High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database
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Five Shades Darker? – What The Diageo “Indirect Access” Judgement Really Means For SAP Customers
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
At last, exactly two years later, the long-awaited sequel to my hit, if overly censored, blog post: Five Shades Of Grey (How software buyers and license managers should be compliant without being submissive). My analysis, subject to the usual IANAL disclaimer, is that the real implications are: Read more Categories: SAP.
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SAP SE revamps application security scanning using simulation and automation
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
SAP’s award-winning FioriDAST project mimics user and attacker behavior to safeguard its web applications. While hackers target companies of all sizes, a tech giant like SAP may have a bigger bull’s eye on its back because of the sensitive data it manages and the critical role its ERP applications play in global businesses.
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SAP launches collaborative AI agents, adds Knowledge Graph
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 8, 2024
At TechEd, SAP said that Joule will include multiple autonomous AI agents, each expert in a particular function, that will collaborate to execute complex workflows. “We But, noted Walter Sun, global head of AI at SAP, in an interview, there is always a human in the loop. SAP also announced that Joule is coming to more of its products.
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SAP’s Customers’ CIOs Face Some Urgent Crucial Decisions
Forrester IT
APRIL 10, 2018
The CIOs of SAP customers need to pay close attention to the vendor’s announcement earlier today with details on how it intends to modernize its software licensing model. Please don’t think that “software licensing” is an esoteric topic that you can delegate to someone a level or two down in your organization.
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SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
SAP customers have a lot to navigate in 2024. Here are five predictions about what will play out for SAP customers as the year goes on, along with follow-on effects and questions SAP customers will have to address in their wake.
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Microsoft joins SAP, Oracle in setting sunset date for legacy ERP support
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. In 2020, SAP announced an innovation commitment for SAP S/4HANA until the end of 2040. Customers have had plenty of warnings about the product’s retirement.
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IBM adopts ‘Rise with SAP’ for internal ERP cloud move
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 10, 2022
IBM’s ERP transformation will be one of the largest under the “Rise with SAP” umbrella — perhaps rivaling that of Microsoft , which announced its own adoption of Rise with SAP for the first stages of its move to S/4HANA in March 2022. In February 2022, SAP named IBM as its first premium supplier for Rise.
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Top 10 business applications stories of 2017
Computer Weekly
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Indirect licensing of SAP software was the big story, with SAP’s victory over Diageo in the High Court proving a tinderbox. AI, machine learning and blockchain oscillated between hype and reality
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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 11, 2023
SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. That’s just as well, as SAP is only promising mainstream support ECC through the end of 2027.
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Microsoft adopts RISE with SAP for internal migration to S/4HANA
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 24, 2022
Microsoft has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella. All three major cloud providers host SAP applications for their customers, and all three run at least some of their internal financial systems on SAP.
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SAP prepares to add Joule generative AI copilot across its apps
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
By year-end, users of a couple of SAP applications should have the option to ask generative AI copilot, Joule, to help with their work — and the company plans to roll the feature out across all its applications one by one in the years to come. ServiceNow, the last to announce, will likely be the first to deliver.
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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. SAP has made a number of moves since then to help enterprises make the move.
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SAP Q2 results a mixed bag
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 21, 2022
SAP announced its Q2 2022 results yesterday, reporting revenue of €7.5 SAP’s IFRS operating profit was down 32% to €673 million and its non-IFRS profit was down 13% to €1.68 In its Q2 statement, SAP said it still expects to see those losses. The Applications, Technology and Services segment was up 11% to €7.1
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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 13, 2023
The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.
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SAP cloud sales jump, fueling a rise in revenue
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Fueled by strong sales of cloud-based ERP software that more than offset a decline in revenue from on-premises applications, SAP revenue jumped in the third quarter compared to the year-earlier period, according to company’s quarterly financial report, released Tuesday. Total revenue for the quarter ending Sept. billion (US$7.72
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8 strategic imperatives for SAP transformation success
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 11, 2022
SAP, for example, has launched its RISE offering , including reimagined partnerships with AWS, Google, and Microsoft as well as its consulting partners such as Accenture and IBM to bring a vertically integrated solution to market. Choosing SAP S/4HANA RISE vs. perpetual license model. Establishing an SAP partner strategy.
