Was the S4HANA launch rushed?
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 […]
How To Plan For SAP’s S/4 HANA Upgrade And Contract Negotiations Strategy #SAPHANA
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 […]
The SAP Fort Knox
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 […]
I sense a disturbance in the enterprise Force
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 […]
Event Report: SAP Australian User Group Summit Highlights Systematic Concerns About SAP
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 […]
Hasso’s Dozen
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 […]
Shame on who?
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 […]
Technology in healthcare, a post-Sapphirenow update
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. […]
News Analysis: SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka Resigns, What Does It Mean For SAP Customers?
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 […]
Database Billboards: Times and Cars and Oracle Competitors Gone By
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 […]
