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Jefferies on Wednesday raised its rating on German business-software giant SAP AG to buy from hold, saying it believes that the second quarter will mark the trough of the year-on-year license declines and that there is evidence of an improving pipeline in certain segments and regions.

SAP By Jefferies & Co. WE UPGRADE THE American depositary receipts of SAP to Buy [from Hold] with a $46 price target.

The appointment of Leo Apotheker to co-CEO marks the leadership transition of the world's largest application vendor.

Early-generation server load-balancing technology has proven to be an invaluable asset, especially for organizations hosting widely utilized Web applications.

When can a company that's still "close to being a startup" compete on a level playing field against the giants in its field? During a recession, that's when, says Ned Lilly, CEO of open source ERP provider xTuple.

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It is the new functionality of SAP Enterprise Modeling helping me to speed up my SAP projects and enable alignment of business process requirements and SOA! Read this blog from Josphe Blondaut from IDS Scheer AG and Stephan Schluchter from SAP AG, introducing the new integration.

New Versions of SAP BusinessObjectsTM Risk Management and SAP BusinessObjectsTM Process Control Automate and Unify Risk and Compliance Initiatives PALO ALTO, Calif.

SunGard Availability Services has been certified by SAP AG to provide hosting services for SAP applications and is now an SAP hosting partner in the U.S. The certification was awarded following an assessment of SunGard's infrastructure, procedures and technical staff by SAP.

In a direct attack on its German rival SAP AG , Barron's Mark Veverka says NetSuite plans to announce this week a government-approved suite of financial-accounting services and business apps for German companies and multinationals doing business there.

Yesterday's theme of integrating social software and business data was echoed by Jive Software .

Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product.

Saputo inc. completed today a debt financing in the form of a private placement of CDN$330 million to three institutional investors in the United States.

Oracle Corp reported quarterly earnings above expectations as the No. 3 software maker's profit margin hit a record thanks to robust growth in its maintenance business, sending shares up 2.7 percent.

Jive to Integrate SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand Offerings into Its Social Business Software For Unprecedented Visibility into Community Dynamics BOSTON , June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise 2.0 Conference -- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today announced an OEM agreement with SAP AG, the business intelligence market leader, through which ...

Crossgate Inc., the global expert in business-to-business integration , has released a set of core service extensions in support of the SAP Supply Network Collaboration application, eliminating time and material B2B integration projects which have often presented challenges to supply chain managers.

San Antonio-based CPS Energy, the largest municipality-owned gas and electric company in the country, needed to get a better grip on its budget and its budgeting process.

SAP AG, whose new software sales plunged 33 percent last quarter, is struggling to wrest orders from Oracle Corp.

Business-software giant Oracle Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired the intellectual-property assets of Conformia Software Inc., a firm once backed by a venture-capital fund operated by rival SAP AG.

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