SAP

When ERP projects go bad: Surrey County Council's £30m ditch SAP effort delayed again

Existing hold ups already cost millions as UK authority fails to put a price on latest setback

Databases19 Dec 2022 | 14

Don't expect another SAP support deadline extension, user group warns

German software giant unlikely to repeat 2020's concession to users pressure

Databases13 Dec 2022 | 2

SAP still struggling to convert ECC customers to S/4HANA, says Gartner

Latest platform software has not been licensed by two-thirds of legacy users, despite strong growth

Databases06 Dec 2022 | 7

Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users

Updated 'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice'

SaaS25 Nov 2022 | 39

SAP renames developer platform and bundles it with S/4HANA

TechEd But users still need to wait years for business benefits of migration from older systems

Databases17 Nov 2022 |

SAP injects more low code into ERP platform for non-coding biz types

Following AppGyver and Ruum, Build potentially takes pressure off devs’ create-this-feature-now list

Databases15 Nov 2022 | 2

SAP's vision underplays complexity of S/4HANA cloud migration, says Gartner

Difficult decision did not end with RISE with SAP, analyst tells The Reg

Databases10 Nov 2022 | 1

Microsoft squashes six security bugs already exploited in the wild

Patch Tuesday Plus: Fixes from Intel, AMD, Citrix and more

Patches09 Nov 2022 | 5

ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP

Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending

SaaS27 Oct 2022 |

SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled

Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses

Databases25 Oct 2022 | 5

Vodafone to move SAP S/4HANA ERP system to Google Cloud

Spare a thought for the techies hauling on-prem mega-platform of one of world's biggest mobile companies to the fluffy stuff

Databases17 Oct 2022 | 18

SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision

'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios'

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8

It’s Patch Tuesday and still no fix for ProxyNotShell Microsoft Exchange holes

Patch Tuesday And for bonus points, there's a Windows flaw under active exploit

Patches11 Oct 2022 | 21

SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon

User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction

Databases11 Oct 2022 | 1

UK govt launches multibillion procurement for tax agency application services

First chunk of mega-frameworks go to market

Applications11 Oct 2022 | 5

AWS, Microsoft, Google own 72% of Euro customer cloud spending

Democratizing IT? The next biggest 3 in region are also US headquartered giants

Off-Prem29 Sep 2022 | 5

Businesses can halve 'megavendor' software costs with third-party support

COVID-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, growing inflation, and the threat of recession driving adoption

Software23 Sep 2022 |

SAP user group questions value for money amid plans to increase support fees

Unbundling of products, cloud shift, support for older ERP products make customers query inflation-based rise

Applications15 Sep 2022 | 3

Microsoft fixes Windows security hole likely widely exploited by miscreants

Patch Tuesday Plus: Nasty no-auth RCE in TCP/IP stack, Adobe flaws, and many more updates

Patches13 Sep 2022 | 14

SAP to increase support fees in January to offset inflation costs

Maintenance and software installation prices heading north for range of agreements

Applications12 Sep 2022 | 3

SAP picks Airbus finance chief Dominik Asam for next CFO

Set to take the controls next year as software giant executes tricky maneuver in the cloud

SaaS31 Aug 2022 |

Analysts question pace of SAP users moving to S/4HANA

CEO claims 60 percent of deployments are new buyers. It may all depend on how you define deployment

Software22 Jul 2022 | 2

SAP lowers profit outlook due to cost of Russian withdrawal

Sticker shock: Russia, Belarus withdraw to cost it more than initially thought.

Applications21 Jul 2022 |

Hundreds of millions up for grabs as UK taxman set to stick with SAP ECC6.0

Updated Support for finance system ends in 2027, leaving questions for HMRC

Databases19 Jul 2022 | 3

SAP unlikely to see most customers move from ECC before support ends

But those who show willing in S/4HANA upgrade might see existing ERP support extended, says Gartner

Databases08 Jul 2022 |

Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything

Analysis Snowflake last week promised analytics and transactions in the same system. For some it was déjà vu all over again

Databases22 Jun 2022 | 6

UK's Post Office shells out for SAP software it thought it had

'Significantly under-licenced' but didn't factor in Customer Success Manager when dealing with reseller

