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Tight Control and Tough Competition
27.04.2009
Just last fall, an enthusiastic Yury Makarov told SAP.info how SAP Business One was helping Mettler-Toledo attain its goals. Now, with the recession raging in Russia, the company has changed its focus.
IT Outsourcing Models at a Glance
05.12.2008
Less investment, lower operating costs, and the ability to focus on core competencies: these are the reasons companies cite most often for outsourcing their IT.
Easy as Enterprise SOA – Servicing a Better Idea
05.09.2007
There are no talking geckos or disgruntled cavemen spearheading SAP for Insurance. Because while clever marketing is what attracts customers, back-end proficiency and efficiency is what keeps them around. Enterprise SOA, or enterprise service-oriented architecture, ties up new tactics and alliances combined with a proven, cutting-edge toolset for the insurance agency.
Increased Transparency through Double-Entry Bookkeeping
27.06.2007
In a pioneering move among Hesse’s large municipalities, the city of Frankfurt am Main has introduced double-entry bookkeeping. On the IT side, SAP for Public Sector gives a boost to state-of-the-art IT systems delivering greater transparency in administration.
Clustering Ensures Consistent Data
24.01.2007
SAP applications are the foundation of many important processes in a company, so downtime must be avoided. WAN clustering – the replication of the SAP environment across varied, heterogeneous locations – and best practices can ensure that your company is always ready for operations – and it creates the optimal conditions for growth.
Like Needles in a Haystack
20.03.2006
Attacks on companies’ IT systems have risen again in the last year. In Germany the number of security breaches rose by three percent. Overall, one in twelve attacks caused a total crash of the network and all services. In Great Britain, access by unauthorized users increased by 25 percent. 42 percent of British corporations suffered data or system errors as a result.
SAP Extends Market Leadership in Retail with Acquisition of Triversity
19.09.2005
Extending its market leadership in providing end-to-end solutions for the retail industry, SAP AG announced that it is acquiring privately-held, Toronto, Canada-based Triversity, the leading North American provider of point-of-sale (POS) software solutions. The announcement was made at Triversity’s Retail Summit and Executive Conference, being held in Phoenix, Arizona, Sept. 18-20.
The Memory of the Internet
22.11.2004
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina sees itself as the successor to the ancient library of Alexandria, which, sponsored by the pharaohs, collected all known writings on over 700,000 papyrus scrolls from antiquity onwards – a collection which was destroyed several times in late antiquity. Its modern successor was opened in the fall of 2002 and as yet contains 255,000 books and 5,000 multimedia objects (eight milion books are planned for 2020). Supported by UNESCO, it has many international financiers, primarily from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, but also the French government, and is under the direct authority of the Egyptian president Mubarak. In 2002, it launched the “Wayback Machine”, a freely accessible Internet archive search machine that goes back to 1996, a copy of the one in San Francisco and just the second archive of its kind in the world. Users simply enter the URL they are looking for in the address field and can surf just like in the current world wide web. Dr. Noha Adly, head of the Internet archive, explains how they archive the dynamic WWW.
“More diligence in the VC world than in the years of the dotcom bubble”
08.11.2004
Jeff Nolan, Investment Director runs SAP Ventures, which since 1996 has been investing in companies as it intends to find businesses that create shareholders value for everyone involved. At SAP Ventures, the intent is to invest in companies where there’s value for both parties. By design, SAP Ventures is a small worldwide team. There are currently five professionals worldwide and 58 investments have been made in a seven-year period. “One of the largest corporate groups you never hear of,” he said in conversation with SAP INFO online.
Hit Aces with SAP Business One
01.09.2004
The Israel Tennis Center, Israel’s leading provider of tennis activities and services, needed stronger management control over its far-flung, 13-branch network. As a non-profit public organization, the ITC needed a particular focus on P&L branch to branch. Playing against tough competition, SAP Business One won the match, providing the ITC’s managers and staff with a powerful yet intuitive and friendly system to improve both internal efficiency and quality of service to customers.
