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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

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #techoptimization, Apps Strategy, Architecture, best practices, Business suite 7, ByD, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, Cloud, Constellation Research, deployment options, Digital Transformation, digitaltransformation, Ensw, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise resource planning, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, erp, event report, Legacy Optimization, next gen apps, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, S/4, sap, SAP AG, SAP Business Suite 7, SAP Enterprise Support, SAP ERP, SAP Hana, SAP Hybris, saphana, SAUGSummit, SOA, Software Insider, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software maintenance, software ownership, SoftwareInsider, Technology Optimization, user strategy, vendor strategy

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

I sense a disturbance in the enterprise Force

I sense a disturbance in the enterprise Force

By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 11, 2014

Starting next week I will get briefings from a wide range of enterprise players – Infor, Workday, Oracle, Rimini, Salesforce and Microsoft among them. Conference season is in full swing. I have not been so excited in a long time. The reason is I feel a thaw in the enterprise market. My SAP Economy book […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged HANA, microsoft, Rimini, sap, SAP Hana, workday

Event Report: SAP Australian User Group Summit Highlights Systematic Concerns About SAP

Event Report: SAP Australian User Group Summit Highlights Systematic Concerns About SAP

By R "Ray" Wang on September 9, 2014

  Australian Users Concerns About SAP Similar To Other Global Users Over 500 Australian SAP users gathered between September 8th and 9th, 2014 at the Sydney Hilton for the annual user conference.  Users came from IT roles, marketing, HR, and finance.  In speaking to over 100 attendees, key concerns include: Lack of clarity in future […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #techoptimization, Apps Strategy, Architecture, best practices, Business suite 7, ByD, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, Cloud, Constellation Research, deployment options, Digital Transformation, digitaltransformation, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise resource planning, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, erp, event report, Legacy Optimization, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, sap, SAP AG, SAP Australian User Group, SAP Business Suite 7, SAP Enterprise Support, SAP ERP, SAP Hana, SAP Hybris, SAUGSummit, SOA, Software Insider, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software maintenance, software ownership, SoftwareInsider, Technology Optimization, user conference, user event, user group event, user group events, user groups, user strategy, vendor strategy

Hasso's Dozen

Hasso’s Dozen

By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 3, 2014

Dr. Hasso Plattner has written a long blog post about Business Suite on HANA. He has 12 reasons justifying why. His passion for the product screams through the post. I wish he would make it a Baker’s dozen and add a 13th point: that SAP plans to change its business model around HANA. I am […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, google, HANA, Hasso Plattner, ibm, sap, SAP Hana | 3 Responses

Shame on who?

Shame on who?

By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 25, 2014

You have heard the expression “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”. But if you get fooled 6-7-8 times, who do you blame? As I go through every nook and crevice of the SAP economy for the book I am writing, it is staggering how every type of vendor has […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged erp, Level-5, sap, SAP Hana, Six Sigma

Technology in healthcare, a post-Sapphirenow update

Technology in healthcare, a post-Sapphirenow update

By Tom Raftery on June 17, 2014

As noted here recently, technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry. And that was brought home to us forcefully when we attended SAP’s 2014 Sapphirenow conference last week. I had fifteen meetings scheduled at the event, and while there wasn’t much mention of healthcare during the keynotes, seven of my fifteen meetings were healthcare related. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged EMR, genomics, Health, Healthcare, sap, SAP Hana, sapphirenow | 1 Response

News Analysis: SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka Resigns, What Does It Mean For SAP Customers?

News Analysis: SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka Resigns, What Does It Mean For SAP Customers?

By R "Ray" Wang on May 4, 2014

Departure of CTO Signals Change In Long Term Direction In a press release this morning, SAP announced a management reorganization and the departure of Vishal Sikka, SAP’s executive board member of products and innovation and CTO (see Figure 1).   The reorganization puts Bernd Leukert as Vishal’s immediate replacement to lead global development.  The role of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #cxotalk, #timelessreorg, 2014, Apps Strategy, Bernd Leukert, Chief information officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CTO, Ensw, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, In memory, in-memory database, mobile, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, sap, SAP Hana, sapphirenow, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy, Vishal Sikka | 2 Responses

Informix Damn the Torpedoes

Database Billboards: Times and Cars and Oracle Competitors Gone By

By Dennis Moore on August 16, 2013

Driving up or down 101 these days, you can’t avoid the new SiliconView billboard – it’s a double-sided electronic billboard, so you can see it whether you are going north- or south-bound, and most of us on 101 are driving slowly enough that we get to see several iterations of the billboard content as we […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Billboard, Database, DB2, ibm, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Informix, Larry Ellison, oracle, San Francisco, sap, SAP Hana, Sybase | 3 Responses

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