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SAP’s Brand, Product Lines and Channel Partners- Reconciliation Needed

SAP’s Brand, Product Lines and Channel Partners- Reconciliation Needed

By Brian Sommer on August 6, 2013

I attended SAP’s Channel Partner Summit in Miami last week.  While I generally applaud (and welcome) Jonathan Becher’s (SAP’s CMO) decision to reposition SAP’s brand, I believe some bigger issues have yet to be reconciled or subdued. These issues impact SAP’s channel partners, the company itself and its customers. SAP CMO Jonathan Becher Copyright 2013 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, ByD, echosystem, sap, SAP AG, SAP ByD, SuccessFactors

SAP, SAP, Wherefore Art Thou SAP?

SAP, SAP, Wherefore Art Thou SAP?

By Naomi Bloom on May 28, 2013

SAP Founders 1988 — Klaus Tschira On The Left I’ve always had a warm spot in my heart for SAP.  When I published my first (and thus far only) 700+ page book in 1994 (“Human Resource Management and Information Technology: Achieving A Strategy Partnership”), Klaus Tschira, one of SAP’s founders, became a big fan of my […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, enterprise software, HANA, Licensed/On-Premise Software, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Memories Of Jack Bloom, Models/Modeling, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, sap, SAP Hana, SAPSFSF, SuccessFactors, Uncategorized | 1 Response

Why Cloud ERP?  Cutesy Video

Why Cloud ERP? Cutesy Video

By Zoli Erdos on August 13, 2012

The cutesy video above was created by SAP, the first part talking about the benefits of Cloud ERP, the integrated approach in general, and while the last minute turns into a SAP Business ByDesign pitch, it could very well be viewed as overall industry promotion, applicable to archrival NetSuite, and to some extent Workday, and […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged application software, Business ByDesign, Cloud ERP, netsuite, SaaS ERP, sap, SAP ByD, Video, workday

Photo credit: SAP

SAP Energizes Its Cloud Strategy – The Lars Dalgaard Era Begins

By Josh Greenbaum on May 25, 2012

One of the most amazing cross-country flights I ever took found me over the center of the country at night, flying through an unbelievable electric storm, with an almost constant arcing of lightning illuminating vast canyons and mountains of clouds. As the pilot maneuvered us through this unforgettable vision of nature’s wonder, he came on […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, Lars Dalgaard, sap, SuccessFactors | 2 Responses

SAP Assembles Powerful Cloud Portfolio with Ariba, SuccesFactors Acquisitions

SAP Assembles Powerful Cloud Portfolio with Ariba, SuccesFactors Acquisitions

By Zoli Erdos on May 22, 2012

Emphasis on  “assemble”, as opposed to develop.  For years SAP and Oracle fought a religious war of acquire/assemble vs develop in-house.  SAP’s view was (even under the current Co-CEOs) that you can only get to a coherent, seamlessly integrated suite by development.  Apparently they have changed religion, borrowing a chapter or two from Larry Ellison’s […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business ByDesign, Larry Ellison, Lars Dalgaard, netsuite, sap, sapariba, sapphirenow, SuccessFactors | 3 Responses

Cloud dancing: CIO perspective on SAP's cloud strategy

Cloud dancing: CIO perspective on SAP’s cloud strategy

By Michael Krigsman on May 21, 2012

SAP has made important strides in building a cloud strategy. Here’s what you need to know.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged A1S, bill mcdermott, Business ByDesign, ByD, erp, Henning Kagermann, Lars Dalgaard, sap, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP ByD, sapphirenow, software as a service, SuccessFactors

NetSuite Welcomes SAP as Customer, even while SAP Swaps it for ByD

NetSuite Welcomes SAP as Customer, even while SAP Swaps it for ByD

By Zoli Erdos on May 15, 2012

NetSuite History, Wayne’s World style NetSuite is no stranger to aggressive marketing,  and SAP has clearly been their #1 target for a while starting from pranks like the SAP for the Rest of Us Party during SAPPHIRE 2006 to staging a shootout at the anti-SAP Conference or releasing edgy videos a’la Mac vs Windows and […]

Posted in Business | Tagged application software, Business ByDesign, netsuite, sap, SAP ByD, sapphirenow, software as a service, SuccessFactors, SuiteWorld, two-tier ERP, Zach Nelson

SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign

SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign

By Phil Wainewright on May 15, 2012

There was a great piece of theatre on stage at SuiteWorld in San Francisco this morning when NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson revealed that the company had signed an important new customer from the computing world: its archrival SAP. The software behemoth’s newly acquired subsidiary, SuccessFactors, remains a NetSuite customer, Nelson revealed: “They just renewed their […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business ByDesign, Lars Dalgaard, netsuite, sap, SuccessFactors, Zach Nelson | 3 Responses

Bring out the fact checkers

Bring out the fact checkers

By Vinnie Mirchandani on January 10, 2012

‘Tis the season for debates and fact checking statements by candidates. Not politicians, but technology vendors.
Like this one by SAP in a column titled Cloud Strategy that I saw courtesy of Jon Reed:

Posted in Business | Tagged Business ByDesign, Cloud ERP, erp, Hype, netsuite, SaaS ERP, sap, SuccessFactors, workday | 1 Response

What a Large Enterprise CIO Would Think of the SAP Cloud Position

What a Large Enterprise CIO Would Think of the SAP Cloud Position

By Brian Sommer on December 15, 2011

I’m well into the second day of the SAP Analyst Summit.  SAP executives have been pounding the following talking points: –          We’ve caught up on the cloud! –          We have a lot of on-demand apps! –          We can’t wait to cross-sell these to our client base! –          We will continue to build more on-demand apps […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, netsuite, sap, sapsummit, SuccessFactors, workday

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