Category: SAP

Life goes on without Shai

“Today,” as the expression goes, “is the first day in the rest of your life.” The old saw works for the corporate life and even companies. Monday, April 2, marks the first day in the rest of SAP’s life, but it’s a life they’ll be starting anew today without Shai Agassi. In a software-side headline-making […]

You can call me Al (Osais)

Al Osais International Holding Company, one of Saudi Arabia’s larger diversified businesses, has announced the selection of SAP for its ERP solution. First implementation will be in the construction firm Al Osais Contracting Company. SAP’s Engineering, Construction and Operations Solutions will be introduced to Al Osais Contracting, a firm involved in various sorts of commercial […]

SAP ERP hits 1,000

SAP’s come out in 2007 with guns a-blazin’… Today company representatives announced the firm’s 1,000th customer going live on enterprise service-oriented architecture mySAP ERP 2005. mySAP now lays claim to the record for “fastest adoption rate of an ERP release in the history of the company.” With the announcement, SAP PR took the time to […]

SAP CRM for BBH

SAP AG announced a nice client win today, with document processing and postal specialist Böwe Bell & Howell will replace its extant CRM system with mySAP Customer Relationship Management. BBH will roll out mySAP CRM initially within its North American service organization and later extend implementation throughout parent company operations worldwide. BBH plans to link […]

SAP has plans for Egypt

While SAP HQ was detailing its “new game changing approach to the mid-market” (i.e. the development of a hosted suite of business applications for the midmarket) ‘Stateside, SAP Arabia outlined details of its upcoming participation at Cairo ICT 2007. The annual show is Egypt’s largest IT exhibition. SAP Arabia will be taking the opportunity presented […]

Infor in Sweden, SAP’s face

Enterprise software provider Infor has announced that Folksam, a leading Swedish insurance company, has chosen Infor CRM Epiphany to “implement its five-year CRM vision.” Said vision actually began in 2003 and, in the master plan, Infor CRM Epiphany enables Folksam to implement the user interface for the CRM strategy. The project’s initial phase focused on […]

SAP’s new numbers and strategy

With its annual conference to report full-year fiscal results, SAP AG unveiled its “new game changing approach to the mid-market.” First and foremost has SAP developing a hosted suite of business applications for the midmarket, in hopes of “attract[ing] an untapped segment of customers with the promise of faster implementation and lower ownership costs.” Seeking […]

SAP in Russia

Who’s happy to be making a few more rubles in the post-Cold War age of 21st century capitalism? SAP, that’s who. The solutions provider closed its calendar year with a couple of announcements coming out of Mother Russia representing some nice kale for the firm. Just after Christmas, the Second Generating Company of the Electric […]

ISS implements mySAP ERP at PT Socfin

ISS Consulting Solutions Bhd has announced the successful implementation of its mySAP ERP at Indonesian plantation company PT Socfin Indonesia. The Socfin project took six months to complete, and ISS reckons completion proves the firm has “the expertise to implement mySAP solutions for customers in the agriculture industry.” Socfin produces oil palm and rubber products, […]

Intelliworks gets more Middle East work

Intelligroup Inc. a consulting, business optimization and outsourcing company, announced that it received a cool $1.5 million contract from Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company, a manufacturer of petrochemical products in the Middle East, to implement the latest version of mySAP ERP 2005 to update and enhance GPIC’s current IT infrastructure. The mySAP ERP 2005 implementation will […]