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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
Strong sales focus as SAP shuffles the board: Following today's announcement of board changes at SAP, it is clear the company is looking to strengthen sales representation. As I suggested earlier Henning Kagermann will retire next May handing over the CEO's spot to Leo Apotheker. He will be supported by Bill McDermott who now has a global sales...; Tags: Board, Peter Zencke, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Governance, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-02
SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign: SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesigniKnowWare enables SaaS personalization PLUS VIDEOStarting in 2002 iKnowWare was well on its way empowering SMB's to connect each business touchpoint in their language. Not changing the way you do business but powering you to do business your way. Personalization increases adoption and...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Corporate communications, iKnowWare, SAP AG, Peter Zencke; Discussion threads 2007-10-03
SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign: Peter Zencke, a member of SAP's Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...; Tags: Tenant, mySAP, Database, Peter Zencke, Customer, SAP AG, Automation, Business ByDesign, DF, PZ, Storage, AJAX, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-02

SAP's parallel approaches to ERP: During his presentation at SAP TechEd '07, Peter Zencke, a member of SAP's Executive Board and head of R&D, made it clear to the 6,000 SAP developers in attendance that the forthcoming Business ByDesign ERP suite for the mid-market is technological milestone for the company. "We put everything into one,...; Tags: Business Process, SAP NetWeaver, Peter Zencke, SAP AG, ERP, Business ByDesign, Business Process Platform, Operational Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-02

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EU has privacy concerns over Street View: The EU is not too happy with the upcoming launch of Google Maps' Street View in Europe. The problem: privacy. The AP quotes the EU's top data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this," Hustinx told...; Tags: Google Inc., Data Protection, Privacy, European Union, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge: In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...; Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
UC Law bans classroom web access: I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...; Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-14
European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?: European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?Saasu.com | online accountingHey Dennis, you mentioned plenty of the new guys but not many of who have been delivering soundly and educating the market for years. Saasu.com now has thousands of users including some in the US and at a better price point...; Tags: on-demand accounting company, accounting company, dam, on-demand; Discussion threads 2008-05-14
A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?: A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?Was semantic web designed by amateurs?My take is that 'semantic web' is implicit in the journalist's reference to 'professionals' and his phrasing is simply saying that Web 3.0 adds expertise to structure the chaos of Web 2.0. I'm not too keen on the way...; Tags: Channel management, Semantic Web, Web, Web 3.0, Web 2.0; Discussion threads 2008-05-14
A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?: Writing in today's Financial Times, Digital Business supplement editor Peter Whitehead offers a different interpretation on Web 3.0 to that which readers of this blog might be used... "Web 2.0 is a world in which anyone can have a go at generating content; Web 3.0...; Tags: Web, Web 3.0, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Photos: Microsoft previews 2008 Xbox games: Microsoft's Spring Showcase shows off some of its forthcoming 2008 title releases to journalists in San Francisco.Microsoft took over Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for the Showcase event. The company set up stations around the studio to show off games like Too Human, Ninja Gaiden, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and...; Tags: Journalist, San Francisco, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Xbox, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-13
Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?: Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-13
JavaOne '08: Inside enterprise 2.0: Oracle demos a new enterprise 2.0 application at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Oracle executives Thomas Kurian and Peter Moskowitz show how Java changes an order entry application into a collaborative Web 2.0 environment.; Tags: Oracle, Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, JavaOne; Videos 2008-05-08
Peter Mika offers bananas at Yahoo! Research: Yahoo! are certainly being a lot more open than competitors such as Google and Microsoft when it comes to talking about their use of semantic technologies. They've been active for several years in recruiting stalwarts of the Semantic Web community such as Dave Beckett, and there is a long tradition...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-08
How much are your friends worth?: News Corp. revealed yesterday that its new media subsidiary Fox Interactive Media FIM has missed this year's revenue target of $1bn by 10 per cent. FIM's portfolio is dominated by MySpace which accounts for the majority of its revenue, bringing into question once again the ability to monetize the huge...; Tags: Advertisement, Google AdWords, News Corp., MySpace, Advertiser, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless: News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...; Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-08
SynapSense gets a grip on your data center's environmental profile: I was invited by a local hosting provider to give a presentation last Friday about green data centers. As I was gathering the data to illustrate some of the trends I wanted to highlight, I was astonished to discover that very few companies apparently measure their server power consumption very...; Tags: Data Center, Server, Wireless, SynapSense, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-07
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