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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'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
- SAP's A1S pricing is the key
- As Salesforce rebrands Apex and consolidates a bunch of other stuff to Force.com, SAP is gearing up for its A1S global launch here in New York tomorrow. A1S is SAPs much anticipated saas offering for ERP applications. There are a number of key questions. At present, price is exercising the...
- Tags: SAP AG, Pricing Strategy, A1S, Roi/Tco, Smb/Sme, Sales Force Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags
- Workday unveils Financials and Work TagsAre there any writers on staff?"The sales pitch from Workday, which was co-founded by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield his former vice chairman Aneel Bhusri following the contentious acquisition of the PeopleSoft by Oracle, sounds similar to what SAP is saying about its mid-market A1S product...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Workday, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- 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
- C'mon Microsoft, don't be shy
- I disagree with my colleague Josh Greenbaum on several aspects of his analysis of the SAP/Oracle/Microsoft position and specifically around Microsoft. Relegating Microsoft to an also ran position doesn't fit with how I perceive Microsoft Dynamics. Josh asserts:Two data points versus the plethora of filings and comprehensive analyses that Oracle...
- Tags: Enterprise applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite's IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software
- A response from SAP in the Oracle vs. SAP lawsuit and NetSuite files for an IPO. Two seemingly disconnected events trickled down through the technosphere during 4th of July week, and, having been blissfully disconnected myself for much of the week, I came back with a mission to try to...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- ZDNet's first MonkCast: Will SAP's A1S service disrupt its on-premises A1?
- In what I hope will be a regularly recurring podcast here on ZDNet, we've launched our first "MonkCast." On a periodic basis weekly is the goal, I'll be interviewing James Governor, principal analyst and co-founder of the research outfit Redmonk see his blog and his fellow researchers at Redmonk...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Matters Podcast, MonkCast Podcast, Open Source, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- News to know: Ubuntu Server; WinHEC; Windows Home Server; Linus Torvalds
- Notable headlines:Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: LAMP On Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Server Edition. Gallery right. Will Dell stuff Ubuntu PCs full of craplets?Mary Jo Foley: At WinHEC the future is off limits for Microsoft. Microsoft attempts to rally more hardware vendors around Rally.Ed Bott: On the road with Vista.InformationWeek: Linus Torvalds Responds...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- 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
- News to know: Q&A with Macbook hacker; Virgin IT; iPhone; Microsoft's Volta; Google Apps
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Virgin Americas CIO gets IT greenfield. Gallery: Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release.Ryan Naraine: 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi. QuickTime bug brought down MacBook. Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vistas UAC.Mary Jo Foley: Volta: Microsofts dev platform in the Cloud?Infoworld: AT&T...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- SAP aims A1S on demand solution for 2008
- SAPs been working three years on developing a new business application suite and business model. Code-named A1S, the suite is aimed at the lower end of the mid-sized company segment, which is comprised of about 1 million companies. Its part of SAPs goal to grow from 39,000 customers to 100,000...
- Tags: SAP, General, ERP
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- NetSuite CEO on installing new releases, SAP and IPOs
- Salesforce.com typically rolls out a new version of its software all at once. On Friday night Salesforce.com had a planned outage to roll out its "Spring 07 pre-release work." ...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise software, IPO, NetSuite Inc., Nelson, SAP AG, ERP, software
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Into the SMB Breach -- This Time with Feeling
- It seems that everyone in the enterprise software market is after the great untapped riches that are allegedly there for the taking in the so-called mid-market. SAP, trying to put some luster on a bad quarter, announced its new A1S mid-market program just recently, with some fabulous goals in mind,...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
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