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The Motley Fool
October 23, 2006
Tom Taulli |
SAP Still Not Serious About M&A Third-quarter results were much improved, but intense competition from Oracle clouds the picture. Investors, take note.   |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2006
Tom Taulli |
SAP Gets Zapped SAP has always been conservative on guidance, but the company finally missed its numbers -- in a big way. Investors, take note. |
CRM
December 1, 2007
Coreen Bailor |
SAP's Midmarket Design SAP Business ByDesign is the company's new on-demand midmarket product; much of its success hinges on SAP's channel strategy. |
CRM
June 1, 2007
Colin Beasty |
SAP Loses Visionary Agassi Over CEO Rift Shai Agassi's resignation from SAP triggered a major realignment of the SAP executive board and has left industry pundits and customers alike wondering how the exit of the whiz kid will influence SAP's product strategy and road map. |
InternetNews
October 18, 2007
Larry Barrett |
SAP Shows Solid Earnings, Firm Stance Against Oracle Strong license sales boosted SAP's profits, and it announced a sweet deal with retail giant Wal-Mart. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2006
David Needle |
SAP Plays On-Demand Field SAP's on-demand solution is for customer relationship management and builds on the company's mySAP CRM software, a more traditional on-premises software solution. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2010 |
Will SAP's Earnings Renew Investor Optimism? SAP has seen better days and now must find away to break out of its recent stupor to give investors some hope and perhaps regain a bit of its own swagger. |
CRM
August 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
On the Scene: SAPPHIRE '06: SAP Continues Its Enterprise SOA Push The enterprise software company underscores its on-demand CRM capabilities while continuing with its enterprise services architecture approach. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
Tom Taulli |
SAP Still Thinking Small The latest acquisition will have a minimal impact on the software giant. The stock is off 10% this year, and although it has begun to stabilize, it's not clear what the catalysts will be to get things moving in the right direction for investors. |
InternetNews
November 4, 2010 |
Larry Ellison Set to Testify in SAP Case SAP has offered to pay Oracle $120 million to pay its legal fees; meanwhile Oracle subpoenas former SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker to testify. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Score One for Oracle The battle continues among the software giants, as SAP makes a surprising admission. The main thing for investors to consider is that Oracle has a clear strategy for growth: buying up companies. |
InternetNews
March 28, 2007
Michael Hickins |
SAP's Chief Software Architect Calls it Quits SAP announced today that its supervisory board has accepted the resignation of chief software architect Shai Agassi, who said he is leaving in order to devote himself to environmental issues. |
InternetNews
February 8, 2010 |
SAP's CEO Ouster Latest Indication of Troubles Leo Apotheker is out as the enterprise software giant looks to shore up its lines of business. Analysts take a look at the impact. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Competitors Await SAP's On-Demand Threat After spending nearly two years and about half a billion dollars to develop it, SAP's A1S product is ready for prime-time. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2010 |
SAP CEOs Share Plans for SaaS, Battling Oracle The pair of software executives talk up Business ByDesign and take a few shots at rivals. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2005
Tom Taulli |
SAP Gears Up for Battle Oracle's Ellison has made SAP enemy No. 1. But SAP is fighting back the right way: by getting customers. Despite the strong performance, SAP's stock price slid $0.92 to $39.38. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2007
Tom Taulli |
SAP Goes Big The major business-software company jolts Wall Street with a transformative deal, agreeing to spend $6.8 billion for Business Objects. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Welcome to the Party, NetSuite After months of preparation, would-be on-demand software star NetSuite is finally in the process of going public. |
InternetNews
April 2, 2008 |
SAP Board to Name Apotheker Co-CEO: Source SAP to change leadership following departure of Plattner protege. |
InternetNews
September 20, 2007
Larry Barrett |
SAP's On-Demand Strategy Draws Tepid Reviews It's early in the game but Wall Street analysts and industry pundits say its Business By Demand service raises more questions than it answers. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Who Will Win The SAP, Oracle Battle? While SAP and Oracle continue to slug it out for the lion's share of the estimated $30 billion-plus that companies spend for business applications and services each year, Salesforce.com's software-as-a-service model is propelling the company to record sales and earnings. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Taking Stock in iPhone Stocks So who might benefit from Apple's new 3G-enabled iPhone? What the iPhone might mean for Salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Nokia, and Research In Motion is discussed in this video. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2007
Tom Taulli |
SAP Goes to the Mat With On-Demand The software giant is moving to the mid-market using some newfangled approaches. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2005
Clint Boulton |
