software sales to increase 10 percent in 2004 as
businesses resume IT spending after an investment pause of
more than two years, the company said Thursday as it announced
its fourth-quarter results. The Walldorf, Germany, vendor said
it sees clear signs that enterprises have begun to pick up the
pace in software investments.
SAPCONSOLE
KEEPS SARGENTO FRESH
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
With
SAPConsole, Sargento Foods says it doesn't have to worry about
moldy mozzarella ever hitting the shelves.
SAP
INTRODUCES NEW RFID PACKAGE
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
Last week SAP announced
a new RFID package targeted at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suppliers.
RFID
EVERYWHERE FOR METRO
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
Like
SAP, Europe's Metro Group is a huge fan of frequency
identification (RFID) technology. Last year Metro unveiled an
RFID "Future Store" store in Germany, and today the
company announced an initiative that will see RFID extended to
its suppliers. But even SAP executives acknowledge that it will
take some time before suppliers feel like they are part of a
RFID revolution.
German
Retailer's RFID Effort Rivals Wal-Mart's
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
Wal-Mart
isn't the only major retailer to issue an RFID edict to its top
100 suppliers. A German retailer, Metro Group, has been
conducting extensive pilots and has asked its top suppliers to
start tagging items
by
this November.
IT
Bouncing Back
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
A
new report from the US Department of Commerce revealed IT
industries are growing more quickly and are showing signs
of resuming the dynamic role they played from 1996-2000.
IT
Workers Expect Raises In 2004
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
Many
IT professionals got no raises this year, but a majority expect
an increase in '04, a Brainbench study says.
Internal
Resistance Can Doom Offshore Projects
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
Disgruntled
managers, unhappy with their company's offshore direction, may
pose biggest risks to initiating an offshore project.
Companies
Fear Publicizing Savings From Outsourcing
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004
by Webmaster
Corporations
are usually quick to publicize their cost-cutting efforts, but
many worry about a growing anti-outsourcing backlash when
sending tech jobs overseas.
RFID Business Model Gets Respect
Posted Thu Jan 15, 2004 by Webmaster
By Erika Morphy, wireless
newsfactor
Manufacturers
wondering if and when the market might shift toward RFID
(radio frequency identification) adoption have received more
validation that this controversial technology is heading for
the mainstream. Over the
past 24 hours, the following events have occurred:
Read full article at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20040113/bs_nf/22983
SAP Launches First RFID
Solution to Help Customers Automate RFID-Enabled Business
Processes
Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004
by Webmaster
By SAP's press release Copyright © 2004 SAP AG
Packaged RFID
Solution for Supply Chain Management Will Deliver Value through
Seamless Integration of RFID Data into Applications. NEW
YORK, NY - January 12, 2004 - Delivering on its vision of
adaptive supply chain networks, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today
announced the launch of the first packaged radio
frequency identification (RFID) solution for supply chain
management.
Read the whole Press Release: http://www.sap.com/text/company/press/press.asp?pressID=2609
LEARN ABOUT RFID
RFID Handbook : Fundamentals and Applications
in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is used in all areas of automatic data capture allowing contactless identification of objects using RF. With applications ranging from secure internet payment systems to industrial automation and access control, RFID technology solutions are receiving much attention in the research and development departments of large corporations. RFID is a major growth are in auto ID, allowing emergency vehicles to safely trip traffic signals, and providing the technology behind contactless smart cards, "autopiloting" cars, and production automation. Fully revised and updated to include all the latest information on industry standards and applications, this new edition provides a standard reference for people working with RFID technology. Expanded sections explain exactly how RFID systems work, and provide up-to-date information on the development of new tags such as the smart label. Buy Now! CUT THROUGH
THE RFID HYPE
Just like with any new technology first comes
the hype, then reality settles. What is RFID? It sounds very
futuristic and it brings up pictures of the advertisement where
a guy walks into the super market dumps products into the cart
and walks through a gate....
Read whole article at http://www.evolutionaryconsulting.com/artcutthroughrfidhype.htm
SAP's
Henning Kagermann Upbeat About Business
Henning
Kagermann, chairman and CEO of SAP AG, talked today about "out-tasking,"
growth in IT, the proposed Oracle takeover of PeopleSoft
open source issues and Linux.
GARTNER:
SAP SKILLS MEAN SUCCESS
Speaking
at the HP/SAP Tech-Ed conference in South Africa over the weekend,
Gartner Research analyst Derek Prior told global customers that
a SAP competency center can mean the difference between success
and
failure.
SAP
CONSULTANTS STAY AT TOP OF THE PAY SCALES
Salaries
for consultants are dropping, but SAP consultants continue to
command higher salaries than their peers, according to a new
study.
