Event Report: Sapphire 2010 Brings Customers Back To A Sense Of Normalcy
Co CEO’s Stabilize The Company Both SAP Co-CEO’s Bill McDermott (Orlando) and Jim Hagemann Snabe (Frankfurt) took stage on May 18, 2010, in a simulcasted keynote. While Bill highlighted SAP’s future vision and commitment to customers, Jim focused on communicating the SAP product strategy to match the corporate vision. Customers, partners, and influencers sought an […]
SAP acquires Sybase: Mobility and database options
SAP announced today the acquisition of software maker, Sybase, for approximately $6 billion. The deal positions SAP to become a significant player in the mobile enterprise software market, offer additional flexibility to customers, and eventually move the company toward database independence from Oracle. During the analyst conference call announcing the acquisition, SAP’s co-CEO, Bill McDermott, […]
SAP-Sybase: First Take
Image via Wikipedia First of all, I wish SAP had not done this. They have enough on their plate without adding another layer of complexity and chaos to distract management. But having said that, Sybase is a nice move, if it can give its customers a choice beyond Oracle, and help Dr. Plattner with more […]
Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement: David Brown of Motorola
I missed the first morning of the IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement conference in Toronto today, but with my usual impeccable timing, showed up just in time for lunch (where we had to explain the rules of curling to the American attendees). The first session this afternoon is with David Brown, a black […]
SAP keeps it interesting!
Even more changes under way at SAP. First, SAP announced a major shake-up in mid-January. Next, this past Sunday, SAP’s CEO abruptly left the company and was replaced by co-CEO’s.Today, the other shoe dropped. Several pieces of news were announced, …
Event Report: 2009 SAP Influencer Summit – SAP Must Put Strategy To Execution In Order To Prove Clarity Of Vision
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Re-innovation Now At The Heart Of SAP’s Focus And Strategy
SAP has faced a rough two years. From the continuing market pressure on new license revenue, false-start launch of Business By Design (ByD), management restructuring, and issues with […]
Twitter in the Enterprise – Round 9037472947
SAP has provided a Virtual Environment, where analysts, media, bloggers can interactively participate – right now I am watching a live video on their On Demand Strategy (hm.. how appropriate – watching the On-Demand session on-demand). The Virtual Environment includes Twitter tools, including sentiment analysis based on SAP’s Business Objects technology:
The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management
In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have been forgiven for being less than optimistic about the prospects of innovation in the Analytics, Business Intelligence, and […]
