Vexed Tech to SAP, Oracle: Shut up Those Shrieking Servers

Driven mad by beeping servers involved in the SAP-Oracle lawsuit, a tech in Texas is fighting back.

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SAP Launches Sustainability-tracking Application

SAP has announced a sustainability-tracking application for enterprises.

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SAP Planning to Open up On-demand Development Platform

SAP is planning to open up its on-demand software development platform to third parties, but not just yet.

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SAP Making EPM Push Against Oracle

SAP is touting a rip-and-replace win over Oracle for its EPM (enterprise performance management) software.

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No Quick Resolution Likely for SAP KPI Saga

It may be a while before SAP convinces users its Enterprise Support program has real additional value, as well as additional cost.

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SAP Readying Potential Google Wave Rival

SAP has big plans for an upcoming "virtual war room" decision-making tool.

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Startups Trying to Change the SAP Consulting Game

A pair of new startups see potential in remote help desk support for SAP.

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Microsoft Seeks to Leverage Midmarket ERP

Microsoft can't boast the ERP (enterprise resource planning) application revenue earned by giants SAP and Oracle, nor equal their breadth of technological...

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SAP, HP to Deepen Ties Around BI

SAP and Hewlett-Packard are planning to boost the integration between their BI and data warehousing platforms.

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Rimini Street Ups Third-party Maintenance Ante

Rimini Street announced this week that it has expanded the number of SAP applications it supports.

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SAP, Salesforce.com Make Apps With Google Wave

Salesforce.com and SAP have created prototype applications with Google Wave.

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SAP, Salesforce.com Make Apps With Google Wave

Salesforce.com and SAP have created prototype applications with Google Wave.

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SAP Offers ‘free’ CRM for ERP Buyers

SAP is offering customers who buy Business All-in-One licenses its CRM application at no charge.

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Henning Kagermann Will Join Wipro’s Board

Former SAP CEO Henning Kagermann will join Wipro's board on Oct. 27.

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World of Warcraft is back in China~!

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Chinese gamers can once again feel the joy of buying an epic on the Auction House for 100G, then selling it for 300G to some sap. Yes, World of Warcraft is officially, 100 percent back in China. This is clearly huge news that’s totally worth your time of day.

You’ll recall that WoW had been offline in China for quite some time, owing to a dispute between Blizzard, the local company handling the game’s operation, and the Chinese government. The game had to be censored to a degree, and then it was put into a beta, and then is came out. Oh, that’s where we are today—it’s out again.

Kotaku says more than half of WoW’s players comes from China, so you can imagine that this must have been quite the headache for Blizzard to deal with.

This is where I make the tenuous link between China, MMOs, and gold farming. Although I will say this: I am so damn sick of corpse spam in the game. It totally takes you out of the game, so to speak. I was going to do a “Please Kill the Corpse Spam, Blizzard” post, but then I’m like, “You idiot, you don’t think Blizzard’s already working on the problem? What good will your complaint do?”

Anyway, WoW is back in China. Let us celebrate by having many brews at Brewfest, which is still my favorite in-game holiday.


SAP Exec: Business ByDesign Will Be Smash Success

An SAP executive declared its Business ByDesign product will be a smashing success, but it's still not clear when it will be broadly available.

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Versata Wins $139M Damages in SAP Patent Lawsuit

Versata Software has won $139M in damages in a patent lawsuit against ERP software vendor SAP.

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SAP Adds Web Services to Business ByDesign

SAP is rolling out a number of Web services integrations for its Business ByDesign suite.

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Italian company uses RC toy submarines to run cables through sewers

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Smart. And a little gross. An Italian company has resorted to using remote-controlled toy submarines to run fiberoptic cable through the sewers of Milan.

The model of the submarine is apparently the Neptune SB-1, a $600 toy by Thunder Tiger of Taiwan. There’s a full article here but it’s in Italian. Seems pretty self-explanatory, though: attach cable to submarine, drop submarine into river of poo, pee, and bathwater, then pilot said submarine down to the poor sap on the other end of the pipe who’s gotta fish the thing out and connect the cable to whatever needs rigged up.

In unrelated news, think twice about bidding on used Neptune SB-1 toy submarines on eBay — you can never really know where they’ve been.

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SAP Benchmarking Program Begins Tracking First KPIs

SAP users have begun measuring the performance of key aspects of their ERP systems as part of a benchmarking process agreed with user groups.

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SAP Wants to Help Microcredit Groups Manage Loans

SAP hopes to help lower the cost of managing microcredits, as part of a partnership with French nonprofit group PlaNet Finance.

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