By R "Ray" Wang on May 19, 2010
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 […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 16, 2010
Collaborative Research Process At Work I’m pleased to say, that I’ll be joining fellow Enterprise Irregulars – Michael Cote, Larry Dignan, Michael Krigsman, and Vinnie Mirchandani; SAP Mentors – Dennis Howlett and Jon Reed, along with esteemed journalist Thomas Wailgum from CIO magazine to gauge the sentiment of SAP users. We may be adding a […]
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By Phil Wainewright on March 19, 2010
From the customer’s perspective, it’s all the same. If it’s provided over the Internet on a pay-for-usage basis, it’s a cloud service. Within the industry, we argue about definitions more than is good for us. Customers look in from the outside and see a much simpler array of choices. Why is this important? It matters […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business applications, ByD, Cloud Computing, ecosystems, erp, europe, Marketplaces, Platform as a service, SaaS, sap, SAP Business ByDesign, Utility computing
By R "Ray" Wang on January 27, 2010
Oracle Rolls Out A New “Red Stack”
With EU approval out of the way, Oracle finalizes the Sun deal and resumes its quest for the largest share of the IT wallet. Oracle’s 60+ acquisitions follow a concerted strategy and Sun adds key areas such as servers and storage. Key areas include Vertical Apps, Horizontal Apps, Middleware, […]
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By Phil Wainewright on January 20, 2010
Today’s announcement that Microsoft and Intuit are to marry up their cloud platforms with a software development kit makes perfect sense to me. Some of my ZDNet colleagues have been less impressed — Dennis Howlett calls it more PaaS to put in your aaS environment while Mary Jo Foley says it’s to shore up Redmond’s […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 11, 2009
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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 […]
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