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SAP Lures Oracle's Support Customers

SAP, a German business software giant, is bringing the battle to New Zealand to woo customers from archrival Oracle with the introduction of its subsidiary TomorrowNow. SAP bought the Texas-based TomorrowNow in January. TomorrowNow provides support services for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards systems, both owned by Oracle. Meanwhile, Oracle is offering a plan to migrate SAP's customers to its platform, known as "off SAP". However, SAP believes it has a good opportunity to take advantage of unhappy customers following the particularly hostile takeover of PeopleSoft by Oracle. SAP's Au... (more)

India's Tata Interactive Systems TIS Implements SAP Solutions

TIS, a global producer of e-learning solutions, needs to have a strong internal system. Before the introduction of SAP, the company was  able to track project execution and key metrics was good, but the ability to track projects at a high level of granularity and integration with Human Resources and Finance in terms of metrics and analysis was limited and difficult. The company says that it can now track erything in a highly integrated manner from initial sales inquiry to proposals and quotations to sales order coming in to the project being completed successfully and onwards throu... (more)

The SAP World is ... Virtual

(November 8, 2007) - Virtualization is one of the most interesting IT topics these days. Whereas one can find a lot of concepts and high level content provided by various vendors, it's still a challenge to find detailed technical information on how to use it in SAP landscapes. This session will show you in detail how SAP is using virtualization in its datacenters today, what is really working and what is not, what the pain points are, how SAP solutions behave in a virtualized environment with products offered by partners like VMWare, and which guidelines customers should look at.... (more)

HCL Launches Solution to Avoid SAP Business Information Warehouse Slowdowns

HCL Technologies introduced HCL's new BW Cockpit Solution. The new offering is a centralized repository of real-time and historical load data combined with a simple user interface that enables customers to predict and avoid SAP Business Information Warehouse slowdowns and failures. Leveraging this solution, customers can reduce monitoring costs by 30 percent, secure better analysis of patterns and trends, and eliminate manual errors. "The current process for BW load management involves navigating through numerous transactions and logging into multiple systems," said R. Vaidyanat... (more)