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Techies at Europe's biggest council have 8 weeks to pull finance reports from Oracle system

Auditors issue new deadline following ill-fated migration

Public Sector02 Oct 2023 | 72

More and more LLMs in biz products, but who'll take responsibility for their output?

ServiceNow and SAP join the genAI frenzy, but users advised to 'keep a human in the loop'

AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 9

NTT will take those SAP licenses off your hands if it helps ease cloud migration

Bid to break impasse where boards only see costs

Databases28 Sep 2023 | 5

Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy

Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment

Databases18 Sep 2023 | 58

Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?

Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed

Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101

SAP user group calls for support deadline reprieve amid hospital billing worries

Schedule is unrealistic... it takes 2 years just to tender, protests board member

Databases06 Sep 2023 | 13

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability

Databases05 Sep 2023 | 236

Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP's cloud pitch trades control for convenience

Updated Analyst firm warns that users need to understand what it is they're buying

PaaS + IaaS01 Sep 2023 | 1

S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds

Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart

PaaS + IaaS08 Aug 2023 | 35

SAP CEO push for cloud-only 'innovation' shatters users' trust in German-speaking heartlands

UK and German user groups issue strong statements after Klein courts investors with cloud strategy

Databases03 Aug 2023 | 12

£214m effort to modernize SAP ERP in UK govt systems marked Code Red

Experts warn agreement needed and skills lacking in HMRC-led project

Databases27 Jul 2023 | 28

SAP checks cloud forecast to find it's not raining as much revenue as hoped

Yet mission vital to ERP giant's financial future remains on track

Databases21 Jul 2023 |

SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation

Exclusive Four disks believed stolen from Walldorf facility, at least one containing company data

Storage21 Jun 2023 | 49

SAP admits HANA Cloud makes for multicurrency messes

Singapore dollar snafu used to illustrate workaround

Software20 Jun 2023 | 13

Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation

Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As

SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 14

SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users

ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility

Databases23 May 2023 | 3

SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade

HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms

AI + ML17 May 2023 | 2

SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings

50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids

AI + ML03 May 2023 | 4

SAP users not happy about German giant's price rises

Issues remain in the costs for development and quality assurance in the cloud

Databases02 May 2023 | 14

Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this?

Databases26 Apr 2023 | 44

It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors

That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable

CxO21 Apr 2023 | 12

April Patch Tuesday: Ransomware gangs already exploiting this Windows bug

Plus Google, SAP, Adobe and Cisco emit fixes

Patches11 Apr 2023 | 9

Fujitsu sets out on 5-year mission to standardize ERP on SAP S/4HANA

To that we say good luck

PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2023 | 9

Users slam SAP's public cloud and S/4HANA migration strategy

German-speaking heartlands fear they'll be paying again for features they've already built

Databases05 Apr 2023 | 9

SAP user group: We want the same features on-prem that you put in the cloud

Concerns over multi-million investments customers already made in their on-prem ERP systems

Spotlight on Databases23 Mar 2023 | 7

SAP's in-and-out burger Qualtrics sold to Silver Lake and Canadian pension funds

Someone's still got some cash jangling about after the Silicon Valley Bank mess

Spotlight on Databases14 Mar 2023 | 4

Leave your data where it is, we'll look at it there, says SAP

German software giant opens analytics up to external sources

Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 |

Power behind throne to depart as SAP enters a new era

Board chairman Hasso Plattner lines up successor to take ERP giant into uncharted territory

Databases28 Feb 2023 | 6

IBM cheapens Oracle by delivering promised power-up for some POWER servers

Plus – calm down now – all the fun of OS subscriptions!

Spotlight on Databases15 Feb 2023 | 3

SAP culls 3,000 jobs – and its results weren't even that bad

CRM and industry solutions among biz units targeted, analyst says cuts could be worse

Software26 Jan 2023 | 4

City council cans ERP project, keeps details of replacement supplier secret

New system 'commercially sensitive' but set to go live in October

Government Tech Week23 Jan 2023 | 23

Brit civil service claims there's enough money for mammoth ERP refresh project

Business case and competition said to be helping to close the shortfall

Government Tech Week18 Jan 2023 | 21

University still living in the Nineties seeks help with move to SAP S/4HANA

Tens of millions up for grabs as institution needs to dump legacy code

Databases17 Jan 2023 | 36

NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more

Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penalties

Software13 Jan 2023 | 40

$20m SAP ECC replacement project delayed because UK university unsure what it wants

After 10 month’s deliberation, abandons current competition as ERP support deadline looms

Databases03 Jan 2023 | 12

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 |