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3 benefits of engaging hyperscalers when evaluating SAP RISE
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 21, 2023
Since SAP RISE came to the market, it seems that SAP’s goal is to force organizations into a relatively unproven and inflexible RISE model. To do so, they are obfuscating reality, limiting transparency, and changing their historic business practices to make RISE appear financially superior to the traditional perpetual license models.
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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 16, 2022
Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. What could be worse than to plan for an event that requires the scaling of an application’s infrastructure only to have it all fall flat on its face when the time comes?”.
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Leonardo and the Connected Fleet
IT Toolbox
MAY 28, 2017
SAP Leonardo includes application licenses, analytics licenses, IoT Services on the SAP Cloud platform, and machine learning microservices, each of which has its own subscription price. It also includes consulting under Leonardo Innovation services.
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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
That would have been an enviable situation for many of his contemporaries in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry — “Some have 20 or 30 different ERP solutions,” he says — but for Grayling, the 20% of the business still running on a legacy SAP product remained a source of discomfort, and something he wanted to change.
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SAP user groups see pick-up in migration to S/4HANA
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA continues to climb despite the obstacles in its way, according to new research by user groups in the US and Europe. In the UK and Ireland, 89% of SAP customers are either using or planning to use S/4HANA, up from 74% in 2021, according to a survey conducted for the UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG).
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Acumatica jabs at SAP Concur with new expense reporting features in latest challenge to tech titans
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Business technology company Acumatica expanded its expense reporting capabilities as part of a broader wave of product updates this week, promising a lower-priced alternative to offerings from SAP Concur, the travel and expense management powerhouse based a short drive away in Bellevue, Wash. billion euros in revenue for the period.
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The phased approach to S/4HANA migration at Zeiss
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
The SAP transformation Zeiss CIO Carsten Trapp wants is not really a big deal for the corporate IT department. Like all other companies, we’re doing it right now because SAP will end support for R/3 and become S/4 , so at some point you’ll be there.” The pilots are structured based on an organization: that did not previously have SAP.
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Nearly 25% of SAP ECC customers unsure about their future
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 6, 2024
The future of SAP architectures is hybrid. But according to a survey conducted by the Financials subgroup of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG), where exactly the journey will go has not yet been decided for many organizations. One quarter (24%) are seeking to migrate to S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with RISE with SAP.
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SAP seeks to make builders of business technologists
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
SAP’s new platform, SAP Build, aims to give business technologists — or builders, as SAP calls them — secure access to business processes and data to augment enterprise applications and automate processes through a drag-and-drop interface, while letting CIOs manage that access.
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SAP 2023 outlook: 7 predictions for customers
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 14, 2023
With the threat of a recession looming, cost pressures increasing, and the deadline to move off SAP ECC swiftly approaching, SAP customers have a lot to consider as they plan for the year ahead. Here are some of the trends we expect to play out as the year goes on, specifically for SAP customers.
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Making sense of SAP RISE: 4 key considerations
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 24, 2023
After two years on the market, SAP RISE is becoming increasingly positioned by SAP as a solution for customers looking to move to the cloud. Despite SAP pushing RISE as an ideal option for customers, it is still important to evaluate your options against your own goals and objectives.
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Oracle: Latest news and insights
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The company is increasingly focused on supporting generative AI across its database, infrastructure, and applications offerings. Oracle APEX adds generative AI assistant June 18, 2024: APEX AI Assistant allows users to create applications using natural language and add a conversational AI interface to any application being developed.
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IBM is using VMware Cloud Foundation to help enterprises address challenges and accelerate innovation
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2024
IBM and VMware understand that each client has a unique business, IT process and applications,” says Badlaney. VMware Cloud Foundation is a refreshed strategy that offers IBM and VMware clients the ability to bring multiple offerings and licenses to IBM Cloud.
