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Wal-Mart, SAP Set Sights On Sustainability
January 12, 2010 by Doug Henschen
Execs stress profit potential of energy savings. Carbon tracking seen as next must-have enterprise software functionality.

Microsoft Unveils ERP For Midsized Retailers
January 11, 2010 by Paul McDougall
Dynamics AX suite provides direct integration with SharePoint, SQL Server, and other Microsoft products.

Cloud-based Analytic Apps Optimize the Supply Chain
December 2, 2009 by Doug Henschen
FusionOps dashboards and process automation apps streamline purchasing. Customer Kimball Electronics gains ROI within months.

Oco Unveils Supply Chain Analytics Suite
September 7, 2009 by Antone Gonsalves
The software-as-a-service offering provides reports, analytics, dashboards and tools to address supply chain-specific issues, such as transportation and logistics, inventory, customer service and sourcing.

SPSS Unveils Predictive Analytics For Marketers
August 24, 2009 by Antone Gonsalves
PASW-Direct Marketing is designed for business users and requires no knowledge of advanced statistics.

IDC Ranks Vendors In Growing Business Analytics Market
August 24, 2009 by Antone Gonsalves
In 2008, Oracle led the overall market, followed in order by SAP, IBM, SAS and Microsoft, a recent IDC report says. Rounding out the top 10 were Teradata, Fair Isaac, Informatica, Infor and MicroStrategy, respectively.

IBM Adds Intelligence To Sensor Data
August 19, 2009 by Antone Gonsalves
The WebSphere Sensor Events software can draw data from readers of radio-frequency identification tags on items moving between suppliers, manufacturers and distribution centers, and then send that information to business systems for processing.

SAP Demos Commitment To Business ByDesign
July 30, 2009 by Mary Hayes Weier
Enhancements and testing of the software-as-a-service suite indicate that SAP intends to make the offering more broadly available next year.

SDL Expands Content Management Offerings With XyEnterprise Purchase
July 6, 2009 by Antone Gonsalves
XyEnterprise, which specializes in XML and content component management, will be merged with SDL's Trisoft unit, which will be renamed XySoft.

Coke's RFID-Based Dispensers Redefine Business Intelligence
June 6, 2009 by Mary Hayes Weier
The Freestyle drink dispensers will give consumers more than 100 beverage choices -- and provide the beverage maker with valuable consumption data.

SaaS Market Predicted To Grow By 22% This Year
May 11, 2009 by Antone Gonsalves
SaaS adoption has become more widespread, as business and computing models have matured, improving security response time and service availability.

SAP Buys Cloud Computing Startup Coghead
February 19, 2009 by J. Nicholas Hoover
Coghead's service continues through April, but SAP will shut customer obligations and relationships down after that.

Three Ways to Link Execution to Strategy
November 22, 2008 by Doug Henschen
Performance management guru David Norton tackles the challenge of aligning day-to-day decisions with big-picture strategy.

SAS Offers Manufacturers Early-Warning Analytics
November 3, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
SAS Quality Lifecycle Analysis uses early-warning analytics to monitor thousands of parameters and send automated alerts to warn of product defects and potential failures in the manufacturing process before they become costly problems, the company said.

Kraft Looks To SAP For Help With Data Management
September 9, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
SAP also announced an upgrade to Business Objects' data management software at its TechEd conference on Tuesday.

Six Steps to Better Sales Forecasting and Demand Planning
July 14, 2008 by Robert D. Kugel CFA
Most companies are immature and uncoordinated when it comes to sales forecasting and demand planning. Follow these six steps to increase forecast accuracy, speed planning cycles, reduce inventory costs, end stockouts and increase customer satisfaction.

SAP's Kagermann Reveals Plan To Bring SaaS To Large Companies
May 5, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
SAP will announce Tuesday on-demand "components," due out next year, that integrate with a customer's existing ERP suite, Kagermann says.

SAP Software Appliances Will Run on HP, IBM Hardware
May 5, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
Pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS.

SAP Promotes Leo Apotheker To Co-CEO
April 2, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
The board also appointed Bill McDermott, president of SAP Americas, plus two additional corporate officers, Erwin Gunst and Jim Hagemann Snabe, to its executive board.

Microsoft Gets Emotional With Business Software Upgrade
March 12, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
Microsoft Dynamics developers used a new methodology that studies emotions to create "desirable" software.

IBM, SAP To Jointly Develop Business Software
January 22, 2008 by Paul McDougall
The two companies will develop middleware designed to place complex data from SAP's business apps directly into IBM's more user-friendly Lotus Notes environment.

Wal-Mart Sets Deadline For Sam's Club Suppliers To Use RFID
January 17, 2008 by Mary Hayes Weier
Wal-Mart says it'll charge suppliers to its warehouse stores a fee of $2 for every pallet not tagged with RFID starting Jan. 30.

SAP Focuses On Ease Of Use In CRM Upgrade
December 10, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
SAP adds a friendlier user interface to CRM 2007, as well as a variety of new capabilities.

JPMorgan Xign Adds Electronic Procure-To-Pay Services
October 29, 2007 by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
The Procure-to-Pay service ties companies' procurement operations and accounts payable systems onto a single platform, says JPMorgan Xign.

Oracle To BEA: You Won't Get A Better Offer
October 23, 2007 by Charles Babcock
If BEA Systems doesn't accept Oracle's $17-per-share bid by Sunday, it will be withdrawn, says Oracle president.

