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- ePlus sues SAP for patent infringement
- ePlus sues SAP for patent infringementPatent number 6,505,172 I guess Filed March 22, 2000, CNET infringes?http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,505,172.WKU.&OS=PN/6,505,172&RS=PN/6,505,172Looks like CNET shopping infringes with one, lucky for you Wayback machine shows you predate their 'innovative patent'.1. An electronic sourcing system comprising:a database containing data relating to items associated with at least two...
- Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, ePlus, SAP AG, electronic sourcing system, sourcing system, sourcing, product information, database
- Discussion threads 2005-09-08
Additional Resources
- Two Views of the Software Market
- A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...
- Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at System Building
- It all started with two extra Opteron CPUs and RAM and a bunch of hard drives which I had lying around, that mushroomed into a Build-Your-Own monster PC project. Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his...
- Tags: PC, AMD Opteron, Amazon.com Inc., Power Supply, CPU, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Falling profits forced Microsoft's open source hand
- Falling profits forced Microsoft's open source handDana, your dreaming. nt.StillFirst of all, I think everyone has seen earnings drop since November of last year. I don't think Microsoft's market share in relation to Linux has changed much over the last year. If someone can show me numbers...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, software, Dana, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-24
- HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations
- LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- SAP & SaaS - some clarifications
- TechMarketView ran a piece today about SAP and its SaaS software as a service products/initiatives. When I read the article, I thought this couldn't be right. I was especially confused by this paragraph: SAP’s flagship mid-market SaaS offering, Business ByDesign, announced in September...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Scotmid readies for expansion by consolidating and virtualizing with a complete IBM solution
- The IBM solution has also given Scotmid the resources to enhance their business intelligence capabilities, allowing them to leverage large amounts of sales data to improve product placement and sourcing in order to maximize sales. With an upgraded communications system and expanded processing and storage capacity, Scotmid can now capture,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Scotmid, Sales Strategy, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-04-27
- Collaboration Return-On-Investment
- "Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Today's Cloud: garbage; Tomorrow's? insanely great
- The near term truth about cloud computing is that it's only useful for enterprise applications if you're a user manager who wants to get around the obstacles in IT - that's what supported time sharing in the seventies and could make it a short term success again today. ...
- Tags: Agent, Data, Real Estate, Business Operations, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Mac mini reviews: Much better, still not good enough
- Mac mini reviews: Much better, still not good enoughThanks for the info on the competing productsThe Mac Mini was about the only Apple product that actually interested me. Now that you've shown me how superior the alternatives are, I guess there isn't a single Apple product that could be considered...
- Tags: Desktops, Game players, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Much Better, Microsoft Xbox
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open
- Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanager storage virtualization product open-sourced on the community Google Code site their clean room implementation of VMFS, the clustered locking file system used by VMWare's ESX Server hypervisor...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Clustering, File System, VMware Inc., VMFS, Virtualization, Ip storage, Open Source, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Facing Microsoft licensing decisions? Bridge the gap between Operations and Sourcing
- Whether or not to sign or renew an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft is a sticky question that many organizations face. For many companies out there, their spend on Microsoft licensing can be a significant portion of a company's IT budget, whether it be Enterprise Agreements or Select License agreements. Some...
- Tags: Software, Sourcing, Virtualization, Server, Microsoft Corp., Software Assurance, Chris Voce
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Yelp's bad press lesson: Squash the allegation, not the reporter
- There are valuable business lessons about bad press that I hope Yelp is taking away this week, following a pretty scathing and really long report that accuses the popular reviews site of manipulating reviews for money. The first thing you should know is that the report appeared...
- Tags: Allegation, Yelp, Engineering, Blogging, Business Structures, Purchasing & Procurement, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- What Ciscoââ¬â¢s EnergyWise technology means to Green IT
- To date, IT pros have given very little attention to the “greening†of the network. Why? Three words: follow the money. According to recent Forrester research, the top motivation for pursing Green IT is to “reduce the energy-related costs of operating IT.†And when compared to other IT energy-drawing assets...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Green IT, Cisco Systems Inc., Energy, EnergyWise, Energy Consumption, Strategy, Management, Doug Washburn
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Svendsen Sport Gets Hooked on Business Intelligence With IBM Cognos
- Established in 1977, Svendsen Sport has grown to become one of the largest suppliers of fishing tackle in Europe, with sales offices around the world. In sourcing thousands of products from the Far East, fishing tackle wholesaler Svendsen Sport is presented with a complex forecasting challenge. Its customers - retailers...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., IBM Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste
- Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...
- Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Supply Chain Provider Saves $227,000 and 15,600 Labor Hours in Less Than a Year
- Yobel Supply Chain Management, based in Lima, Peru, provides customers in Latin America and the United States with supply chain planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. With growing competition and increased demand for innovation in bringing products to market, Yobel began surveying customers, partners, and employees on their operational efficiency and...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Survey, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain, Performance Management, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blogSounds like xVM server to me.Perhaps I misunderstood your thoughts, but what you describe sounds an awful lot like the xVM Ops center server product from Sun.More virtual crapVirtualization allows projects that didn't buy the hardware, to run on the hardware. IOW the...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Jonathan Schwartz, NOW IT, blog, server, data center, new server, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- The enterprise startup conundrum
- The enterprise startup conundrumnot all negativeDennis, given that these were almost amateur teams doing stuff part time things, shame on me if I do not acknowledge what they showcased was innovative - like the Canadian Pacific use of GPS to guide workers to specific points on their thousands of miles....
- Tags: Channel management, Firewalls, Web 2.0 Consumer, Web, Web 2.0, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
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