mittelstand

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges

SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance chargesIncreased maintenance chargesOur company is unhappy with the ERP we kicked off 3 yrs ago. I had been taking another look at SAP. Guess not...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Mittelstand, maintenance charge, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges

Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of  the...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Additional Resources

Siemens cans SAP support

Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Siemens plans to ditch SAP for its ERP support. The story goes that Siemens had become fatigued with the situation. A recent heavy hint should have come from Siemens signing off a massive deal with SuccessFactors. A report in...

Tags: Siemens AG, Customer, SAP AG, Ray Wang, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-12

SAP: cautious optimism going forward

Following on from this morning's earning announcement, it was a calm, cautious but emphatic SAP board fielding a set of disappointingly soft questions on today's earnings call. First some selected quotes: Leo Apotheker, CEO: "Things are still tough...closure rates are more volatile then in the past...I am...

Tags: SPSS Inc., SAP AG, Leo, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales, Finance, Investment, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-29

News to know: Google, Microsoft; AMD; Cybercrime arrest

Notable headlines: Earnings wrap: Larry Dignan: Can Dirk Meyer save AMD? News.com: AMD's Ruiz steps off the roller coaster Google earnings fall short; says it can thrive in down economy. Techmeme Sam Diaz: IBM: Big Blue beats expectations Microsoft: $60 billion...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Keyboards, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Asset Management, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Can SAP learn to speak SME with A1S?

SAP faces tough challenges as it prepares for the September 19 launch of A1S, code name for the company's new small business offering, to be delivered in the form of software as a service SaaS. A1S represents SAP's hope to expand into the important small and medium enterprise SME market....

Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, SAP AG, A1S, A1S Question, Smb/Sme, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-17

SHORT QUOTE: SAP is "liquid concrete"

SHORT QUOTE: SAP is "liquid concrete"SAP and SMEThere's an interesting article about SAP this week in the German magazine Spiegel.The deputy CEO of SAP, who can speak several languages fluently, states in it that he is now having to learn the language of the "Mittelstand" medium sized businesses.One imagines him...

Tags: SAP AG, German magazine Spiegel

Discussion threads 2007-09-14