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Oracle and SAP fail to settle TomorrowNow lawsuit

Oracle and SAP held settlement talks Monday in their TomorrowNow lawsuit but failed to reach an agreement that would end the case.

| News | Legal | 10/07/08 at 9:46 am |


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SAP warns on Q3 earnings, cites economy

Turmoil in the world's stock markets over the past several weeks and resulting concern among customers caused "a very sudden and unexpected drop in business activity" at the end of SAP's third fiscal quarter, the company said Monday.

| News | Business | 10/06/08 at 3:31 pm |


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Inside one of SAP's smallest ERP success stories

Artisan Hardwood Floors' purchase of SAP's BusinessOne ERP software in late 2007 wasn't anything that triggered a gushing press release from SAP's PR staff. It most likely didn't hit the radar screens of SAP CEO Henning Kagermann or CEO-in-waiting Leo Apotheker over in Walldorf, Germany. But it's a telling story, nevertheless, that starts with a "de facto" CIO and no IT staff, disparate systems, and almost no customer knowledge of SAP's ERP expertise.

| Feature | CRM | Small business | 09/29/08 at 10:25 am |


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Amid ERP skills shortage, customers look to SaaS choices

Due to an acute skills shortage in enterprise software circles that's hitting SMBs especially, a new and critical selection criterion has been added to the top of the mix: Availability of resources to help implement the SAP or Oracle software.

| Feature | SaaS | Small business | 09/11/08 at 9:22 pm |


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