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Disrupting the business SAP style

Larry Dignan has the latest update in the never-ending A1S saga but leaves some lingering questions: In the mid-market there will likely be “rental models” that resemble traditional leasing arrangements with customers. These models aren’t new, but are rare today. Kagermann indicated that these software leasing models...

Tags: Financial Service, SAP AG, Leasing, A1S Kagermann, Larry, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-06

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SAP Business ByDesign: will it reduce project failures?

SAP's new Business ByDesign (formerly called A1S) software as a service SaaS offering represents a substantial departure from previous SAP products. What are the implications of Business ByDesign on deployment and implementation; in other words, will this new product reduce implementation failures? To answer this question,...

Tags: SAP AG, Pricing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Marketing Research, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-19

SAP gets SaaS: can it run with it?

When talking to software vendors about SaaS, my mantra is that SaaS is a journey. Having seen SAP unveil its Business ByDesign product today â€" formerly codenamed A1S â€" I have to say it is on the right road and it has hit the tarmac at an impressive pace. There...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-09-19

SAP rolls out SAP Business ByDesign

SAP rolled out SAP Business ByDesign, the software formerly known as A1S, Wednesday. The on-demand application targets the midmarket. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann introduced the product and outlined the software's live products at an event in New York. "It's a new interface for us. We enter a...

Tags: Application, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-19

SAP's slow hand A1S play

Late yesterday, Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP hosted Zoli Erdos, James Governor, Prashanth Rai, Charlie Wood, Jason Wood and myself for a pre-launch discussion about A1S. During the meeting, Kagermann emphasized the company's cautious approach to the SaaS market. On the one hand, SAP is readying itself for a volume...

Tags: Transformation, SAP AG, A1S, Zoli, Roi/Tco, Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Outsourcing, Web 2.0, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Emerging Technologies, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-19

Oracle's quarter to reveal enterprise software health

Oracle reports its fiscal first quarter results Thursday and the earnings and the ensuing conference call will answer a few lingering questions in enterprise software. Question 1: Has a slowdown among financial services firms hit the software demand picture yet? Tibco, a company that depends on financial customers,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., SAP AG, Health Care, Applications Business, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-19

SAP CEO Henning Kagermann warms up for A1S launch

SAP CEO Henning Kagermann did one of his last warm-ups before the company rolls out its A1S midmarket suite on Sept. 19. Speaking at the Citigroup 14th Annual Technology Conference, Kagermann didn't break a lot of new ground, but did note some interesting developments for software licensing. He...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Leasing, A1S, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Show me the Web 2.0 money

In all the hoopla around Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 applications and services I'm left with an uncomfortable question. Where's the money for the application creator? mySQL has only just broken even after years of pioneering open source with only 1:1,000 downloads leading to any revenue for mySQL. Zoho Office on Facebook is getting...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-14

Chewing on software and service pricing

One of the perennial discussion points among my colleagues is business software pricing and its relationship to services. This topic is problematic at all sorts of levels. We're seeing on-demand/saas putting pressure on both incumbent on-premise vendor pricing and within the on-demand world. Deep discounting is rife among enterprise vendors...

Tags: implementation, Enterprise applications

Blog posts 2007-07-17

SAP unveils Co-Innovation Lab and envisions Web 3.0

SAP held a dog and pony show, including a ribbon cutting ceremony, for the unveiling of it new Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto. "The intention is this is to be a working lab, not just a slick showcase for customers," said Zia Yusef, executive vice president of the Global Ecosystem...

Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, SAP, SaaS, IT Management, General, ERP, Enterprise 2.0, Datacenter

Blog posts 2007-06-07

SAP's A1S still shrouded in the mists

Guest post: AccMan blogger and deep thinker on enterprise software Dennis Howlett, along with some of the other Enterprise Irregulars, is in Vienna for SAP's Euro Sapphire conference. It covers the same material as Sapphire Atlanta, which Dennis attended and took place last month. Similar to the Atlanta conference, the...

Tags: ERP, Enterprise 2.0, General, IT Management, SaaS, SAP, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Oracle blogs--an attention free zone

Guest Post: My fellow Enterprise Irregular, drama critic of the enterprise software industry, advisor to the software developers and marketers and inveterate blogger Dennis Howlett responds to a post by Oracle Technology Networks editor-in-chief complaining that his company doesnt get enough love from the blogosphere crowd. Justin Kestelyn, Oracle Technology...

Tags: SAP, Oracle, General, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-04-30

SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader

SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle, NetSuite, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Shai Agassi out at SAP

SAP said Shai Agassi is stepping down as head of the companys product and technology group. Agassis departure was by "mutual agreement with the company."Agassi is leaving to focus on alternative energy and climate change. He was one of the front runners to replace CEO Henning Kagermann. The Wall Street...

Tags: Web services, SAP AG, Shai Agassi, Agassis, Agassis departure

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Has SAP converted to SaaS?

The consensus appears to be that Nick Carr was premature in outing SAP CEO Henning Kagermann as a true SaaS believer. As Dan Farber reported on Monday, our colleagues in the Enterprise Irregulars group picked over the evidence and found it far from convincing. Not least the fact that Kagermann...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP AG, software-as-a-service, A1S, Henning Kagermann

Blog posts 2007-03-21

Parsing SAP's quest to add 60,000 customers by 2010

Nick Carr stirred up the Enterprise Irregulars with his post on SAP and SaaS over the weekend. It spurred a lot of discussion about just how serious SAP is about the on demand, software-as-a-service model and how the new SAP A1S solution, which is due around year end, fits into...

Tags: SMB/SME, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP AG, All-in-One

Blog posts 2007-03-19

What's up with SAP's 'game-changing' A1S

SAP has been talking up its forthcoming solution for the mid-market, A1S, that will help the company grow from around 40,000 customers to 100,000 by 2010. According to Shai Agassi, president of SAP's Products & Technology Group, the goal of new suite is to dramatically reduce the tax across technology,...

Tags: Game, SAP A1S, SAP AG, Wrap, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-01-31