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Date 27 Mar 2013
In recognition of partner contributions to customer success and innovation, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the recipients of the 2013 SAP Pinnacle awards. The awards are presented annually to the top SAP partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and driving customer success.

Date 11 Mar 2013
Nationwide Building Society today launches FlexPlus, its newest current account and the latest market leading product made possible by the Society’s new banking platform delivered by IBM, SAP AG and Axxiome.

Date 20 Feb 2013
SAP AG announced upcoming activities with customers and partners at CeBIT 2013, being held March 5-9 in Hanover, Germany. At the event, SAP will showcase comprehensive solutions, technologies and services for businesses of all sizes and in all industries.

Date 29 Jan 2013
IBM is announcing today that IBM SmartCloud for SAP Applications, an enterprise service unique to IBM, is available globally. "IBM's new cloud service for SAP applications exemplifies our two companies' work together in the last 40 years in delivering enterprise value to thousands of clients," said Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board, Technology and Innovation.

Date 25 Jul 2012
Today, SAP and IBM are announcing plans to establish a joint engagement, integrating technical support for SAP MaxAttention customers. As part of this engagement, IBM will be part of the new SAP Mission Control Center (MCC) in Beijing, China, establishing a single point of contact for customer incident requests.

Date 25 Apr 2012
IBM introduced new IBM PowerLinux Systems and Solutions to help customers exploit the cost efficiency of Linux and virtualization for business-critical workloads.

Date: 11 April 2012
More than 600 companies around the world announced support for IBM’s new family of expert integrated computing systems designed to radically simplify enterprise computing by making it easier, more secure and less expensive to own and maintain.

Date: 12 Oct 2011
IBM today unveiled the industry’s most advanced cloud services and software designed from the ground up for enterprise clients. New IBM SmartCloud services and capabilities introduce unprecedented choice, security and portability as businesses shift critical activities to the cloud and use it as a platform for business.

Date: 15 Sept 2011
SAP InnoJam at TechEd Las Vegas was an intense competition between 13 teams performing 34 hours of programming to create innovative business applications that leverage the latest technology. This year's overarching goal was to create Gamified business applications -- those that are entertaining, engaging, and that give users (or as they say: players) a positive and motivating experience with SAP software.

Date: 24 June 2011
IBM announced that the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee selected IBM software and hardware to automate and consolidate its data center operations to enable a cloud-based service for delivering SAP®-based courses to students.

Date: 21 June 2011
Since May 2010 SAP has chosen IBM to be one of their first technology partners to provide a hardware platform for SAP HANA™ appliance software, which uses in-memory computing for real-time analysis of data.

Date: 18 May 2011
IBM announced that it received the highest scores for its SAP services strategy and current offerings in the April 2011 Forrester Research, Inc. report, The Forrester Wave™ : SAP Services Provider, Q2 2011.

Date: 20 Apr 2011
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that Audi selected IBM to build a cloud environment for Audi's SAP infrastructure to deliver higher performance, fast and flexible provisioning of SAP applications and capacities, lower infrastructure costs, and to deliver above-average energy efficiency with the ability to enlarge future SAP applications to an almost unlimited extent.

Date: 07 Apr 2011
IBM unveiled its next generation IBM SmartCloud, an enterprise-class, secure cloud specifically created to meet the demands of businesses.

Date: 06 Apr 2011
IBM introduced new systems that are optimized for client workloads. The new x86-based servers extend the market-leading capabilities of its System x portfolio and raise the limits on enterprise workloads, memory and scaling. The new blade and rack servers rely on IBM’s exclusive X-Architecture® technology to offer clients advanced computing platforms designed to wring maximum performance from the new Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family.

02 Mar 2011
IBM and SAP have signed a 2-year extension to their Global Value Added Reseller (gVAR) agreement. This agreement extends the ability of IBM and IBM Business Partners to resell SAP® Business All-in-One solutions as part of the IBM Express Solutions portfolio for SAP.

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