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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks
Trends in the Living Networks
MAY 31, 2007
is how it converts Inputs (User Generated Content, Opinions, Applications), through a series of Mechanisms (Technologies, Recombination, Collaborative Filtering, Structures, Syndication) to Emergent Outcomes that are of value to the entire community. . * There are three key parts to the Web 2.0 Framework, as shown below: Web 2.0
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IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 7, 2023
IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. of a projected $483 billion enterprise applications software spend in 2027, according to the study.
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3 tough decisions for IT leaders to achieve a successful digital transformation
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 10, 2023
Reducing technical debt Lowering technical debt by decommissioning legacy applications ranks among the most important and toughest aspects of digital transformation as it involves mindset changes. We leveraged lower cost licensing because of our global contracts,” he adds. To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring.
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UK Power Networks gets smart about cloud transformation
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 12, 2024
UK Power Networks was created following a merger of three licensed electricity distribution networks brought together under one roof in 2010 by EDF Energy Networks, where Webb served as head of enterprise data management.
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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy
GeekWire
MARCH 23, 2021
He noted that Selipsky was able to get a unique view into cloud-based applications and their importance under the direction of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Cloud-based applications that allow organizations to work more efficiently is an area where Amazon has not historically shown strength, but could be part of AWS’ next frontier. .
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IT as a catalyst for business transformation: Strategies for CIOs
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 24, 2023
Where the widespread adoption of SaaS previously distributed IT and lines-of-business selected and implemented their own applications, the pendulum is now shifting back with CIOs pursuing large-scale transformations to drive value and re-centralize operations. Plus, the IT organization itself can be fertile ground for automation.
Announcing the 2008 Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list – Launch is on 19 June - Trends in the Living Networks
Trends in the Living Networks
MAY 11, 2008
Applications list – Launch is on 19 June Ross Dawson, May 11, 2008 3:38 PM US PT [UPDATE:] The final Top 100 list is now up. Applications. Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook Tags : australia , brw , online applications , web 2.0 Following the great success of last year’s Top 60 Web 2.0
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Is an integrated ERP suite or a composable ERP strategy right for you?
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Such a move requires a foundational mindset shift — from forcing processes to fit within a rigid, tightly integrated application to a portfolio approach that builds out around the core ERP suite. The modular nature of the composable ERP philosophy allows IT decision-makers to plug different SaaS applications into their core system.
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Why is Salesforce hiking prices, and how does it affect customers?
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 13, 2023
For example, Microsoft announced a price increase for its 365 suite in the range of 8%-20%, depending on the edition, in late 2021; SAP increased its maintenance pricing by up to 3.3% CRM Systems, Enterprise Applications in late 2022; and Slack increased prices by 8%-9% around the same time.
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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 9, 2008
Similarly, there is no question that mobile social networking will be a pervasive application, once the early attempts are used as a foundation to provide a platform that really provides what people are comfortable with. Perhaps the application Arrington refers to will break through after only mildly successful attempts so far.
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60 Value Networks Masterclass in New Zealand with Verna Allee - Trends in the Living Networks
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 30, 2007
Yet one of the most powerful applications of network approaches works at the very highest level – that of the how value flows through these networks. Organizations such as Cisco, Boeing, SAP, and others are ardent proponents and users of value networks approaches. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0
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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 19, 2024
Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. The 2010s: Autonomy’s unravelling September 2010: Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is named CEO of HP. Enterprise Applications, HP, Mergers and Acquisitions
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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 23, 2023
In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services. And it will soon offer Microsoft 365 subscribers a new application combining features of PowerPoint with OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 image generator.
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Unified commerce elevates customer experience for Hippo Stores
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 15, 2023
For instance, Satyanath deployed SAP HANA because “there was no strategic advantage to be had in building our own ERP,” he says. When the online ecommerce application was complete in 2020, it could enroll customers and ingest products and prices from downstream applications. To gain agility, we had to build technology in-house.
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