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Manufacturer Optimizes Data Center Network for SAP Portal

For one large European manufacturer of factory automation and process technology, globalization and growth required managing tens of thousands of products across 100 locations with a heavy reliance on Enterprise Resource Planning ERP applications. In this environment, IT was the enabler of the business, keeping the SAP ERP applications running...

Tags: SAP Enterprise Portal, Data Center, SAP AG, Cisco Systems Inc., Portal, Cisco Content Switching Module, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2006-11-01

SAP Enterprise Portal on AIX 5.3 and POWER5

SAP's Enterprise Portal product is a key component of SAP's NetWeaver technology infrastructure. SAP Enterprise Portal delivers web enabled access to business processes and data to the end user. Enterprise Portal is located across the "People Integration" and "Information Integration" layers of the NetWeaver stack. The objective of this paper...

Tags: SAP Enterprise Portal, Enterprise Portal, IBM AIX, SAP AG, IBM POWER5, SAP Enterprise Portal Product, Groupware, Portals, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet

White papers 2006-08-09

SAP Enterprise Portal management put on 'Patrol'

SAP Enterprise Portal management put on 'Patrol'SAP Enterprise Portal management put on 'Patrol'Screw BMC and Patrol. What a piece of garbage that software. Alerts for no reason. Then no alerts when there should be.

Tags: Portals, Groupware, Web technology, Enterprise software, SAP Enterprise Portal management, SAP Enterprise Portal, enterprise portal, SAP AG, portal

Discussion threads 2004-10-08

SAP Enterprise Portal: Portal Infrastructure

SAP Enterprise Portal SAP EP unifies enterprise applications, information, and services from SAP and non-SAP sources into one system to support business processes, both within and across company boundaries. SAP Enterprise Portal is a building block of SAP NetWeaver - a total integration and application platform designed to unify and...

Tags: SAP Enterprise Portal, Enterprise Portal, SAP AG, Portals, Groupware, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software

White papers 2003-08-01

Customer Success: Servicing Customers Through SAP Enterprise Portal With Documentum

CSA International has enhanced customer service, accelerated business processes and increased data accuracy by integrating the SAP Enterprise Portal with Documentum Enterprise Content Management ECM. In this webcast you will learn how to achieve fast and convenient access to any type of content in your enterprise, standardize the way information...

Tags: SAP Enterprise Portal, Enterprise Portal, SAP AG, Documentum, CSA International, Portals, Groupware, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software

Webcasts

TransAlta Powers Up With IBM WebSphere Portal and SAP Enterprise Portal

Founded in 1911, TransAlta is the largest non-regulated power generation and wholesale marketing company in Canada. The challenge TransAlta faced was to provide integrated business information; enhance enterprise communication and collaboration and simplify enterprise-wide user experience; reduce costs of doing business. To meet this objective, TransAlta exploited both IBM WebSphere...

Tags: SAP Enterprise Portal, IBM WebSphere, Enterprise Portal, SAP AG, IBM Corp., TransAlta, Portals, Web Technology, Groupware, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Internet, Software

Case studies

Additional Resources

6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors

GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

UN Agency Retools IT System Quickly and Efficiently With Web Portal Environment

With 193 member nations, and programs worldwide, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization UNESCO is a broad and diverse organization with a complex and disparate IT environment. Solutions are deployed locally, without regard to ease of use, security rules, or access management at the international level. Implementing an...

Tags: IT Environment, Web, Information Technology, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Web Portal, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Case studies 2009-04-01

Novell delivers SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

As the other Linux provider, Novell goes to great lengths to differentiate its offering from rival Red Hat. The company's expansive version 11 platform is no exception, and is said to promise unique advances in virtualization, management, interoperability, high availability and desktop computing. ...

Tags: Desktop, Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, High Availability Extension, Open Source, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Is BI recession-proof, or are we just bracing for the next shoe to drop?

The economic outlook isn't all gloom and doom. Bright spots remain in some substantial IT growth sectors--most important, in the sprawling business intelligence BI market. In the past month, we've seen solid financials--in some cases, record growth and profitability numbers--from leading BI vendors, including SAP Business Objects,...

Tags: Analytics, MicroStrategy Inc., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2009-02-06

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well.  I guess they aren't really all that surprising.  But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...

Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-16

'IT has no inherent value'

'IT has no inherent value'Finally!After all these years the "pointy haired boss" gets outed.RE: 'IT has no inherent value'Wow, the title to this article is very misleading. Some IT projects do have inherent value and if the project pushers and the project benefit receivers both agree on an IT project...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, inherent value, IT HAS

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Global Manufacturer Signs Up for Service, Mitigates Portal Deployment Risks

Executives at Timken were anxious to rebuild the company's entire portal to improve the efficiency of diverse, global content management. They selected Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as the company's portal solution and SAP as its enterprise resource planning solution. But, the Timken in-house IT staff needed help. Since Office...

Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Portals, Content Management, Web Technology, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-11-01

Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)

Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Google and Salesforce.com: still not a done deal

In all the excitement around the Google and Salesforce.com tie up, an email turned up from Sridhar Vembu, Zoho's CEO. He claims that Salesforce.com is operating a 1990's business model and that the partnership will end in tears. Why should this matter? Salesforce.com has clearly put a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud, Vembu, InfoStreet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Google and Salesforce.com: Why don't they merge?

Google and Salesforce.com: Why don't they merge?There are compelling arguments in favor ...as I speculated last year during all the chatter in the run-up to the original announcement of Salesforce's alliance with Google:http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=334But would Google be willing to pay so much? (it would have to be quite a bit more...

Tags: Sales force management, Google Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates

Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...

Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Canada Post Chooses SAS for Performance and Analysis

Canadian postal service Canada Post took its company intelligence to a new level by implementing the SAS Enterprise BI Server solution for Service Performance Evaluation SPE system, putting critical information in the hands of users throughout the organization. The challenge was to provide corporate wide access to the service performance...

Tags: Performance, SAS Institute, Analysis, Canada Post Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-03-01

Now raging: battle for the soul of JBoss

Intrepid analyst-on-the-go Tony Baer reports he's hopping between two simultaneous conferences in Orlando JBoss and IDS Scheer. The conferences may be sharing the same conference venue, but the cultural chasm couldn't be wider, Tony observes: "On one side, a bunch of open source developers [the JBossers], on the other, a...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., JBoss, Tony Baer, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Open Source, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Microsoft-Yahoo: Enterprise confusion

Microsoft-Yahoo: Enterprise confusionSorry, Michael. Wrong. :-)The addition of Yahoo, similar to aQuantive, spells enterprise goodness all around. Remember what the greatest asset of the web 2.0 "revolution" is? It's people. Mashing up these next-gen new media pioneers with old school MSFT is only going to spell...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-02-01