SAP SAPPHIRE 07 VIENNA Post 4 – Ditching Oracle for DB2

Rumour has it that SAP is taking steps to ditch use of Oracle database for IBM’s DB2. The annual cost for use of Oracle database is around $800m, according to Paul Bhuhi, ERP Solutions Director of Computer Sciences Corporation, one of the largest system integrators in the world. Will this inflate the dirty tricks campaign […]

SAP SAPPHIRE 07 VIENNA Post 3 – Round up of posts from 13th to 16th inclusive

Here is a list of blog posts from the bloggers sponsored by SAP, attending SAP European annual event in Vienna: David Terrar – Business Two Zero SAP’s mid market strategy with SaaS SAPPHIRE 07 asides SAP’s mid market strategy, A1S and a demo of sorts Kagermann’s keynote – numbers and confidence at the speed of […]

SAP Sapphire 07 Atlanta Online for SRM & SCM

More than 220 informative and insightful presentations were given at the Sap’s North American Annual Event, SAP Sapphire 07 Atlanta, by SAP personnel, their customers, partners and independent analysts. Here is my pick on Supply Relationship Management (SRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM): Automating Financial Processes: Imaging, OCR, E-Invoicing, and More by  Larry Concannon, Director […]

Anish’s Old Company getting ready for its £500m IPO

Anish Kapoor, co-founder of Yuuguu was a co-founder of Telecity with Mike Kelly of Manchester University during the first dot.com boom. Telecity was one of the darlings of the Internet boom achieving £1bn market capitalisation but collapsed with the dot.com collapse. After taking over Redbus and with the second dot.com boom taking place as we […]

Aberdeen Benchmark Report -“E-Payables: Advancing A/P Automation” – Grab now for free…

If you are interested in the above report, it can be grabbed for free here until end of May 2007, thanks to Andrew Bartolini of the Aberdeen Group. Andrew has also suggested doing a Q&A session through this blog. I am yet to work out the details. Perhaps this could be around following topics (extending […]