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Top Story - SAP Releases New SAP Business ByDesign

SAP announced the general availability of the feature pack 2.5 for the SAP Business ByDesign solution in India along with three new predefined starter packages that provide a starting point for adoption of the SAP Business ByDesign solution.

Top Story - SAP HANA Makes 'Big Data Analytics More Accessible'

SAP's new high performance analytics appliance (HANA) allows IT departments to spend less time on the plumbing and more time on tasks that will provide tangible business benefits, according to Timo Elliott, Business Intelligence evangelist at SAP.

Top Story - SAP to Buy Sybase for Rs. 26,100 crores

SAP is buying mobile and database vendor Sybase for roughly US$5.8 billion (about Rs. 26,100 crores), the company announced.

Top Story - How to Cut Better Deals With SAP

t's crunch time for many SAP customers looking to hammer out new software deals and contract renewals before the end of the year. Experts acknowledge that it might be difficult to persuade SAP to budge on certain things, such as annual maintenance fees for its applications, but customers can take steps to improve their chances of getting strong returns on their investments in SAP software.

Top Story - SAP Reintroduces Enterprise Support

SAP has done a U-turn and reintroduced its standard enterprise support package for customers.

Top Story - SAP Has Changed Its Mind about Open Source: Exec

SAP AG's relationship with open source today is much less conservative than it used to be and reflects an internal change in attitude towards software development where the goals are efficiency and interoperability, said an SAP executive.

Top Story - SAP Apps Now on Mobile

Sybase India and Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services, announced a partnership to extend SAP applications to a variety of mobile device types.

Top Story - Deal Means More SAP Cloud Changes

If its $3.4 billion bid to buy SuccessFactors is successful, SAP could finally stabilize its cloud computing strategy -- which has so far been mostly ineffectual.

Top Story - SAP Ups its In-Memory computing Ante

SAP strengthened its eager embrace of in-memory computing on Wednesday, announcing plans for a series of applications that include programs it calls previously "unimaginable" as well as some that overhaul existing software.

Top Story - SAP’s Innovation Plans May Lead to Skills Gaps, Says Sheffield Hallam

SAP's new programme of innovation could lead to a skills gap, according to Sheffield Hallam University. The university, which delivers postgraduate courses with SAP certifications, said that the company's innovation plans for cloud computing, in-memory computing and mobility will generate a new skills requirement, on top of the need for core SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system skills.