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Was the S4HANA launch rushed?

Was the S4HANA launch rushed?

By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 13, 2015

As I listened to the SAP launch in NYC of its S4 product I told a few folks I was struck how high level the presentation was. That they should have field tested and matured the pitch with many customers and presented a more mature version at Sapphire 3 months from now. I went back […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged bill mcdermott, Forbes, Hasso Plattner, SAP AG, SAP Hana

Hello again, Moore's Law

Hello again, Moore’s Law

By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 9, 2015

There are rumors of massive layoffs at IBM. True or not, there is no denying the company has had years of consecutive quarterly revenue declines. Poor Ginni Rommety gets the blame, but my view is IBM forgot about Moore’s Law and continuous value improvements as it diversified into software and services over the last two […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud Computing, ibm, moore's law, sap, SAP AG, Six Sigma

How To Plan For SAP’s S/4 HANA Upgrade And Contract Negotiations Strategy #SAPHANA

How To Plan For SAP’s S/4 HANA Upgrade And Contract Negotiations Strategy #SAPHANA

By R "Ray" Wang on February 4, 2015

 Launch Of SAP S/4 Provides Catalyst For Organizations To Update Their Next Gen Apps Strategy The February 3rd, 2015 New York City SAP S/4 launch event brought a positive closure for customers seeking the next generation apps strategy from SAP.  At a high level, the SAP S/4 HANA offering offers: a new suite of applications […]

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How SAP Missed An Opportunity

How SAP Missed An Opportunity

By Esteban Kolsky on February 4, 2015

Hello, it’s me again.  Your Friendly SAP — foe? If you follow me you know that I admire the technical prowess of SAP, but despise about twice as much their marketing “acumen” (there are no other words that are politically correct and fit nicely between quotation marks). I wrote about it in more detail in […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, HANA, microsoft, Oracle Corporation, S/4HANA, salesforce.com, SAP AG, SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors

Danger zone: Enterprise maintenance and support

Danger zone: Enterprise maintenance and support

By Michael Krigsman on February 4, 2015

Recently, a client asked for advice on whether to continue paying on-premise maintenance and support to a major software vendor. Support is a complicated issue for many IT organizations, with the pros and cons generally as follows: Why vendor-supplied enterprise support is valuable Avoiding risk: When the system has problems, you know who to call […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Constellation Research, Oracle Corporation, Platform as a service, SAP AG, software maintenance

The SAP Fort Knox

The SAP Fort Knox

By Vinnie Mirchandani on January 29, 2015

Andrew Nusca at Fortune interviews Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP here.  What’s striking is Bill talks incessantly about the “new SAP” : HANA, Ariba, Concur, SuccessFactors, Hybris, Fieldglass, Sybase. The stuff is not exactly new – most of the products are decades old, but they are new to SAP and Bill is clearly enamored with […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged bill mcdermott, Cloud Computing, Fort Knox, sap, SAP AG, SAP Hana, SuccessFactors | 1 Response

SAP Nation Excerpts: Chapter 1 - The Customer Pivot

SAP Nation Excerpts: Chapter 1 – The Customer Pivot

By Vinnie Mirchandani on December 19, 2014

Amazon has  SAP Nation on the Kindle and in softcover. Over the next few weeks the book will be available in other print and eBook formats. As I have done with my other books, I plan to excerpt here about 10% of the book over the next several weeks for my blog readers. Here is […]

Posted in Business | Tagged AstraZeneca, bp, e-book, Flextronics, kenandy, sap, SAP AG, SAP Nation, workday | 1 Response

Book review: SAP Nation — a must read for CIOs enterprise software watchers

Book review: SAP Nation — a must read for CIOs enterprise software watchers

By David Terrar on December 8, 2014

This is a must read, dissecting the massive SAP enterprise software ecosystem and economy. Hopefully senior executives, both in SAP and in the service providers and systems integrators that operate in the SAP Nation can put themselves in their customers shoes, read this book and listen to Vinnie Mirchandani’s call for action.

Posted in Business | Tagged Accenture, book review, Enterprise resource planning, Hasso Plattner, sap, SAP AG, SAP Nation | 4 Responses

SAP Nation Excerpts: Preface

SAP Nation Excerpts: Preface

By Vinnie Mirchandani on December 5, 2014

Amazon has released SAP Nation on the Kindle. Over the next few weeks the book will be available in other print and eBook formats. As I have done with my other books, I plan to excerpt here about 10% of the book over the next several weeks for my blog readers. Let’s start with the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged book review, Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard, ibm, Léo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, SAP AG, SAP Economy, SAP Nation

SAP Rumored to Launch Hana-Based Cloud Planning Solution Next Week

SAP Rumored to Launch Hana-Based Cloud Planning Solution Next Week

By Dave Kellogg on October 12, 2014

Well, it’s pretty clear that SAP will be announcing something in Chicago on Monday, judging by the above re-tweet from SAP head of EPM product management David Williams, and by the content in the SAP Conference for EPM program, itself: … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged EPM, HANA, NoSQL, salesforce.com, sap, SAP AG | 2 Responses

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