July 25, 2008 || New community geared to customer requirements Virtualization Boosts Efficiency
"Virtualization continues to offer great infrastructure agility and cost containment benefits. But taking the technology to the next level will require a well-defined implementation road map and partners who can apply this potential to customers’ business process challenges," explains John Humphreys, program vice president of analyst IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group. "The enterprise virtualization community is a great first step toward bringing the IT community together to deliver on these promises."
June 18, 2008 || SAP Business One at Bukatchi: A Perfect Fit with Business Philosophy
Founded in 2005, Bukatchi is on a growth curve with its innovative and comfortable outdoor furniture. A key to success is its flexible and cost-effective business model. SAP Business One fits the young company to a tee. The solution delivers the flexibility, functionality and user-friendliness that Bukatchi needs for its business.
June 18, 2008 || Tools and best practices from the SAP BPX community: Reaching REACH compliance
Complying with European REACH legislation – the acronym stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals – and processing several thousand substance registrations is a huge operational challenge. It would be impossible to master without a software solution such as the one offered by SAP and TechniData. However, achieving compliance requires more than just implementing the SAP REACH Compliance application: Many businesses must also change their business processes. The SAP Business Process Expert (BPX) community helps access and exchange compliance best practices, tools, and methodologies.
July 10, 2008 || Strong interest in Enterprise SOA More and more Customers use the SAP Enterprise Services Workplace
Great success of the Enterprise Services Workplace (ES Workplace): The SAP platform for the rollout of the SAP Business Suite’s Enterprise Services Portfolio to partners and customers shows growing number of users – by July, the total numbers reached 1,000 page hits per day and the 5,000th registered user for the testing environment.
July 15, 2008 || Four questions for Bill McDermott, SAP Executive Board New Responsibilities in the SAP Sales Organization
On July 1, SAP expanded its management team. The two former regional presidents Bill McDermott (Americas and Asia Pacific Japan) and Erwin Gunst (Europe, Middle East, and Africa, EMEA) joined the Executive Board along with Jim Hagemann Snabe, who is now responsible for all development units behind the SAP Business Suite applications and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. Co-CEO Léo Apotheker said that these three appointments reflect both SAP’s "dynamic business and the superb executive strength of our leadership team."
