Purchase of American company pioneering Aachen, May 26, 2010 SAP on shopping tour: with the purchase of Sybase, the company carries out the second transfer of billions within a relatively short period of time. Analysts assess the transfer as predominantly positive in contrast to the own customers. They want especially qualitative improvements instead of further product acquisition and unweigerlichem entry into additional paid modules. SAP will have to pay for the takeover of the American database specialist Sybase almost five billion euros. In General, analysts welcome the Declaration of war against their arch-rivals Oracle: Sybase, SAP can benefit especially from the mobile platform. But what do SAP shareholders and customers away? An example of the last big deal of SAP: Early 2008 SAP acquired business objects for 4.8 billion euros with devastating effects for the SAP share: fell the value by 15 percent within four weeks and could not longer quite recover from.
If the current deal in the long run actually It is advantageous for the shareholders themselves decide plays the stock at about 35. However, if SAP doesn’t try to buy value added to, rather than to produce it through developments even wonder. On its own it doesn’t seem to create SAP again to boost the value of the stock”, commented an observer of the scene. SAP Specifies to win millions of new customers”, so Axel Susen, initiator of the starfish IT Forum. While the company should watch rather, scaring away not the existing customers!” Indeed, CIO complain about the ever-growing, vast product catalog and request that the software quality should be further developed. So some functions in various SAP modules are simply too old “, a CIO explains. In the order processing example would need to better configure orders and masks, in record management, the performance of XML take place on classic database technique; in HR, business and personnel management need urgent improvements. (A valuable related resource: Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation).