Applications21 Jun 2022 | 15

SAP attracts further criticism for Russia presence, despite promise to leave

The software giant's 'orderly exit' appears to be ongoing

Applications24 May 2022 | 11

What 'share of wallet' means and why it matters to SAP

German software giant reprises old motifs at annual show Sapphire

Databases12 May 2022 | 3

Microsoft closes Windows LSA hole under active attack

Plus many more flaws. And Adobe, Android, SAP join the bug-squashing frenzy

Patches11 May 2022 | 8

SAP to divest CRM education software in bid to streamline

Area no longer a priority as cloud migration takes center stage, deal of around $1b in the offing, reports say

Applications04 May 2022 |

SAP to take €130m hit on withdrawing tech support from Russia

Outlook unaffected by decisions which followed pressure from Ukraine's vice prime minister

Applications22 Apr 2022 | 5

Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations

On-prem software may remain albeit without support nor maintenance

SaaS20 Apr 2022 | 33

SAP hits 50: Entrenched, spread out and fully middle-aged

Feature Tech’s posterchild of German industrial success must face its failures as it succumbs to midlife angst

Databases01 Apr 2022 | 21

SAP users struggling with data management for S/4HANA migration

UK and Ireland survey reveals difficulties with housekeeping

Databases30 Mar 2022 | 8

RISE with SAP struggles to gain purchase with German-speaking users

Investment sentiment for S/4HANA drops off while public cloud hosting only two per cent of environments

Databases24 Mar 2022 | 1

Oracle's compliance cops now include Java in license audits

Paid-for subs introduced three years ago now getting attention from Big Red's management services team

Software22 Mar 2022 | 30

SAP wins competition to replace own ageing system at UK council

£7m Gloucestershire County Council deal the first for RISE with SAP in the UK public sector

Databases22 Mar 2022 | 7

SAP community website leaks member data to savvy users

Database dump accessible via the OData protocol, but software giant says it's working as intended

Security18 Mar 2022 | 2

Northwest England councils in £31m SaaS HR system tender

Procurement comes as Manchester City Council looks for SAP next steps

Databases18 Mar 2022 | 5

SAP to repay $23.1m in water contracts settlement

Tribunal finds evidence of 'irregularly concluded software, support agreements'

Legal17 Mar 2022 | 2

Ukraine president namechecks software giants to end support in Russia

Oracle states it is agreeing to request while SAP and Microsoft decline to comment

Software14 Mar 2022 | 11

Standardizing limits to license hikes for minor software tweaks

Toward a globally recognized standard for understanding business technology assets

Software09 Mar 2022 | 3

Microsoft patches critical remote-code-exec hole in Exchange Server and others

Patch Tuesday And Adobe, SAP, Intel, AMD, Cisco, Google join in

Security09 Mar 2022 | 9

SAP continues to support Russian customers

Oracle and Microsoft remain silent on involvement in existing installations

Software07 Mar 2022 | 17

Oracle, SAP suspend business in Russia amid invasion

As Moscow tries to retain IT talent with military exemption, a three-year tax suspension for biz

SaaS02 Mar 2022 | 14

EU cuts off key Russian banks from SWIFT system

State-owned Sberbank's software contracts under scrutiny

Software02 Mar 2022 | 64

Skills shortage puts SAP projects on hold

Business demand creates double whammy on recruitment pressure

Databases21 Feb 2022 | 47

London university on hunt for £17m SAP ERP replacement

Institution also relies on German vendor for data warehouse software

PaaS + IaaS18 Feb 2022 | 19

English county council blasted for 'inept project management' in delayed SAP replacement

Questions remain over whether Surrey's £3.2m budget increase will avoid further delay

Databases10 Feb 2022 | 25

Microsoft manages a mere 51 security fixes for February update bundle

Patch Tuesday Excitement this month can be found in SAP code, with critical Log4j repairs and a CISA warning

Security09 Feb 2022 | 5

Western Australia Health taps SAP and Deloitte for AU$220m SaaS HR system over 10 years

Now, don't do a Queensland

Databases04 Feb 2022 | 9

Despite growth, questions remain over whether SAP can get customers off-prem fast enough to appease investors

€500m cloud investments drag on profit

Databases28 Jan 2022 | 12

ServiceNow CEO says mergers and acquisitions are off the table – too messy

It's as if Bill McDermott's SAP tenure never happened

SaaS27 Jan 2022 | 11

Team behind delayed ERP project was aware of problems but didn't inform Surrey County Council for months

Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority

Databases24 Jan 2022 | 25

And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good

Let's not mention on-premise licences....

Databases15 Jan 2022 | 2