But Mr. Salus expects consumers' level of interest in network traffic to rise, particularly as more bandwidth-sapping technologies become part of their daily lives.
The chapter also highlights the SAP technologies available for implementing and institutionalizing security into the technology plans and implementations throughout the industry.
As for deals, analysts said Mr. Kagermann was not looking for a major purchase but smaller software developers that could plug gaps in SAP's technology or give it an entree to midsize companies.
Of course, there are technologies purpose-built to stop unused tabs from sapping resources, but those are band-aids that address the symptom not the disease.
The result would "sap the spirit" of technology entrepreneurs, they argued.
Over the past several years Cowpland has embraced untested new technologies and committed resources to projects that turned out to be dead ends, sapping Corel's finances in the process.
Sleep HealthCenters closed some of its facilities as its revenue fell, but its fortunes faded rapidly and the following year it threw in the towel.In this section Learning the lingo Give me another hit Not big enough The Big Bang Theory ReprintsLike Sleep HealthCenters' bosses, plenty of other executives have had nightmares as competitors wielding new technologies have sapped their firms' profits.
Ultimately, though, interactive technology may well sap more advertising revenue from the industry than it creates.
The chief danger of bringing postal delivery back into the government embrace is that its ability to maintain efficiency and keep on top of technology might be sapped.
A fancy new database by SAP, another German technology firm, will give Siemens executives an instant look into almost any project the company is working on.
"People said, 'You had to listen".' Still, for SAP, a German technology giant that has grown up in the shadow of I.B.M. and Microsoft, the announcement amounted to a brassy coming-out.
