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• SAP and Teradata deepen data warehousing ties

  SAP's NetWeaver Business Warehouse software will soon run natively on Teradata's database for high-end data warehousing and BI, the vendors announced Monday.

• How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People

  Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment-from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment-comes with some amount of risk.

• NetSuite wants a piece of large SAP customers' business

  On-demand ERP vendor NetSuite is targeting large SAP users with a new offering that links its OneWorld application to SAP systems.

• SAP adds Polestar search tool to midmarket BI suite

  SAP on Tuesday announced Business Objects Edge BI 3.1, an upgrade to its midmarket BI suite that includes Polestar, a tool that makes it easier for nontechnical workers to tap BI.

• SAP to virtualise 500 servers with Xen

  Citrix Systems has announced global software company SAP will use its XenServer to virtualise 500 servers by mid-2009.
  

• SAP launches Business Suite 7

  SAP launched Business Suite 7 on Wednesday, pitching the software as a more flexible and cost-effective option amid lean economic times.

• United Nations looks to SAP for ERP system

  The United Nations may be on the verge of installing an ERP system from SAP AG, potentially resulting in one of the largest public-sector deployments to date for the Walldorf, Germany-based software vendor.

• SAP upgrades proceeding but maintenance end a factor

  A new vendor-sponsored survey finds that some European and North American SAP customers are largely continuing with ERP (enterprise resource planning) system upgrades amid the global economic downturn. But the main reason cited was the end of vendor maintenance for their product versions.

• SAP wants Oracle to reveal software, support profit margins

  SAP wants Oracle to reveal profit-margin information for JD Edwards and PeopleSoft software and support, according to a joint discovery statement filed this week in connection with Oracle's lawsuit against SAP.

• SAP project halted after shareholder pressure

  The weak economy has companies of all sizes and types moving to cut costs, and for U.S. bedding manufacturer Select Comfort, those choices have included a decision to halt all work associated with a wide-ranging SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) project. And documents on file with a government regulator indicate that shareholder pressure may have contributed to the move.

• Judge denies most SAP motions to dismiss in Oracle suit

  A judge has rejected most of the motions made by SAP to dismiss parts of rival software maker Oracle's lawsuit against it, according to the decision filed Monday in U.S. District Court-California Northern District.

• SAP user group CEO leaves organization

  Steve Strout, CEO of the Americas SAP Users Group (ASUG), is no longer with the organization, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

• SAP slashes NetWeaver developer subscription price

  Citing the weak economy, SAP has cut the cost of developer subscriptions for its NetWeaver platform by roughly 50 percent, according to a post this week on an official company blog.