Automotive IT News and Facts
SAP will focus on car connectivity and new IT opportunities for the car industry when it hosts its 13th annual Automotive Forum June 12 and 13 in Leipzig. The German business software maker plans a two-day meeting that will feature several keynote addresses, customer reports, live demonstrations, an exhibition and a range of networking opportunities. [...]
HP will host AVL’s SAP applications in a new hybrid cloud-based infrastructure. The US-based IT group said it has migrated a range of SAP applications used within AVL, deploying a cloud-based solution it says will boost the reliability of IT systems at the Austria-based company. AVL develops powertrain systems, markets engineering simulations and provides a [...]
Despite their dominant market share in ERP systems, the top three software providers are facing new competion that may erode their strong positions. According to a benchmarking study by ERP specialists Panorama Consulting, the three companies together have a 47 pc share of the global market. “But the market is shifting,” Panorama warned in the [...]
German companies have a strong interest in business intelligence, but few have a well-thought-out plan for using the accumulated knowledge and information available within their enterprises. A poll of more than 300 executives in German companies found that more than 60 pc feel business intelligence is important or even very important for their companies. But [...]
Software providers and internet companies are the best performers in the global information and communication technology sector, according to a new study. An analysis of the world’s 50 biggest ICT companies by consultants Booz & Company found that software providers such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP and internet companies such as Google were realizing sales [...]
German machine-tool maker Trumpf has chosen the Pool4tool portal to improve its management of supplier relations. ESolutions from Pool4tool, an Austrian specialist for eBusiness and SAP software solutions, is used as a Cloud-based service. The processes are fully integrated into Trumpf’s SAP system. Trumpf’s main goal in implementing Pool4tool was to reduce the work that [...]
SAP plans to acquire US-based Cloud services provider Ariba for about 4.3 billion dlrs. The German business software group said the acquisition, which is set to close in the third quarter, will combine Ariba’s buyer-seller collaboration network with SAP’s broad customer base and business process expertise. That combination will help provide “new models for business-to-business [...]
McLaren will use SAP software to better handle data flows, optimize its infrastructure and improve group operations. The British automotive racing technology company said it had signed a new contract with SAP to use the business software maker’s solutions, including the SAP Hana database. Ron Dennis, executive chairman of McLaren said analysis of large amounts [...]
Volkswagen Group has chosen SAP to reorganize its customer relationship managenemt software, industry insiders say. SAP, the world’s largest maker of business software, will provide CRM software for all passenger car brands belonging to the VW Group. Rollout will start in Germany in coming months and other countries, including Spain and Italy, will get the [...]
One of the world’s largest communities of SAP resellers is moving its main office close to the headquarters of the business software group in Walldorf, Germany. UnitedVARs, which has 20 core partner companies worldwide serving mostly small and mid-sized enterprises, was founded last year. Its aim is to deliver one-stop-support to international customers under the [...]
