Cowen & Co's hint at a general trend downwards in SAP maintenance revenue may be something of a stretch given the sample size used to arrive at its assessment. But the inevitable nose dive in this ...

One of the elephants in the room when it comes to legacy technology vendors is just how reliant they are on maintenance contracts to fill out their revenue. While every enterprise under the sun moans ...

Market realities, competition from Oracle, and maintenance and support complexity are the reasons behind ERP giant SAP's move to limit service plan choices for new customers of its enterprise software ...

Yesterday's announcement by SAP that it plans to raise prices for Standard Support by an effective 5.5 percent in July (18 percent to 19 percent represents a 5.5 percent increase in real money), while ...

SAP’s recently announced plans to overhaul its support services have user groups giving the thumbs up, although it may be some time before many customers feel a big difference. Dubbed One Support, the ...