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SAP announced the recipients of the SAP Pinnacle Awards 2009, the company's global partner award program that honors and recognizes partners that have made significant contributions to the SAP community and ecosystem in 2008. | 27 May 2009 |
SAP announces SAP® BusinessObjects™ Explorer, groundbreaking new software that brings together search and navigation capabilities from the SAP® BusinessObjects™ portfolio with SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse Accelerator (SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator) software, enabling customers to navigate mountains of business data at the speed of thought and giving them a clear view across their organizations. | 12 May 2009 |
SAP AG and IBM today announced that IBM is one of the first worldwide systems integration and application management services providers to fully adopt the Run SAP methodology. | 04 Feb 2009 |
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled SAP® Business Suite 7, a modular software suite that helps businesses to optimize their performance and reduce IT cost. | 04 Feb 2009 |
IBM and SAP announced an agreement with Marks & Spencer (M&S) to implement a suite of SAP Retail applications. The SAP solution, implemented by IBM, will help provide M&S with accurate business data and robust core processes to help them enhance the customer experience and drive greater control over net margin. | 27 Jan 2009 |
At the annual Lotusphere conference, IBM and SAP announced the planned release date of March for their first joint software product called Alloy™ software by IBM and SAP. IBM and SAP showcased successful early results of this product for several customers including Colgate-Palmolive and Arla Foods at Lotusphere. | 19 Jan 2009 |
IBM announced a new blueprint for customers in the banking sector, aimed at leveraging their mainframe investments for running the SAP® for Banking solutions portfolio and a new reference architecture publication titled "SAP for Banking Solutions on IBM System z" | 22 Dec 2008 |
IBM today unveiled the newest Express Advantage offerings, which include hardware, software, and services specifically developed for midsized businesses. Two new ERP industry specific solutions are qualified SAP Business All-in-One solutions that can help midsize companies improve operational efficiency and lower risk. | 28 Oct 2008 |
IBM expands its Integrated Data Management(IDM) software initiative with new offerings from the Optim ™ portfolio including Optim Data Privacy Solution for SAP Applications. Colgate Palmolive, a leading consumer products firm, chose the Optim Data Privacy Solution for SAP applications to guard its human resources data. | 27 Oct 2008 |
IBM awarded 2008 Outstanding World-Wide Data Management Partner to SAP on Sunday, October 26, 2008 at the IBM Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, NV. | 26 Oct 2008 |
IBM and Dansk Supermarked announce two significant five-year extensions to existing services contracts. The first agreement covers support, maintenance and project enhancement services for SAP based applications. The second is a five-year strategic outsourcing contract for SAP infrastructure hosting and services. | 19 Jun 2008 |
IBM announced open client and partner testing of the new IBM® Optim™ Data Privacy Solution for use with SAP® solutions, which provides advanced enterprise data management and data privacy capabilities in support of SAP applications. | 19 May 2008 |
IBM was awarded three SAP Pinnacle Awards at a special awards ceremony held on the eve of SAPPHIRE Berlin, SAP's international customer conference held May 19 — 21. | 18 May 2008 |
SAP AG revealed plans to further extend its recently announced fast-start program for SAP® Business All-in-One solutions by expanding the strategic partnership with IBM that looks back on a long history of close collaboration in the areas of technology, channel and services. | 05 May 2008 |
IBM today announced a new offering to help small and midsize enterprises rapidly deploy SAP software on IBM Power Systems. The new offering, IBM i InstallOption for SAP, dubbed "KOBI," provides SAP VARs with a pre-configured and fully-customized installation routine for SAP Business All-in-One solutions. | 02 May 2008 |
IBM announced breakthrough scalability and performance running the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator on IBM BladeCenter servers. Extensive testing reveals clients can now scale up to 140 IBM BladeCenter servers as needed to improve system response time and more easily manage the exponential growth of information. | 02 May 2008 |
At the annual Lotusphere® conference, before 7,000 customers and partners, IBM and SAP AG announced plans to deliver their first joint software product codenamed Atlantic that will integrate IBM Lotus Notes® software with SAP Business Suite. | 21 Jan 2008 |
SAP America named the winners of its 2007 Small and Midsize Enterprise (SME) Business Partner Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada during its 2008 Field Kick Off Meeting (FKOM). IBM received the Growth Leader Award, awarded to the SAP technology and SAP Business All-in-One partner with the most improved revenue growth figures. | 16 Jan 2008 |
SAP AG announced an industry value network (IVN) for insurance that will bring together independent software vendors, system integrators, including IBM, and SAP to co-innovate with insurers to help them improve profits, customer relationships and competitive position via effective applications & a flexible IT environment. | 13 Nov 2007 |
IBM announced the growth of its Express Advantage strategy for mid-sized businesses with new solutions that combine IBM offerings with leading ISV applications including IBM Express Automotive Supplier Solution, a qualified SAP All-in-One solution and IBM Express Chemical Solution, a qualified SAP All-in-One solution. | 09 Oct 2007 |
