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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
- 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's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its BestAbsolutely Ridiculous - A1S = Way2LateThis advertisement for SAP is ridiculous in its lack of objectivity. Even people inside of SAP are not this bullish (i.e. are more balanced in their analysis) How many years has A1s been under...
- Tags: Sales force management, Strategy, product innovation, SAP AG, SAP A1S, Brinkmanship, Force.com, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- SHORT QUOTE: SAP is "liquid concrete"
- The Economist quotes fellow ZDNet blogger and Enterprise Irregular, Josh Greenbaum, on the subject of SAP's forthcoming software as a service SaaS product, known as A1S: A broader question is whether SAP can overcome its history. It grew up selling complicated software directly to big businesses. Now ...
- Tags: SAP AG, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- 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
- SAP's cautious Web 2.0 imagineering
- I met with Denis Browne, senior vice president of imagineering at SAP Labs. He isn't on loan from Disney, which came up with "imagineering" portmanteau in the 1950's. Browne is tasked with imagining, developing and evangelizing Web 2.0 innovations--social networks, widgets, RSS, blogs, wikis, SMS, virtual worlds, etc.--across various...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Web 2.0, Network, SAP AG, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- 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
- SAP beats Oracle? Oracle surrounding SAP? Microsoft raking in new customers?
- Who’s winning what and does anyone really care?SAP just turned in a great quarter, one that, according to my favorite financial analyst, Charlie di Bona, cemented his contention that “SAP continues to compete aggressively against ORCL in the applications market.†It also proves, di Bona, that SAP is growing twice...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Ellison: Oracle to continue acquisition binge
- Oracle had a good final quarter in it fiscal year, and a good year overall financially, fueled by several acquisitions. Q4 revenue grew by 23 percent and sales by 20 percent to $5.83 billion.The way CFO Safra Katz said the company is "humming on all cylinders" and has a big...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Oracle, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Nucleus Research: Oracle beats SAP among small, mid-sized enterprises
- A Nucleus Research report about how Oracle and SAP fare among small and mid-sized enterprises has sparked a dust-up between the two--again. In a survey, Nucleus Research finds that customers at smaller companies generally favor Oracle. The bottom line: Only 41 percent of SAP SMB customers interviewed got a positive...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Oracle, General, ERP
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- 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
- Software 2007: SAP's new code
- SAP co-founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board gave a reprise of his "New Idea" Sapphire presentation at Software 2007. The presentation covers many concepts see below, which I wrote about in this post from SAPs Sapphire conference in Atlanta last month, that underly SAPs new code base, code-named...
- Tags: SAP, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- 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
- 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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