Process Rising: Q&A With IDS Scheer's Dr. Mathias Kirchmer
October 7, 2007 by Doug Henschen
Few companies have been focused on business process excellence for as long as IDS Scheer. Founded in 1984, the company introduced its now widely used ARIS Platform way back in 1992, and it has been at the forefront of process design and analysis ever since. The company has the unique distinction of being the top process technology partner to both SAP and Oracle. In a chat with the company's U.S.-based Chief Innovation and Marketing Officer, Dr. Mathias Kirchmer shared his thoughts on "open BPM" and the direction of the industry.

Math Whizzes Turbo-Charge An Online Retailer's Sales
October 5, 2007 by Thomas Claburn
Zara, a Spanish clothing chain, has developed an analytical model to optimize the distribution of inventory across its stores with help from some brains at MIT and UCLA.

Open Text Ships Invoice Management Software For SAP
September 24, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
Vendor Invoice Management Version 5.1 is used to optimize vendor invoice processes. The product also includes built-in reporting and analytics.

Systems-Management Vendor Hyperic Incorporates JasperSoft Reporting Tools
September 24, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The new Hyperic HQ Enterprise Reports, a part of Hyperic HQ 3.1, provides a graphical report designer and a Java reporting library that enables creation of complex layouts.

IT Titans Take Manhattan
September 21, 2007 by Doug Henschen
IBM, SAP and Microsoft choose the Big Apple for three big-time, industry-altering announcements.

SAP Launches 'New Era' With On-Demand Software
September 19, 2007 by Mary Hayes Weier
SAP Business ByDesign automates a wide range of business processes and will cost companies $149 per user per month.

NetSuite Upgrades On-Demand Features for Services Companies, Wholesalers, Distributors
September 16, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The software as a service offerings make it possible for services companies to manage entire project lifecycles, and for wholesalers and distributors to mange core business functions.

Performance Management: The Next Big Thing for BI Vendors
September 12, 2007 by Doug Henschen
Business Objects bows first integrated release in the wake of its Cartesis acquisition.

Supply Chain BI Helps Organizations Manage Performance
September 3, 2007 by Colin Snow
Research shows mature companies use BI to shape demand and guide financial results. Is your firm at the Tactical, Advanced, Strategic or Innovative level of maturity?

IBM Unveils Mainframe OS Upgrade
August 16, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The improvements include better PKI services for managing digital certificates directly through the mainframe, thereby eliminating the need for third-party hosting of those services.

American Express Targets 'Maverick' Purchasing, Supplier Overcharges
August 10, 2007 by Doug Henschen
CatalogPro service puts approved purchasing programs online. Contract Audit & Recovery service spots overspending and seeks refunds.

Hewlett-Packard Data Warehouse Lands In Wal-Mart's Shopping Cart
August 4, 2007 by Mary Hayes Weier
Retailer will be an early user of HP's Neoview to analyze data related to 20,000 suppliers.

RFID Gets Boost In Europe From Retail Giant's Deployment
June 26, 2007 by K.C. Jones
Metro Group ranks as the fourth-largest retailer in the world, with about 270,000 employees and 2,400 outlets in 30 countries.

At Procter & Gamble, The Good And Bad Of Web 2.0 Tools
June 23, 2007 by J. Nicholas Hoover
It once bet its collaboration strategy on Microsoft tools. It's expanded to consider more Web 2.0 tools, but getting them implemented and used is far from easy.

Microsoft Revamps Acquired ERP Suites
June 23, 2007 by J. Nicholas Hoover
New versions of Dynamics ERP software give all four of the company's ERP lines a common look and feel.

The Inside Story On Oracle's Deal To Acquire Agile Software
May 16, 2007 by Mary Hayes Weier
Oracle's Charles Phillips and Agile Software CEO Jay Fulcher have known each other for 20 years. Here's what they plan to do moving forward.

Amid Challenges, SAP CEO Kagermann Sticks To His Plan
April 28, 2007 by Mary Hayes Weier
Technology, business models, and leadership are in flux.

All Eyes Will Be On SAP At Its Sapphire Customer Conference
April 23, 2007 by Mary Hayes Weier
SAP execs probably won't spend a lot of time talking about the legal battle with Oracle, they'll instead focus on gains the company has made in the past year.

Oracle Ships New Software For Manufacturers
April 2, 2007 by Paul McDougall
E-Business Suite Release 12 updates the software's approach to supply chains, operations, and customer accounts.

Oracle Cries 'Thief'
March 24, 2007 by Paul McDougall Charles Babcock
SAP is accused of stealing support data from an Oracle Web site by pretending to be customers. It's a nasty turn in a hard-fought rivalry.

New Deals Show Software-As-A-Service More Than A Niche
February 28, 2007 by Mary Hayes Weier
Salesforce.com and IBM write up new contracts with partners willing to adopt an on-demand software model.

CRM Comes to Google Business Apps
February 28, 2007 by Thomas Claburn
One company is adapting its Web-based enterprise customer relationship management software to fit Google's Apps Premier Edition.

SAP Hires Software-As-A-Service Exec
February 21, 2007 by Mary Hayes Weier
The hiring of Peter Dunning, formerly with RightNow Technologies, comes as SAP is preparing a new on-demand software delivery model for midsize businesses.

SAP Buys Analytics Software Maker Pilot
February 20, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
Pilot's flagship product, PilotWorks, helps information workers align goals, initiatives, and metrics around corporate strategies, which are codified in the software.

Ketera Offers Spend-Analysis Upgrade
February 6, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
Ketera upgrades the spend-analysis module within the company's hosted business-to-business platform for buyers and suppliers.