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SAP Expects 18% Growth in Software Revenues for Full-Year 2005

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced today that after a preliminary review of its 2005 fourth quarter results, it expects full-year 2005 software revenues to be approximately €2,780 million, representing an increase of 18% (15% at constant currencies¹) compared to full-year 2004 software revenues of €2,361 million.  The expected 2005 software revenue growth of 18% exceeds the Company’s previously published guidance of a range of 12% - 14% growth. 

Business Objects reports third quarter 2005 results

Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250 - BOB), the world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2005. 

IDC´s European IT Forum 2005

On September 26 and 27 more than 500 people attended IDC's 15th European IT Forum in Paris. This year's theme was IT innovation and business transformation. In addition to an overview of the main trends characterizing the European ICT market, the audience heard about the business, economic, and social impact of technology from the forum's keynote speakers.

John Schwarz Named CEO of Business Objects

Business Objects announced that it has named John Schwarz chief executive officer. Company founder, Bernard Liautaud, continues as chairman of the board and assumes the new role of chief strategy officer, focusing on long term vision and strategy. Schwarz now leads the Business Objects executive team, and reports to the Board of Directors.

Care New England Selects BMC Software for Identity Management Solutions

BMC Software, Inc., [NYSE: BMC], a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, today announced Care New England's selection of BMC for their identity service needs. Care New England will deploy BMC® Identity Manager for .NET solutions and v-GO SSPR for BMC CONTROL-SA by Passlogix, across five leading healthcare providers in the northeastern United States, encompassing more than 6,000 internal and external users. The solutions will automate provisioning and de-provisioning processes and empower medical and administrative personnel with self-service password reset capabilities to help decrease patient wait times and improve the patient experience at Care New England facilities. The ability to align business services with identity needs, a cornerstone of Business Service Management (BSM), eliminates wasted time and costs accessing patient and care data, while automating processes for enhanced information security and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance.

Intel Acquires Sarvega To Bolster Software, Enterprise Platform Strategies

Intel Corporation today announced it has acquired Sarvega Inc., a leader in XML solutions. The acquisition combines Intel’s proven hardware capabilities with Sarvega’s underlying XML software technology and engineering expertise. Sarvega’s networking solutions optimize XML performance and Web services on enterprise networks providing businesses with improved reliability, security and flexibility to better serve and respond to their customers.

IBM's Venture Capital Group adds thrust to Power.org

Many people may associate venture capitalism with dot coms and Internet-related industries. But IBM’s Venture Capital Group is taking aim at a very different target, an “open hardware” community known as Power.org.

Helzberg Diamonds Shines with Hyperion® Business Intelligence

Helzberg Diamonds, a leading United States jewelry retailer, will leverage the power of the most recent release of the Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform – including Hyperion Essbase 7X and Hyperion Performance Suite 8.3 – to deliver data to its 265 stores in 37 states. The company currently uses products from Hyperion (Nasdaq: HYSL), the leading provider of Business Performance Management software, for budgeting and financial reporting as well as nationwide inventory and assortment planning. Helzberg’s IT department also uses Hyperion Performance Suite to create reports and dashboards for its sales, finance and merchandising groups.

SAS® Boosts Research at UAB Health System

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced that the company will team with the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System in an effort to improve patient care. SAS is sponsoring a pilot study that will be conducted by University of Alabama MBA students, who will use SAS® data and text mining solutions to examine 12 thousand of the 7 million records in UAB Health System’s patient database.

SAS and Balanced Scorecard Collaborative cooperate in European launch of Office of Strategy Management

Today SAS announced it would be supporting the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative’s (BSCol) newly formed European Office of Strategy Management (OSM) – an action learning community of peers to share best practices, identify the means for successful strategy execution, understand cross-functional processes, and develop specific strategy management competencies.