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Now in its seventh chapter, the job creation initiative was launched in 2015 to alleviate Africa's unemployment crisis by training and certifying young unemployed graduates in SAP's software suite of business systems and applications. The South African leg of SAP Skills for Africa, according to the company, ...

Joachim Paulini, SAP chief developer at Snow Software, says SAP's decision is a logical extension of its previously announced intentions to revamp indirect access. “There are nine document object types, which makes it simpler for the customer to count, but I would not recommend going for the digital licence,” he says.

Software giant's new pricing model attempts to address customer concerns about liability exposure due to “indirect access.” Implications of the new model for companies will depend on whether they are potential net new customers of SAP, existing customers without indirect access concerns, or existing ...

There are plenty of people involved in building software, from engineers and product managers to visual designers and usability testers. Yet even with all of those people involved, the final product may not be optimally designed for the end user. That's because there are some questions about human ...

Many businesses, both big and small, have become so reliant on licensed software that they would struggle to operate without it. Computer programs that run systems from payrolls to supply chains and customer databases have become a costly but necessary tool. But with increasing integration, ...

SAP's rules on indirect access mean that customers could be hit with licensing fees to cover any and all software that connects – even indirectly – to data stored on SAP systems, such as those used for order processing or stock checks. This wasn't such a huge problem until recent years, when the number of ...

SAP has put a bright spotlight on its small and midsize enterprise (SME) partner initiatives throughout 2018 and 2017. The effort generally aligns partners with customers that have up to $1 billion in annual revenues. Of SAP's 365,000 customers, roughly 300,000 are SMEs — or roughly 80 percent of the ...

For enterprises overwhelmed with the idea of cataloguing every point of access in their SAP systems, using third-party software license management tools can help identify possible areas of concern about indirect licensing, as well as prevent unpleasant surprises during an audit. Companies can also use ...

TechEdge works with customers using Oracle, SAP and other enterprise software. It already does business in North America but wanted to raise its profile among SAP users here. “[Buying NIMBL] provides them with a well-known brand, and that was one of the premier reasons for the acquisition,” Eisbart ...

SAP earned a media sentiment score of 0.19 on Accern's scale. Accern also assigned headlines about the software maker an impact score of 46.6078688546075 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

SAP is an acronym for Systems, Applications and Products. SAP manufactures enterprise software that helps people manage and run their companies. "Our customers look to us to help them seamlessly connect people and technology in real-time. We help them re-imagine business and life to drive ...

SAP has quietly settled its US$600 million software licensing dispute with Anheuser-Busch, the U.S. subsidiary of beverage conglomerate AB InBev. “The parties settled the dispute on 30 June 2017 and the matter is now closed,” AB InBev said in its 2017 Annual Report, published Tuesday. The company ...

Germany's leading software and service provider SAP SE sees Turkey as the "main hub" for digital transformation, said the software giant's senior executive in the country. "SAP sees Turkey as a main hub in this geography," Uğur Candan, managing director of SAP Turkey, told Anadolu Agency on the ...

To validate that, users who are running SAP are still at the company,” he said. He suggested that if user email accounts hardwire to the Microsoft Active Directory, IT can suspend both email access and access to software when the user leaves. Going further, Canavan recommended IT departments consider ...

German softwarehaus SAP has pointed to a changing set of models which could (and for many arguably should) change the way software is bought. In the world of composable cloud-based componentised decoupled software, we now have the chance to use Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies in a ...

German software maker SAP expects to generate new business in the Middle East as a result of Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030" plan, a senior executive at the company told CNBC. There is a big push toward cloud computing in Saudi Arabia, according to Luka Mucic, chief financial officer at SAP. "Companies ...

These are even more important in the case of as-a-service software. Here, companies have to put some more “skin in the game” when it comes to enforcing licensing due-diligence. SAP requires customers to perform a yearly self-measurement using the SAP tools USMM and LAW. However, these tools are not designed to ...