SAP/ Sybase Press Conference 12:45 pm CST from Beijing

by Sven Herold (SAP AG) on September 1, 2010

Watch our live broadcast from the press conference in china, which is just to begin. Everything looks great and we are expecting and exciting event. There are 3 cameras rolling and we have established several independent live streamings. Two internal only streams for our employees and remote locations in apj, where our managing directors are watching the press conference with local journalists (e.g. in japan, vietnam, singapore, malaysia, etc.) Also there are two external live webcasts, which are accessible globally. Some of the encodings are done directly onsite in beijing, some others are initiated in germany for saftey reasons and to guarantee a backup out of china. In addition journalists can dial in via telephone or listen to an audio only webcast.

The press conference will start 12:45 pm china standard time, which is 6:45 am in germany and 0:45 am est.

Feel free to join! You can find all information about the different dial in options on www.sap.com/press

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Behind the lens

by Jessica Seilnacht (Bavaria Film Interactive) on August 30, 2010

With the SAP TV team being in China this week, our daily work doesn´t only seem to be international – it is!
We produce stories all over the globe – from Port au Prince, Haiti to Beijing, China.
A big help is our fantastic global network consisting of reporters, producers and camera crews in key and emerging markets. It´s time to introduce some of the people behind the lens:

Silicon Valley producer, Vince Sturla, is a veteran news and documentary film-maker.
He’s lived and worked in Southeast Asia, India and Central America for CNN and NBC News. Sturla’s work has won numerous awards including the DuPont-Columbia, broadcast journalism’s equivalent of the Pulitzer.
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SAP TV goes to China

by Sven Herold (SAP AG) on August 29, 2010

This week, SAP TV is broadcasting from the Middle Kingdom where several Board-level events are under the spotlight: an all-China employee meeting, a board meeting, keynote presentations at a premier customer event and two press conferences. Preparations are well-underway and here’s a quick progress update:

Due to bandwith challenges in China, we’ve decided to run the internal employee event with live audio only, but we will provide a video recording to our Chinese colleagues afterwards. For one of the the press conferences, during which the Board will provide to the APJ media with further insight to our acquisition of Sybase, things have proven a little more challenging. Also for this event, we struggle with the external Internet bandwith. We had planned to have two internal streamings (one for back up) and two external streamings (the other also for backup). As far as the internal broadcast is concerned, things are looking good; we have a dedicated 20 Mbit line (up and down), same is installed externally. However, we’re just finding out that internet signals leave China very s-l-o-w-l-y. We’re going to see if we can sort this out tomorrow. Pull a rabbit out of the proverbial hat perhaps?! We’ll keep you posted! And one more thing; we’ll have top TV networks on-site on Friday – Reuters, CCTV and Bloomberg….

Some pictures of the setup in the Regent Hotel we took today:

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Sybase event on TV (excerpts of CNN, DAF, DowJones, Bloomberg)

by Sven Herold (SAP AG) on August 20, 2010

DowJones (German only – Interview in English)

SAP’s McDermott Excerpt on Sybase Acquisition
Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) — Bill McDermott, co-chief executive officer of SAP AG, discusses his company’s acquisition of Sybase Inc. (This report is an excerpt. Source: Bloomberg)

Deutsches Anlegerfernsehen (DAF) – [German only]

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… it’s over :-)

August 19, 2010

The press conference about SAP’s Sybase acquisition, co-hosted in Frankfurt and Boston is just over. N24 already broadcasted the interview with Jim Hagemann Snabe – stay tuned for Deutsches Anlegerfernsehen, Dow Jones NewsWires, n-tv and Rhein Neckar Fernsehen, as well as Bloomberg and CNN international (as stated in my earlier post). The stage is already [...]

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Last preparations event Boston/ Frankfurt

August 19, 2010

Today SAP is announcing its strategy behind the acquisition of Sybase in a huge press event co-hosted in Boston and Frankfurt. Sybase CEO John Chen and SAP’s Co-CEO Bill McDermott will be presenting in Boston together with SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka. In Frankfurt the event will be hosted by Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe.

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Next Big Thing: Organic Electronics

August 4, 2010

Actually we are producing an SAP TV film about a future technology with enormous market potential: organic electronics.
In Germany, companies such as BASF, Merck, Heidelberg and SAP are working on innovations  that have the potential to revolutionize our daily lifes – Organic LEDs, that consume 50 % less energy than energy saving lamps and can light up entire walls. Thin, transparent solar-cell sheets that [...]

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Event in India with former president APJ Kalam – 4000 employees onsite + TV audience

August 2, 2010

This Friday was a special day for our employess in India. At the SAP’s Leadership Talk Series, organized by V R Ferose, managing director, SAP Labs India, former Inidan president Kalam held forth for 45 minutes in a thought-provoking and motivational speech. The session was opened by board member and CTO Vishal Sikka with an [...]

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Updated: SAP Co CEOs in an exclusive CNBC interview July 30

July 29, 2010

Update August, 2: The final interview has been broadcasted throughout the weekend on CNBC and is now also available online:

As part of our different activities regarding SAP’s Q2 announcement this Tuesday we also had a CNBC team in our Walldorf headquarters.

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Exclusive: See what’s coming 2011 – Behind the scenes with a SAP developer

July 27, 2010

Our reporter Jessica Seilnacht is back from her trip to Israel. She had additional shootings also in Germany. Right now the team is working on the final video, which will be published soon. Today we disclosed for the first time pictures of SAP’s mobile software, which is just in the development process and will run [...]

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