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Event Report: Sapphire 2010 Brings Customers Back To A Sense Of Normalcy

Event Report: Sapphire 2010 Brings Customers Back To A Sense Of Normalcy

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged bbd, bill mcdermott, Business by Design, Business Objects, ByD, Cisco, Clear Standars, Cloud, ecosystems, EhP, EMC, event report, intel, iPad, Jim Hagemann Snabe, On Demand, On Device, on-premise, oracle, real-time, RIM, SaaS, sap, SAPPHIRE, sapphirenow, sustainable, Sybase, Syclo, unwired, Vishal Sikka, VM Ware

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List - Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List – Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

By R "Ray" Wang on January 6, 2010

High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1).  In addition, rapidly changing business […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 3PM, adobe, ALM, application extension and usability, application life cycle management, Apps Strategy, archiving, CIO, cost reduction, customer experience management, disaster recovery, DR, EMC, enterprise applications, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, ERP-Link, Friday's Feature, GuiXT, HA, Hayes Technology, high availability, Hyperformix, ibm, IBM Optim, IntelliCorp, license management, license policy, license returns, long term apps strategy, maintenance fees, Microsoft integration, Microsoft Office, optimization, partner ecosystems, RainStor, rimini street, sap, SAP Duet, secondary market, shelfware, software bill of rights, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software pricing, Storage, SusenSoftware, Synactive, The SAP Optimization List, Third Party Maintenance, Tidal Software, Tuesday's Tip, ue, ui, upgrades, usability, used software, UsedSoft, User Experience, user interaction, user strategy, users, virtualization, VM Ware, VMware, West Trax, Winshuttle | 3 Responses

Best Practices: Lessons Learned In What SMB’s Want From Their ERP Provider

Best Practices: Lessons Learned In What SMB’s Want From Their ERP Provider

By R "Ray" Wang on November 2, 2009

Competition Intensifies For The Small And Medium Organization’s Software Budget

Software vendors such as Oracle and SAP can no longer rely on their large enterprise customers for double digit year-over-year growth.  In fact, their customers have not only reached a saturation point in being able to consume new solutions, but have also faced demands to cut […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged best practices, business requirements, business solutions, CDC Software, channel programs, channels, Cloud Computing, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Epicor, erp, Exact Software, financing options, IFS, Infor, Lawson, market strategy, microsoft, Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office, netsuite, oracle, QAD, SaaS, smb, sme, social enterprise apps, Software Ecosystems, software trends, Software Vendors, SYSPRO, vendor financing, vendor strategy, VM Ware, Web 2.0

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