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With SAP set to acquire Sybase, SAP customers, mainly in Finance, Media, Telecom and Retail sector will find newer innovative ways to deliver information and distribute data with merger of the two technologies. Other customers will have more innovative process transforming their ERP systems to bring in more productivity.

On the application development side in the IT arena, we can expect niche and newer applications in the mobile segment resulting in better reach of business to customers and prospects.

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Posted by Senthil Muthuvelu at 9:28 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBacks ( 0 )

Thanks largely to the recent global recession, many organizations were forced to take a hard look at their IT spend and find more cost effective ways to invest their reduced IT budgets. Alternate IT service contracts such as value-based or outcome-based pricing became more popular providing clients with greater means for cost control and tying stringent budgets to result driven service contracts.

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Posted by Dirk Leifer at 5:27 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBacks ( 0 )

Historically functional requirements have remained the key focus of organizations working with enterprise applications such as SAP. However, in their race to meet the functional requirements of business users, many times non-functional requirements (NFR) and usability may take back stage and are not updated.

Business demands for flexibility and responsiveness have always put pressure on IT departments to increase the speed at which new applications are created or changes are implemented. Newer tools (such as Portal, MDM, Composites etc.) and new way of architecting (SOA, Virtualization etc.) the solution are being used by IT for being quick and efficient to support business of the enterprise. Each of these new tools and architecture has their own demands for NFR (performance, availability and security) and usability.

From performance point of view, following four key layers play important role:

• Browser layer
• Network layer
• Application server layer
• Database layer

Continue reading " Win the last mile battle by addressing Performance and Usability of SAP Netweaver based Web apps…PART I of IV- Browser Layer " »

Posted by Ashish Tewary at 12:49 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 1 ) | TrackBacks ( 0 )

If this is true, then AccAD is your “goto” solution. Positioned as a complimentary offering to SAP Netweaver, SAP’s Accelerated Application delivery (ACCAD), is a standalone application. It can be leveraged as an enabler for SAP's global central system strategy e.g., Central Portal as single central access point for end-users worldwide.

Access via AccAD is significantly fast than direct access over WAN. This is true for limited bandwidth and longer latencies.

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Posted by Senthil Muthuvelu at 3:08 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 1 ) | TrackBacks ( 0 )

CIOs today are facing a challenging situation especially when it comes to the technology support for procurement domain. The challenge is not in realizing whether technology assistance in procurement domain will help already troubled organizations or not. CIOs are pretty clear that any benefit in this area is right away transforming into bottom line savings and hence is a definite candidate for technology aided alignment.

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