SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA Databases30 Nov 2023 | 11
SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority Databases07 Nov 2023 | 2
IBM outlines Asian growth ambitions with acquisition of Indonesian ERP consultancy SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue Software01 Nov 2023 | 2
SAP barely moving needle to migrate users off ECC before support ends Gartner finds only a third are somewhat prepared for S/4HANA transition Databases11 Oct 2023 | 7
SAP customers on brink of ERPocalypse as 2025 support cliff looms for ECC When German vendor promised service until 2027, not everyone qualified Databases10 Oct 2023 | 10
Qualtrics culls 780 jobs amid 'complex' growth spurt Staff get Zoom meeting to hear how they might be hit after phase of rapid hiring ends Software09 Oct 2023 | 6
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 |