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- Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts
- The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and automating the planning and tracking of financial transactions from end to end...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign
- Peter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- SAP-as-a-Service: Will SMBs Bite?
- ZDNet blogging colleague Phil Wainewright has welcomed SAP to the ever more boisterous SaaS party. SAP's venture into SaaS may be its boldest move since MySAP.com. But are companies ready for such heavy-duty SaaS? That's because of the launch of SAP-as-a-Service this week. There's...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its BestAbsolutely Ridiculous - A1S = Way2LateThis advertisement for SAP is ridiculous in its lack of objectivity. Even people inside of SAP are not this bullish (i.e. are more balanced in their analysis) How many years has A1s been under...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite's IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software
- A response from SAP in the Oracle vs. SAP lawsuit and NetSuite files for an IPO. Two seemingly disconnected events trickled down through the technosphere during 4th of July week, and, having been blissfully disconnected myself for much of the week, I came back with a mission to try to...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- MySAP fades into history
- At SAPs Sapphire, SAP laid MySAP to rest and resurrected it as SAP ERP 6.0. Its merely a name change and will have no implication for customers, said Philip Say, vice president of European marketing and sales. "MySAP was of dot.com era, and was an artifact of 2005, when the...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Mapping the enterprise CRM landscape
- Forrester Research maps out the landscape in the enterprise CRM world in a report, "Enterprise CRM Suites, Q1 2007" ($995). Following is the executive summary:Forrester evaluated leading enterprise CRM suites vendors across 493 criteria and found that Oracles Siebel CRM and SAPs mySAP CRM are the clear Leaders. They offer...
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Parsing SAP's quest to add 60,000 customers by 2010
- Nick Carr stirred up the Enterprise Irregulars with his post on SAP and SaaS over the weekend. It spurred a lot of discussion about just how serious SAP is about the on demand, software-as-a-service model and how the new SAP A1S solution, which is due around year end, fits into...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- IPO candidate NetSuite fires a shot at SAP
- NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson has joined his former Oracle colleague and on demand software adherent, salesforce.com Marc Benioff, in predicting the failure of SAP to penetrate the SMB market. In his note to company staff see below, Nelson boasts, "If they are lucky, it will take SAP at least...
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Why pay SAP for software you don't use?
- I took a lot of heat last week from SAP and its friends over my posting about The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seats. Seems like I struck a raw nerve when I wrote: "The dirty secret why SAP had to launch...
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
- The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seats
- The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seatsWhat "secret"?The worst kept secret in IT I would say! Remember HP switching over to SAP? They had problems for months. Lets not mention the 6 figure salaries you have to pay the "experts" to come in and implement your SAP "solution" (if you...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
- The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seats
- The dirty secret why SAP had to launch an on-demand CRM offering is that its on-premises product is too hard to implement, reveals SearchSAP.com: "SAP customers couldn't get mySAP CRM up and running quickly, said...
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Can SAP CRM break out of the SoSaaS box?
- Everyone seems to expect that SAP's hosted CRM announcement, due Thursday, will be just another ho-hum reprise of the Same old Software, as a Service SoSaaS concept that's been tried and failed for so many other vendors. Certainly that was my expectation six months ago. But I'd much...
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
- On-demand upstarts beating Siebel for attention...and that's about it
- Today I came across Forrester’s latest CRM vendor evaluation: Siebel continues to lead the pack. Siebel continues to offer the most comprehensive solution-set for enterprise-class organizations, with the largest array of front-office solutions tailored to specific industry challenges and opportunities. SAP has momentum and is gaining ground. SAP, through mySAP...
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
- Accenture Report: mySAP Utilities on NetApp Filers
- As a founding member of the mySAP.com Partner Network, Accenture has worked directly with SAP to develop and enhance mySAP.com solutions. Accenture has received the SAP Award of Excellence on numerous occasions and has helped implement more than 1,000 SAP software solutions. Accenture was engaged by Network Appliance NetApp to...
- White papers 2005-07-12
- SAP-Microsoft--harsh market reality
- SAP-Microsoft--harsh market realityMicrosoft sucks, Linux is great, blah blah blah...Usual crap, start it up boys.You will see customers demanding open standards and interchangeable pieces.They have seen the prices go down by a factor of five when everything is open and replaceable. The pace of inovation is also much more rapid...
- Discussion threads 2004-07-06
- Supply Chain Planning With mySAP SCM: SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer Release 3.1
- This paper aims at providing information on mySAP Supply Chain Management mySAP SCM, which facilitates seamless integration with all mySAP.com solutions, including mySAP Supplier Relationship Management, mySAP Customer Relationship Management mySAP CRM, mySAP Product Lifecycle Management mySAP PLM, and mySAP Business Intelligence. mySAP SCM is the supply chain solution that...
- White papers 2002-05-13
- Cadbury Schweppes Undertakes Global Restructuring Using mySAP.com
- Cadbury Schweppes has used IT systems since the 1970s. It's use of SAP as one of a number of ERP systems dates back to 1994. The group's IT infrastructure was fragmented because its growth was largely driven by purchasing other companies in a series of takeovers. The diverse organizations that...
- Case studies
- CRM With mySAP.com
- Wuerth Japan imports and markets automobile repair and maintenance products by means of business processes that rely on a highly mobile sales force. To support these processes, the company decided to deploy Mobile Sales for handhelds. Wuerth Japan looked around carefully to find a replacement before opting for the Mobile...
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