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SAP wants perfect ten to flesh out specialist channel

Hundhunters for the private equity industry are being blocked by defensive banks holding on to their key staff

Vendor's UK channel chief John Antunes discusses partner recruitment strategy and getting incentives right for cloud sales

22 May 2012

Oracle and SAP legal spat rumbles on

Judge's gavel

Larry Ellison’s firm now seeking $777m in damages for copyright infringement that dates back to 2007

08 May 2012

SAP claims partners are overlooking newer products

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New UK CTO aims to drive awareness of vendor's mobile and cloud technologies among partner base

11 Apr 2012

Intact Software wants Sage, SAP and Microsoft VARs

New season for SAP UK as Winter handed top job

Sales surge for BI heralds key 10-year shift

Cloud, mobile and big data to encourage market for BI and analytics apps

02 Apr 2012

SAP plays with Violin

SAP's investment arm, SAP Ventures, is latest in a long line to plough funding into growing memory vendor Violin Memory

02 Apr 2012

Canalys: Vendor giants on course for growth

Market watcher tips technology giants to buck the economic trend, thanks to growing demand for cloud and tablets

27 Feb 2012

SAP takes a special interest in VARs

The vendor’s UK and worldwide partner bosses discuss how they plan to give more rewards to specialist VARs and those that drive new business in 2012

24 Feb 2012

Heading for the heights

Reminiscing with family and friends in a mountain village could well be the top way to end one’s days, according to Ankush Korla

24 Feb 2012

Sapphire acquires “respected enemy” for Infor glory

ERP provider claims it is now the world’s largest Infor SunSystems partner following first acquisition in 25-year history

23 Feb 2012

Bend but don’t break

John Antunes notes that flexibility can prove key to long-term growth for SMBs during tough economic times

28 Nov 2011

What’s in a name?

What is an SME? Is it any different to an SMB? Are employee numbers more important to the definition than turnover? CRN attempts to untangle the web

18 Nov 2011

Intact Software wants Sage, SAP and Microsoft VARs

Mid-market ERP vendor is gunning for growth by launching a channel recruitment drive

21 Oct 2011

SAP and BNP Paribas team up on channel finance

Bank lends financial clout to software firm to help remove financial barriers to end-user investment

26 Sep 2011

Where will the growth come from?

SAP's future earnings will come from a number of areas facilitated by the cloud, says Colin Sharp

18 Aug 2011

Maxima pursued by mystery suitor

VAR gives update of strategic review as it posts £9m pre-tax loss

09 Aug 2011

New season for SAP UK as Winter handed top job

Business applications goliath unveils successor to Tim Noble

08 Aug 2011

Vendors admonished for "questionable" licensing tactics

Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and IBM all come under fire for unfair licensing rules in Forrester report

19 Jul 2011

Flexible SLAs needed for SAP managed apps

Ramki Jagadishan says flexible SLAs help SAP users in particular improve their businesses

12 Jul 2011

Oracle and SAP tormentor arrives in UK channel

Rimini Street hunts for Oracle and SAP partners claiming it can undercut the duo's support fees by a half

22 Jun 2011

SAP hails progress of SMB channel push

Business applications giant looks to shatter end users' misconceptions that it is an enterprise-only vendor

19 Apr 2011

Cloud requires increased reach for SAP

Customers and partners discussed their hopes for SAP’s Business ByDesign cloud deployments recently. Fleur Doidge reports

04 Mar 2011

SAP makes channel-only pledge for SMB

Vendor aims to operate 100-per-cent indirect model for SMB market by the end of the year

09 Feb 2011

Tech vendors take just 17 spots in sustainable 100

Annual sustainability table ranks 100 leading large corporations around the globe

08 Feb 2011

SAP plots second partner cull

Vendor confirms up to 10 partners to be shown the door

17 Dec 2010

SAP smashed by $1.3bn damages in Oracle copyright case

German software house ordered to make record payment to rival

24 Nov 2010

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Why Apple wants bigger bite of channel

Latest distribution sell-through figures indicate a softening in Apple's stance towards the channel, says CRN deputy editor Doug Woodburn