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- SAP's Business ByDesign: Explaining the Delays
- In the wake of the brouhaha surrounding the delayed rollout of Business ByDesign and the allegations of technical difficulties (the thread in the Enterprise Irregulars discussion was called BBD=DOA?), I spoke to Hans-Peter Klaey and Jeff Stiles, the two men at SAP responsible for bringing BBD, and the rest of...
- Tags: SAP AG, BBD, Sales Force Management, Performance Management, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign II
- Following yesterday's post on the management changes at SAP and the pending departure of Peter Zencke, I got a call from SAP. Would I be available to discuss the issue with Peter ASAP? Here's some highlights from the conversation: As reported, Zencke is retiring from the...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?
- SAP executed the beginning of a well-orchestrated and otherwise somewhat boring and boring is good management transition with the much-expected elevation of co-CEO Leo Apotheker to the more important title of heir-apparent. In the process, Henning Kagermann assumed the title of retiree-in-waiting, and all was good with the world. ...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Force Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- SAP Targets High-end Customers with SMB Offering
- SAP's Business ByDesign has always suffered from a perception problem: SAP has said pretty much categorically that it will be only sold into the SMB market. This position has been stuck to steadfastly, despite lots of evidence that high-end customers would love to have some or all of BBD's functionality...
- Tags: SAP AG, Small And Medium Business, BBD, Smb/Sme, Pricing, Marketing Research, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- SAP Business ByDesign: Competitive Advantage and the Dynamics of Enterprise Software
- There are lots of reasons why companies chose SaaS/On Demand applications, but driving competitive advantage is not always at the top of the list. That's why SAP's Business ByDesign announcement this week in New York looked a little more interesting than other SaaS/OD announcements I've attended. The customers that SAP...
- Tags: Competitive Advantage, SAP AG, SOA, Business ByDesign, SaaS/OD, BBD, Market-leader, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Roi/Tco, Model-Driven Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Business ByDesign: an Irregular verdict
- After a long day and intense series of discussions with SAP executives, the Enterprise Irregulars parsed immediate impressions of Business ByDesign. The general mood was one of quiet approval for a product set that is, as the company claims, a complete on-demand offering. Our generally positive...
- Tags: SAP AG, Downside, BBD, SAP Business ByDesign, Sales Force Management, Games, Channel Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- BBD Case Study: On Lok SeniorHealth Intranet
- On Lok SeniorHealth is a comprehensive health plan that offers an alternative to nursing home care for elderly in the San Francisco Bay Area. After a successful development and launch of the public web site for On Lok SeniorHealth (www.onlok.org), On Lok approached BBd again to develop their Intranet. BBd...
- Tags: Intranet, BBd
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- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict
- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdictYou make some good pointsThere is much in BBD that could be delivered as a standard accounting package to replace those mid-tier accounting packages like Great Plains the functionality for basic accounting is already there. Your point about putting this into the market is a valid...
- Tags: accounting, Irregular, Business ByDesign, accounting package
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict
- I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...
- Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- The Leo Apotheker Legacy Starts Now
- The news that SAP is delaying the roll-out of Business ByDesign – and that its last quarter, while decent, failed to meet analyst estimates – is the perfect preamble to this post: With Leo Apotheker slated to assume to mantle of SAP by the end of the year, his...
- Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, TCO, Sales, Leo Apotheker, Leo, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- SAP confirms Business ByDesign delay
- Updated: SAP on Wednesday confirmed a delay in its Business ByDesign software as a service suite. The company said: Since last September's announcement of SAP Business ByDesign, the Company has been working closely with early customers and partners to validate and fine-tune the solution. As a...
- Tags: Euro, SAP AG, Data Model, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- SAP and Microsoft: No Marriage Needed
- The Sunday New York Times started a little blogo-versy going about whether Microsoft should have made an offer to buy SAP instead of Yahoo. It's an interesting thought, if revisiting history is your idea of interesting. But if you're living in the present, as many of my fellow bloggers (Vinnie...
- Tags: SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Tools & Techniques, Investment, Finance, Software, Management, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
- Dark Clouds and Silver LiningsWhy Does SAP's product have the vision but lack in execution?It's always hard to tell from ads and web sites, but it seems as if it has it all.BBD Awating A Full-blown LaunchThe lack of execution I mention relates to the fact that SAP is still...
- Tags: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- NetSuite bullish on saas business, swipes at SAP, Microsoft and Sage
- During the first earnings conference call following its IPO, NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson was in bullish mood, summarizing 2007 as "The year of the suite. By any measure...the move to the on-demand imperative became inevitable." International revenue doubled and now international revenues account for 18 per cent compared to 14...
- Tags: Revenue, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- SAP and TIBCO: a marriage to make in hell?
- SAP and TIBCO: a marriage to make in hell?More matchmaking ideas for what they're worthDennis, thanks for referencing my article from last spring. I know you realize this, Dennis, but for others, please note that I wasn't thinking about mergers and acquisitions as Dennis is. I was just writing...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, IBM Corp., TIBCO Software Inc., Dennis
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- SAP and TIBCO: a marriage to make in hell?
- Dana Gardner says that TIBCO must surely be in the firing line for an approach. I agree. Dana thinks Sun is the natural ally: Other vendors will be significantly impacted by the proposed merger as well. Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and TIBCO will face a tougher market. That's because...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Dana, SAPs BusinessObjects Acquisition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- SAP's Business ByDesign go to market
- SAP's Business ByDesign go to marketSAP Consultants - The Midmarket FactorThis article by Sam Sliman, president for Optimal Solutions Integrations, Inc., recently posted on the Optimal SAP Blog [http://www.optimalsapblog.blog-city.com] provides a pretty insightful perspective on what SAP's aggressive midmarket push might mean for SAP consultants:SAP Consultants - The Midmarket FactorSAP's...
- Tags: Operational planning, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SMB/SME, Enterprise software, SAP AG, SAP BBD
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- SAP's Business ByDesign go to market
- One of the niggling questions about SAP's Business ByDesign is just how the heck it is going to reach the numbers it says it wants to achieve. 10,000 new customers a year by 2010, many coming from this market, is ambitious. To date, SAP has been fuzzy about how that...
- Tags: SAP AG, Steve Mann, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Frame Relay, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Management, Sales, Networking, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- SAP's 100,000 customers by 2010: 'aspirational'
- During the launch of Business ByDesign, SAP said that it expects to achieve a run rate of adding 10,000 BBD customers a year by 2010. This raised questions about whether SAP will reach its previously stated target of 100,000 customers by 2010. I was concerned because it was always my...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Smb/Sme, Web Technology, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Sales, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- SAP's slow hand A1S play
- SAP's slow hand A1S playBusiness One is eating Microsoft's lunch AND dinner.It' will be exciting to watch A1S take all the food out of Microsofts ERP pantry!RE: SAP's slow hand A1S playNo customization = no customers. They are crazy -- and clueless -- if they think they are going to...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft ERP, SAP A1S, A1S play, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., ERP
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
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