22.10.2009
Microsoft launched its much heralded operating system Windows 7 on October 22nd, 2009. SAP.info reveals whether business users can make a smooth transition.
17.08.2009
The UCC at the Technical University of Munich is expanding. It now supplies more than 100 European universities and colleges with SAP applications and services.
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.
19.02.2009
“Open Source has joined the mainstream,” chairman Richard Seibt concluded when wrapping up the Open Source Meets Business conference, held at the end of January 2009 in Nuremberg, Germany. “We’re no longer referring to market shares that have grown. Instead, we’re talking about large and small enterprises working successfully with open source software,” said Seibt, who is also chairman of the Open Source Business Foundation.
15.01.2009
Market meltdowns, gyrating economies, bank failures, and plummeting stocks: no company or investment seems safe. But should companies react by cut back on their IT investments? Claudia Funke, a director in McKinsey & Company’s Munich office, takes a look at why this is not a good idea.
30.10.2008
The new version of SECUDE Secure Login – version 5.0 – is the only secure Single Sign-On (SSO) solution to support the entire SAP portfolio. Thanks to the scenario-based installation wizard, the new version can be implemented in a matter of minutes. What’s more, a new Web client has enabled the application for Linux and Mac OS X.
17.10.2008
About 300 university professors from all over the world learned about business software and its use in research and education at the University Alliances User Group Meeting in Walldorf, Germany. The focal topic this year was Africa.
07.05.2008
SAP has taken a decisive step forward in collaborating on support with its partners. Up until now, SAP channel partners around the world have used SAP support to manage the messages of their customers. Now, the service desk of SAP Solution Manager extends the procedure to the small and midsize customers of channel partners.
13.02.2008
ABAP is alive and kicking. SAP remains committed to further development of the ABAP programming environment on the basis of state-of-the-art software engineering techniques and its users’ changing demands. Examples of how SAP addresses these demands include the enhancement and switch framework and better support of decimal floating point calculations, described in Part 1. Part 2 deals with secondary keys for internal tables, string processing, and new features in the ABAP debugger.
04.01.2008
How meaningful is the growing dialog about green IT? Dennis Pamlin of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) discusses the broad implications of IT companies promoting and contributing to environmental awareness.