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SAP aims to be the Apple of enterprise mobility
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-10-25 12:54
A home improvement retail chain can use an app running on an iPad to help design a customer's home, check inventory for the products, give a cost estimate to the customer, and take orders.
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SAP to pay $306M to Oracle after infringement fight
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-08-03 02:27
Oracle has won at least one legal battle this week. SAP is paying the hardware giant $306 million in damages resulting from a copyright infringement suit.
Unlike the fight against Google, it looks like victory over SAP really is a payday. SAP's bill to Oracle continues to get bigger as Oracle's general counsel Dorian Daley said in a statement that SAP will have to pay "a minimum of $426 million, including attorneys’ fees."
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Three Wildly Different Ways SAP Is Bring Mobile And Cloud Together
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-07-19 00:18
Several months ago, I wrote about the Four Ways SAP Is Embracing SoCloMo, i.e. the mashup of Social, Cloud and Mobile technology.
Predictably, one of the ways involved our cloud HR acquisition, SuccessFactors. But there were three other excellent efforts that show just far SAP's progressed beyond R/3.
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Many vulnerable SAP systems exposed to the internet
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-06-25 12:37
Russian company ERPScan, which specialises in the security analysis of SAP systems, has published a report which shows that many organisations using those systems have vulnerable services exposed to the internet. Depending on the service in use, 5 to 25% of companies have vulnerable services exposed to the public. The security firm compiled the data by using a combination of Google searches and TCP port scans of more than a thousand companies from around the world.
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Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-05-28 09:44
More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.
Attackers targeting SAP platforms don't need access credentials to perform these attacks, said Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO of Onapsis, a Buenos Aires consulting firm focused on ERP systems and business-critical infrastructure. Perez-Etchegoyen made his remarks at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Thursday.
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