Posts Tagged ‘SAP’

HP stamps on a Times article alleging the two chief executives had discussed a sale.

Last year, Salesforce’s worldwide CRM software annual revenue grew 26 percent to $2.5 billion, overtaking SAP’s CRM sales figure of $2.3 billion, which only grew by 0.1 percent over the same period. The pair’s market share for 2012 stood at 14 and 12.9 percent, respectively.

Few can deny the area of governance, risk and compliance has experienced a revival over the last year, indicated by a dearth of new start-ups and legacy players touting innovative offerings. One of the biggest catalysts driving GRCs growth is the cloud.

IBM unveils MobileFirst, its strategy for addressing the total mobile enablement and support, in which it will provide tools for managing, secure and enhancing tablets and smartphones. The vision goes beyond what most mobile device and applications vendors are doing today and could change the mobile landscape.

Sage Group officials last week insisted the global software maker remains committed to its CRM business despite announcing the sale of a number of its CRM products.

Amazon Web Services makes Amazon Redshift globally available, bringing scalable and easy-to-use data warehousing capabilities to the cloud. With major business analytic vendors like SAP and IBM on board, AWS continues to grow into a powerhouse cloud provider.

How do your vendors’ portals stack up? Channelnomics subjectively rated some of the most popular partner portals on a scale of one (worst) to five (best) based on design, ease of use, relevance of search criteria and usefulness of the results. Here’s what we found.

Amazon.com’s AWS platform earns full SAP certification, bringing the whole of SAP Business Suite to the AWS platform. Additionally, AWS providers can now tag S3 and RDS instances, helping them keep track of resources and costs.

NetApp and SAP promise an expansion their partnership to bolster the development of SAP solutions that leverage SAP’s in-memory database capabilities, enhanced by NetApp’s focus on accelerated storage management and data delivery solutions.

SAP unveils a new rapid deployment solution (RDS), linking together SAP ERP to SuccessFactors’ Business Execution Suite. It’s likely SAP will unveil more RDS solutions as SuccessFactors partners roll into the expanding cloud portfolio of the SAP PartnerEdge program.