RFID
WARNING FOR WAL-MART SUPPLIERS
Wal-Mart
suppliers racing to meet the retailer's mandate for using radio-frequency
identification technology to track goods starting in 2005 have
been warned that not all vendors of RFID technology will be
ready to meet Wal-Mart's requirements.
Survey:
IT Hiring On The Rise Into '04
A majority
of human resources managers and recruiters who responded to a survey by
online recruiting services provider Dice Inc. said they plan
to hire more tech professionals in the next six months.
Offshore
Support Questioned
Offshore
facilities that deliver phone-based technical support can cut costs
for technology vendors, but whether call centers in India and
elsewhere deliver the quality of service that corporate users
expect is up for debate.
Offshore "Hiccups In An Irreversible Trend"
Posted Monday, December 8, 2003 by Webmaster By Paul McDougall, Informationweek.com The reining in of a pair of high-profile offshore relationships late last month shows how the movement of IT and customer-service operations to lower-cost overseas locales still carries sizable business and public-relations risks. Dell is returning technical support for large business users of its Optiplex PCs and Latitude notebook computers to U.S. call centers from its company-owned facilities in India, where the computer maker ran support operations for the past three years. The move, a Dell spokesman says, comes after some customers complained about poor service. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16400977 SAP's Heinrich sees RFID Revolution
Posted Monday, November 18, 2003 by Webmaster
By Robert Westervelt, SearchSAP.com News
Writer
SAP
executive board member Claus Heinrich yesterday told IT
managers at the Forrester Research Executive Strategy that
radio frequency identification technology (RFID) is the wave
of the future.
Read entire article: http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci934339,00.html
Wireless Number Portability
Posted Monday, November 17, 2003 by Webmaster
It's
official! Starting November 24, you
will be able to keep
your current cell phone number when you purchase a new cell phone and you decide to switch to a new provider. Click here to see
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Bargain-hunting companies look off
shore for programming, but at what cost?
Posted Monday, November 17, 2003 by Webmaster
Information Security Magazine November
2003
BY ERIK SHERMAN
Horace
Greeley told people to go West for their fortunes, but
corporations are looking east--the Far East--to save
money on software development.
Instead of paying programmers handsome annual salaries and benefits, companies are finding trained and hungry experts overseas. For a fraction of the domestic costs, businesses such as Oracle and Guardian Insurance are getting coding for products or internal applications in India, China, Russia and elsewhere. The results work well enough that the practice has expanded. But specters of cyberterrorism, computer crime and economic espionage make application integrity and security major issues. Those safely succeeding are finding that they must rigorously choose their offshore partners, perform extended due diligence, set clear expectations, create a legal framework, and stay thoroughly involved in the process to remain safe. Read entire article: http://infosecuritymag.techtarget.com/ss/0,295796,sid6_iss205_art458,00.html
Why IT Outsourcing
Fails
Posted Monday, November 17, 2003 by Webmaster ComputerWeekly.com
When Prahalad &
Hammel published their ground-breaking article on core
competencies in the Harvard Business Review (Get this Harvard Business Review here) in
1990 they gave legitimacy to the wave of IT outsourcing which
has swept the world in the past decade and changed IT supply
irrevocably.
Unfortunately, we
missed the hidden catch and we are now paying for it every
day.
Think of a core
competency as anything your company performs well enough to
create value and everything else as potentially destroying
value if you insist upon doing it yourself.
The movement after Prahalad &
Hammel argued for a massive re-alignment of industries, where
companies maximise value creation through concentrating on
their value adding competencies and and contracting with third
parties (which have the required core competencies) to do
everything else. So why is the IT track-record so poor?
Read entire article: http://www.computerweekly.com/Article122940.htm
The Hidden Costs of IT
Outsourcing
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 by Webmaster
Business Week Online October 27 Edition
While
moving software development and tech support offshore is all
the rage, many companies find the overall savings aren't
that great.
Keith Franklin, president of Empowered Software Solutions in Burr Ridge, Ill., loves offshore outsourcing. It means more work for his 40-person company. Just last year, ESS, which specializes in developing applications for Microsoft's .Net platform for Web services, earned $500,000 in revenues from fixing buggy software written in India. It took ESS five months to repair a glitch-filled application for a Web portal. Most pages on the site weren't connected, turning updating into a nightmare. Some code was missing. Read the entire arcle: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc20031027_9655_tc119.htm Companies thinking about using offshore outsourcing need to
consider more than just cost savings.
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 by Webmaster
InformationWeek - October 20 Edition By Mary Hayes The argument for offshore outsourcing
begins with a basic assumption: There are masses of
high-quality IT workers available in places such as India,
China, and the Philippines at low cost. Yet what worries
business-technology managers most about sending work
abroad is poor quality and high costs.
Read more: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15500032 |
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