The Ministry of Justice went to unusual lengths to select its new core software platform, hiring nine rooms in Wellington’s Westpac Stadium in 2005 and bringing in users from around the country to give their verdicts on three different options.
The cost of an SAP project at Waitakere City Council has grown from an initial estimate of $1.6 million to $2.47 million, an increase of $869,000, after changes to the project’s scope and timeline.
Service-oriented architectures are supposed to spell doom for the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market dominated by SAP and Oracle — at least that’s what AMR Research predicted a year ago.
SAP has shown a new version of its Business One small business software to US channel partners in advance of a general release of the product later this year.
SAP and IBM will partner to take SAP All-in-One industry-specific ERP systems into the New Zealand small and mid-sized enterprise market. IBM will deliver SAP All-in-One and its own portfolio of All-in-One implementation systems under the brand name IBM Express Solutions.
Oracle plans to pay US$495 million (NZ$671 million) to buy Agile Software, a maker of product lifecycle management software.
Construction and engineering services company United Group is rolling out SAP’s ERP business suite across its infrastructure, rail and resources divisions.
When Shai Agassi left SAP at the beginning of this month to pursue personal interests in alternative energy and environmental policy, it shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise. After all, Agassi was a serial entrepreneur throughout the 1990s, starting several software companies in his native Israel; he only joined a global company in 2001, when SAP bought TopTier, which he co-founded and sold to the German software giant for $US400 million.
Twenty years of working with an in-house manufacturing system is coming to an end at Christchurch-based Skope Industries, because supporting the technology has become too difficult.
Dramatic growth in the scope and size of the SAP system run by state-owned enterprise OnTrack, which maintains the country’s railway infrastructure, has led the company to seek more system support.
Hewlett-Packard is offering more services supporting SAP’s SOA (service-oriented architecture) approach to IT as part of the companies’ increasingly close relationship.
New Zealand software developer and SAP partner Enprise Solutions has won an award at SAP’s FKOM (Field Kick Off Meeting), an event for its channel partners, held recently in Las Vegas.
Soltius, formerly Intelligroup, is making its mark as a SAP reseller to mid-range New Zealand companies.
SAP has made an undisclosed investment in a Visiprise, which develops integration software for manufacturing companies that use SAP NetWeaver.
EMC and Microsoft are stepping up their existing enterprise content management (ECM) relationship substantially to provide tighter integration between EMC’s Documentum ECM software and Microsoft’s Office, Outlook and SharePoint products.