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SAP/SuccessFactors — Help Me Count The HRM Codebases

SAP/SuccessFactors — Help Me Count The HRM Codebases

By Naomi Bloom on December 5, 2011

Shall We Leverage Your Code Or Mine? I’m working on a mega-post about the SAP/SuccessFactors deal, but in the meantime I could use your help in making sure I’ve got the full list of HRM-related codebases that must be addressed — strategically and tactically — as a part of this deal.   Much of this post […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, enterprise software, HRM Software, Plateau, SaaS, sap, SAPSFSF, SFSF, SuccessFactor | 4 Responses

The (ERP) Shootout That Isn’t.

The (ERP) Shootout That Isn’t.

By Zoli Erdos on August 21, 2011

<rant> We’ve often discussed SaaS Suites, ERP, specific vendors like SAP and Netsuite, so seeing this tweet by SAP a good month ago of course piqued my curiosity: @SAPByDesign RT @VendorShootout: Business #ByDesign: The Most Complete,Adaptable OnDemand Business Solution http://spr.ly/6019RH4S #erp <-reg 2 download Wow. It looks like SAP’s SaaS offering, Business ByDesign won some […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business ByDesign, erp, marketing, netsuite, SaaS ERP, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP ByD, software as a service, software selection, White paper | 3 Responses

Converging Giants: Microsoft Dynamics lines up against SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce.com

Converging Giants: Microsoft Dynamics lines up against SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce.com

By Josh Greenbaum on April 15, 2011

I’ve just come back the Microsoft Dynamics’ Convergence conference, where the news about Dynamics’ progress in the enterprise software space can be summed up in the following manner: The company’s two flagship products, AX and Dynamics CRM, have reached a functional level that basically places them on par with the best of their respective categories. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, CRM, erp, microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, ms dynamics, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, Uncategorized | 2 Responses

SAP Sales OnDemand – Addressing the Lingering Questions

SAP Sales OnDemand – Addressing the Lingering Questions

By Jon Reed on April 1, 2011

On November 8, 2008, John Wookey left Oracle to lead SAP’s large enterprise “Line of Business” (LOB) team. Since Wookey joined SAP, we’ve seen internal clarifications of SAP’s LOB on-demand strategy, but not much new product. That changed on February 24, 2011, when SAP hosted a group of “influencers” at the Boston Museum of Science […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, CRM, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SAP Sales On-Demand, SAP SOD, StreamWork, Wookey | 12 Responses

SAP’s In-memory Hana Database Appliance Gets Apped

SAP’s In-memory Hana Database Appliance Gets Apped

By Josh Greenbaum on March 10, 2011

The old canard the SAP is not an innovator took another hit this week with the partial unveiling of a new set of applications built to run on top of SAP’s Hana in-memory database system. The new apps, due out in a set of rolling releases thus year, fill an important gap in SAP’s Hana […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, business suite, erp, HANA, ibm, in-memory database, sap, SAP Hana | 2 Responses

SAP CRM Sales On-demand Heads to Market

SAP CRM Sales On-demand Heads to Market

By Josh Greenbaum on March 3, 2011

More proof that SAP is serious about making a break from its on-premise past and in the process challenge on-demand titan Salesforce.com came last week in the form of a preview look at SAP Sales On-demand. The preview, granted to a group of industry analysts in Boston, proved that SAP isn’t afraid to be innovative […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business ByDesign, ByD, CRM, microsoft, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SAP ByD, SAP Sales OnDemand, sapsod, Uncategorized | 3 Responses

SAP Sales OnDemand: Got It, Got It, Need It?

SAP Sales OnDemand: Got It, Got It, Need It?

By Paul Greenberg on March 2, 2011

For an inconceivably long time, I have been a fan of SAP’s without being anywhere close to a fan of their on demand a.k.a. SaaS a.k.a. sorta cloud, efforts. In fact, if you remember I ripped Business By Design a new one even as recently as Sapphire 2010 last May. But, at an invite-only Influencers Day […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged activity stream, Business ByDesign, ByD, collaboration, collaborative sales, CRM, erp, Sales On-Demand, salesforce.com, sap, SAP ByD, sapsod, software as a service, StreamWork

Carnac The Magnificent: Unseen Answers To 2011′s Unknown Questions

Carnac The Magnificent: Unseen Answers To 2011′s Unknown Questions

By Naomi Bloom on January 31, 2011

Carnac the Magnificent When we lost Johnny Carson, we lost a great entertainer.  For thirty years, 1962 to 1992, he dominated late night television, and he did that without insulting our intelligence or our sensibilities.  My beloved grandmother, Bubbi Bloom, with whom I lived through much of high school, would get ready for Johnny’s Tonight […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPO, Business ByDesign, David Duffield, enterprise software, HRM Software, Human resources, Johnny Carson, Looking Back/Looking Forward, PeopleSoft, software as a service, talent management, workday

PaaS choices today

PaaS choices today

By Phil Wainewright on December 15, 2010

In the light of Salesforce.com’s swathe of announcements at Dreamforce last week and other recent developments, it’s a good time to take stock of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) landscape. What are the choices now available to developers and business people looking to build applications on a ready-to-run cloud platform? As part of this review, I’ll report […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business ByDesign, ByD, Cloud Computing, df10, Dreamforce, heroku, PaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SpringSource | 2 Responses

Sexy enterprise software, part two: SAP and Workday

Sexy enterprise software, part two: SAP and Workday

By Michael Krigsman on December 14, 2010

Part one of this post establishes the premise that cloud-computing has reinvigorated enterprise software and describes the importance of feelgood mojo in creating a sense of customer delight. Related: Sexy enterprise software, part one: Salesforce.com gets its mojo As I explained in Part One, three events last week foreshadow the renewal of enterprise software as an […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business ByDesign, ByD, CRM, df10, dreamfoce, enterprise software, erp, netsuite, salesforce.com, sap, tco, workday

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