ERP Software

SAP profit warning

SAP has declined to comment on rumours of a profit warning; German law states today would be the last day for SAP to issue any second quarter profit warning.

Forbes SAP ERP Info

SAP Discovery System for Enterprise SOA

For all you SAP developers out there ,SAP has released a sandbox for you to play in called SAP Discovery System for Enterprise SOA.

You need to speak to your SAP vendor for details but you do need to deal Hewlett-Packard they are offering a the package preinstalled on an HP ProLiant DL380

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/3860 cost you $8999.00 or there is some leasing deal.

SAP Discovery System for Enterprise SOA offers

SAP Enterprise Core Component (ECC 5.0) configured with the SAP Best Practices tool suite

SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer

SAP NetWeaver '04 SP 14:

SAP NetWeaver Portal

SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (MDM)

SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (XI)

SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI)

SAP NetWeaver Application Server

Cadbury's implementation pains

Cadbury has taken a £12m hit on its profits after IT problems caused too many chocolate bars to be produced.

Cadburys was left with warehouses full of chocolate bars at the start of the year, after the rollout of a new SAP-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system led to an excess of chocolate bars building up at the end of 2005.

The new SAP ERP system is part of project called Probe ,Cadbury is hoping for £500m efficiency savings.

Cadburys is offering a unique experiment to increase their employee’s pay packet offering a month’s salary and a hundred thousand chocolate bars free to choose to what brand they want, have to get rid of the chocolate some how.

SAP merger ?

Henning Kagermann, SAP’s chief executive, has changed SAP's tone to a possible merger  “There is no intention for SAP to enter any discussions,”  this has contradicted what Hasso Plattner (SAP founder)did say that Microsoft, IBM and Google were the only companies that could feasibly buy the group.

Maybe SAP needs to write a application for board communication strategy?

SAP buyers:IBM|Microsoft|Google?

Hasso Plattner, of SAP is open to chatting to suitors for a possible merger or buyout saying : “There are only three potential buyers: IBM,Microsoft and Google of all companies. I don’t see anyone else. If shareholders think that a combination, and not independence, is better, then it will happen.”

Platter’s thoughts on IBM were: “I do not want to invent rumours because there are no talks. However, I do not want to say that I dislike IBM so much that I could not imagine such a scenario at all.” But the two companies have formed an agreement for IBM in the us to resell SAP to the small to medium sized market.

Microsoft: They did talk a couple of years ago but there would be EU competition issues there which could sour the party.

Google: nothing mentioned that would be a huge culture clash to manage but imagine having a SAP application that was flexible .If Google could change the mindset in SAP, having customer focused approach would work wonders.

There will be no dance with Larry (Oracle) though, he must be miffed.

The company that takes on SAP will need to have deep pockets Sap’s turnover is $64bn plus they are leading the field in organic sales with plans to double their stock price by 2010

IBM SAP here we go again

IBM to purchase SAP rumors have resurfaced again according to Ovum research company this is due to SAP down 1.6% on profits for this first quarter.

Talk is that IBM wants to have a complete stack of software but this would affect their claims to be independent vendor and losing revenue with the other ERP software packages they sell.

SAP SaaS it up

SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said they plan to release this year   an on-demand version of its SAP All-in-One ERP software package for mid-market companies.

SAP has also just released their Q1 numbers up 18% ,not bad for a days work.

SAP Netweaver plans

SAP is moving forward with its NetWeaver technology and it’s Enterprise Services Architecture, saying that most of their customers are way behind in the upgrade cycle a sap upgrade can be expensive and time consuming.

SAP is pushing ESA to combine their Netweaver platform with business process modeling e.g. order to cash SAP wants to move away from inflexible middleware to more of a services based operation giving their customers greater flexibility with their SAP ERP Beast they installed.

SAP has 30,000 companies with a 100,000 different installations Netweaver has been implemented across 5000 sites .Senior management wants a slow upgrade cycle. "God forbid we would have had everybody migrating at the same time," the president of Sap’s products and technology group, Shai Agassi, said. "We would have had a disaster on our hands."

With the big ERP vendors the battle is being fought on the SOA services front and SAP has to be seen to be leading the race even if their customers are reluctant to buy into SAP as a flexible ERP software package.

SAP is planning to have 6000 Netweaver deployments in 2006.

SAP Cisco team up for Business One

SAP  and Cisco Systems Inc  will launch the SAP's low-end Business One application on an Application-Oriented Networking blade for Ciscos Integrated Services Router during 2006.

Cisco is there to support SAP roll out of business one software to branches or operations in different countries.

SAP would use a AON blade server to help with the roll out and  integration instead of flying a team of highly paid consultants all over the country.

The comment I did like was "We automate the integration of Business One" ,if that is their attitude just ask for a serious reduction in the number of days in the project.

SAP CISCO

SAP Microsoft Mendocino given public preview

SAP And Microsoft has released office SAP software called Mendocino.

The project, which combines several SAP functions with Microsoft Office tools, allows end users to conduct work in the Microsoft Outlook environment. The first version   provides budget monitoring, time and leaves management, report distribution and organization functionality.

This software will be aimed at large organisations initially; there are no details about cost but do say the software would take” a period of hours to install”?

Mendocino offers limited features within office 2003 but will expand dramatically when Office 12 is launched.

http://www.sap.com/solutions/mendocino/index.epx