With governance, risk and compliance (GRC) issues acknowledged by leading industry analysts as the number one driver of identity management projects at organizations worldwide, SAP, together with leading identity management software providers including IBM, is responding to the challenges. | 02 Oct 2007 |
IBM today announced new features and enhancements to its software portfolio to help customers deliver higher quality, more secure applications to the market and to help customers manage requirements and change associated with application deployments. | 19 Sep 2007 |
SAP and IBM expane their partnership to serve midsize companies thru reseller agreements in India. SAP & local IBM Business Partners will focus on industries including wholesale distribution, life sciences, retail, industrial machinery, and construction & engineering. The solutions include IBM hardware, software & services. | 13 Aug 2007 |
On May 13, the eve of SAPPHIRE Vienna, SAP named the winners of its global partner recognition program: the SAP Pinnacle Awards, at an exclusive awards ceremony. IBM was a winner in three categories: Regional Excellence-IBM Americas, Enterprise SOA-IBM GBS, and Channels (SME/SMB)-SAP Italia Consulting SpA, an IBM Company | 14 May 2007 |
BearingPoint study: I2V Intelligent IT Virtualization for SAP System Landscapes shows that IBM POWER5 architecture pays dividends quickly, cutting over 30% of IT costs in a 3-year period. Companies also gain an extremely flexible IT infrastructure that adapts on demand, as shown by IBM customer Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG | 14 May 2007 |
In continuing evidence of its leadership as an enterprise software provider of choice in the worldwide retail sector, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced further strides in advancing the integrated retail point-of-sale (POS) solutions that are helping retailers around the world boost sales in a highly competitive market. | 24 Apr 2007 |
SAP AG and IBM today announced the expansion of their partnership to serve midsize companies in a total of 12 countries through reseller agreements for SAP® All–in–One solutions, building on last year’s announcement in the United States. | 23 Apr 2007 |
NextLabs™ Inc., a leading privately-held developer of policy-based automated information control solutions, and IBM, the leading global IT services provider, today announced the availability of eGRC for Information Export Control through collaboration with SAP AG. | 23 Apr 2007 |
SAP AG has announced its 8th industry-focused collaboration effort, the industry value network (IVN) for oil and gas. IBM is a member of this IVN and will collaborate to deliver solutions and integration scenarios to address industry-specific pain points. | 30 Jan 2007 |
The Norwegian Armed Forces and IBM signed a contract earlier this week for the continued development of a Joint Integrated Management Information System for the Armed Forces. The contract for the project, called The Economy project, includes solutions for accounting, management and logistics, based on SAP. | 12 Jan 2007 |
The German Federal Armed Forces have commissioned a consortium consisting of Siemens Business Services and IBM to modernize and manage its non-military information and communications technology. IBM will be responsible for modernizing both the applications and the operation of the data centers, which include SAP software. | 28 Dec 2006 |
IBM and Dansk Supermarked A/S, Denmark's leading retailer, have signed a 3-year services contract for IBM to manage operations and infrastructure on the existing systems as well as building up and run infrastructure to support new SAP applications. | 20 Dec 2006 |
Grundfos, one of the world's leading pump manufacturers for industrial purposes, heating, water supply and wastewater, has selected IBM Information Integration Solutions to create an integrated information management environment that delivers trusted customer, material and supplier information to its SAP applications. | 28 Nov 2006 |
SAP announced it has significantly increased its business intelligence (BI) market share lead over suite vendors. Customers are also reaping benefits of SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator, an appliance installed on Intel processor-based blade servers from HP or IBM, that work with BI to speed analysis of critical information | 06 Nov 2006 |
IBM unveiled the newest Express Advantage offerings, which include hardware, software, services and financing offerings specifically developed for mid-sized businesses. These offerings include IBM System p5 Solution Edition Express for mySAP ERP | 24 Oct 2006 |
IBM announces a new, specially priced solution uniquely configured for small and midsize businesses adopting SAP® business management applications. Designed for customers with 100 SAP users or less, it's based on IBM's System i business computing platform and has a comparable acquisition cost to Windows-based solutions. | 12 Oct 2006 |
SAP America, Inc announced that Oneida Ltd., a premier marketer of stainless steel flatware and tabletop products has selected SAP and IBM to optimize business processes by deploying an IBM "Express" mySAP™ All-In-One solution based on industry best practices and featuring the implementation expertise of SAP and IBM. | 31 Aug 2006 |
SAP has named IBM Global Business Services Germany as a "Special Expertise Partner for Financials" | 28 Aug 2006 |
IBM announced that it intends to invest up to $40 million over the next five years to test, enable and support SAP® applications on System z solutions, and to enhance existing IBM System z Technology Centers for SAP Applications in Germany and the U.S. | 08 Aug 2006 |
The IBM System p5™ 595 server announced today has seized the number one spot in five key industry benchmarks, demonstrating unmatched strength in both commercial and technical workloads. | 25 Jul 2006 |
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