SAP Buys PeopleSoft Support Provider Looking to capitalize on the uncertainty caused by Oracle's $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft, SAP AG acquired TomorrowNow, which provides maintenance and support for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards customers. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2006
Michael Hickins |
SAP's $125M SaaS Attack If software-as-a-service is the future of enterprise apps, is SAP locking the NetWeaver door after the horse has left the market? |
BusinessWeek
May 22, 2006
Steve Hamm |
SAP Dangles A Big, Fat Carrot Will SAP be able to double its market capitalization by 2010? Under Kagermann's leadership -- and with a vigorous push in the back from Plattner -- this is one mature software maker that may be up to the challenge. |
CFO
November 1, 2007
John Edwards |
The Host with the Most SAP boldly goes where a number of other software vendors have already gone: A hosted application aimed at midsize businesses. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2004
Tom Taulli |
A New Breed of Software Company Can the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market re-ignite its stalled-out growth? |
InternetNews
September 19, 2007
Larry Barrett |
SAP: It's 'Business ByDesign' SAP put a name to the buzz when it introduced Business ByDesign, the company's first software-as-a-service offering geared for small and mid-sized businesses. |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Steve Hamm |
Larry, You Picked A Nasty Fight In taking on heavyweight SAP in the corporate applications software market, Oracle faces very long odds. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
What's Behind SAP's Change in Outlook? Some hints from SAP on where it sees IT spending heading. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2006
Stephen Ellis |
Salesforce.com Needs a Reality Check Will Salesforce.com succeed in overcoming trends? Perhaps -- but you wouldn't know it from the stock price. Investors, tread carefully. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Andy Reinhardt |
SAP: A Sea Change In Software The German legend's move into Lego-like modules could revolutionize the way companies do business. |
InternetNews
August 29, 2007
Erin Joyce |
Oracle, SAP Spar Over Discovery The legal strategy is unfolding between enterprise software rivals Oracle and SAP over Oracle's lawsuit charging that SAP stole massive amounts of its intellectual property. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2008
Tim Beyers |
SAP's Would-Be Jedi Master SAP shows growth in its Core Enterprise Applications, but the company pays heavily for that growth. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2010 |
SAP Delivers Business ByDesign Update After months of delays, SAP finally rolls out its refreshed SaaS suite for enterprise and SMB customers looking for on-demand ERP and CRM apps. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2008
Larry Barrett |
Chaos Abounds But SAP's Outlook Remains The Same SAP's 2008 sales forecast is identical to the guidance it offered a year ago. But a lot has changed in the interim. |
CRM
April 1, 2006
Alexandra DeFelice |
SAP's On-Demand Vision What can customers gain from the software giant's hosted offering? |
InternetNews
March 11, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle Woos, SAP Waits For Retek The two largest ERP software companies try to outbid each other in fight for retail software provider. |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Salesforce.com's Platform to Profits Salesforce.com is expanding its platform for on-demand applications. While building this platform is certainly an ambitious move for Salesforce.com, the company has demonstrated that it knows how to follow through, and that it has a ripe market waiting. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2007
Tom Taulli |
IPO Invasion of the On-Demand Operators The global market for on-demand enterprise software was about $4 billion in 2006, and it's expected to grow to $14.5 billion in 2011. The next generation of software players are prepping for public offerings. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
October 6, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
SAP Shares Slide on Earnings Warning Like other IT companies, SAP, already locked in a tussle with Oracle, is hit by the financial crisis. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2010 |
SAP Misses Q2 Estimates, Says SaaS Offering Soon SAP missed analysts' profit targets in its second quarter, mainly as a result of unfavorable currency exchange rates and one-time payouts to former executives. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Oracle's Bizarre Software Triangle Revelations in the Oracle-PeopleSoft trial continue to entertain. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Oracle Releases the Hounds Oracle's lawsuit against SAP is just another small battle in its war for business applications. |
InternetNews
May 5, 2011
Vangie Beat |
SAP Expands StreamWork Collaboration The cloud-based enterprise social networking solution now integrates with SAP customer relationship management (CRM). |
InternetNews
February 20, 2007
Clint Boulton |
SAP Tabs Pilot For Analytics Flight SAP buys Pilot Software to fortify its applications portfolio. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2010 |
SAP's New Analytics Apps Target Big Verticals SAP unwraps a set of 10 new SAP BusinessObjects business analytics applications. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Should SAP Go Shopping for Acquisitions? IBM is looking so smart that SAP wants to follow in Big Blue's footsteps. Here's one suggestion. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2010 |
Wall Street Hopes Salesforce Stays Hot The on-demand CRM and business applications provider is trading at a rarefied price and, thus far, its sales and earnings have justified the lofty valuation. |
