RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council Updated Delays spark fears of £500K legacy support bill, plans for new financial year Databases15 Mar 2024 | 10
SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower Complainant moved to 'retire in place' role after Sarbanes Oxley Act report, filing alleges SaaS14 Mar 2024 | 10
March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club Patch Tuesday Critical bugs galore among 61 Microsoft fixes, 56 from Adobe, a dozen from SAP, and a fistful from Fortinet Patches13 Mar 2024 | 8
City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI Databases19 Feb 2024 | 43
SAP makes last-minute change to replacement of 80-year-old co-founder After lining up someone to fill Hasso Plattner's seat, German ERP giant finds candidate has 'difference in perspective' Databases12 Feb 2024 | 5
India probes SAP and IBM over ancient Air India ERP tender Procurement process in 2011 deal raises suspicions Legal07 Feb 2024 | 1
SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 89
SAP dangles juicy carrot to pull users on board with cloud-first vision Limited-time offer may reduce cost of migration by up to 50% Databases30 Jan 2024 | 2
€2B SAP restructure program will affect 8,000 roles Plans announced as profits fall and revenues rise Databases24 Jan 2024 | 1
Asda's delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart's backend support contract Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit Databases23 Jan 2024 | 19
SAP to cough up $220M to drag bribery charges into recycle bin Enterprise software giant claims it has cut ties with bad apples Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 17
SAP reshuffles leadership as cloud crusade continues New moves follow year where customers complained it broke their trust Databases10 Jan 2024 | 3
SAP admits attempt to adapt on-prem security for its cloud flopped Software giant learned the hard way that lift-and-shift isn’t easy Off-Prem14 Dec 2023 | 9
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 | 60
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 | 238
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