22 articles in this selection
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| 2009/10/05 Free SAP PowerPoint Twitter Tools
A beta version of PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology, the twitter tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page....
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| 2009/09/24 10 Famous ERP Disasters, Dustups and Disappointments
It's no wonder ERP has such a bad reputation: The recent history surrounding the complex and expensive enterprise software market is packed with tales of vendor mud-slinging, outrageous hype and epic failures.
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| 2009/07/30 Sleek SAP Is Primed For Recovery
When the economy recovers, some companies will come back with a bang and others will arrive with a calm "hello." SAP seems content to go with the latter. The world's biggest maker of business software surprised the market on Wednesday when it showed just how well it had done to keep a lid on costs in the midst of the recession....
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| 2009/07/29 SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half 2009 Results
WALLDORF - July 29, 2009 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its preliminary financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2009. SAP's revenues are down 10%, yet the company manages to increase operational result by 9% due to stringent cost cutting....
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| 2009/07/15 Universe Design Best Practices
I recently had to provide a list of best practices in Universe Design - partly compiled from the SAP BusinessObjects training material, as well as my own experiences. I believe that the universe is the foundation of the BusinessObjects system. With poor universe design, required reports are often difficult or even impossible in some cases. Poor universe design can also lead to wrong data, non-optimal SQL generation, incompatible objects and/or Cartesian products (or very wrong data). I've categorised the best practices into two groups, End-User and Cosmetic methods, as well as Functional or Optimisation methods....
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| 2009/07/12 SAP Social Media Guidelines 2009
SAP recently announced a new set of Social Media Participation Guidelines and an internal forum to help employees make the most of new social media channels such as Blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. In the spirit of Web 2.0, and like other organizations such as Intel and IBM, we would like to share our guidelines with the community....
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| 2009/06/11 SAP BusinessObjects Explorer in the cloud
With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer in the cloud you can visually explore and analyze your Excel spreadsheets. Use Explorer in the cloud with financial data, catalogs, customer lists, music libraries, and many other types of data. Simply upload your Excel file, and you'll be looking at your data in a whole new way....
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| 2009/06/09 Allegedly Rigged Product Demo In SAP Suit Goes Missing
Waste Management sued SAP in March 2008 over a failed ERP project. Now, well into the pre-trial discovery process, a presale product demonstration software package that Waste Management says was a key element of the 'false representations' SAP made to 'induce Waste Management into entering a software licensing and implementation agreement' has gone missing. Naturally, both sides say the other has it. And SAP, for its part, says it has 'searched extensively' for the system and wants it 'as much or more' as Waste Management, since it 'will help SAP disprove WM's fraud claim.'...
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| 2009/04/29 SAP BusinessObjects Changes BI Pricing
I have often said BI pricing is a buyer's nightmare. No two vendors package products the same way, so defining requirements and evaluating alternatives can be a painful process. You would think that procuring the software is relatively easier, but it's often...
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| 2008/09/23 SAP sketches its designs on SaaS | Australian IT
SAP rose to become one of the information technology greats by selling game-changing enterprise resource planning software to the top end of town, but in the past decade has seen the big German business software outfit has had to look downmarket for growth....
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