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- Welcome to the party, SAP
- As the minutes tick away to the launch of SAP's long-awaited hosted ERP system for the midmarket, hitherto codenamed A1S, my inbox has been filling up with emails from incumbent SaaS vendors, eager to pitch in with their own reactions to what they expect SAP to announce. Trouble is, they...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- SAP's A1S: love, not pricing, is key
- SAP's announcement of A1S, it's software as a service SaaS product for small business, will take place tomorrow in New York City. Speculation is running high whether this product will succeed or fail, and the impact A1S will have on SAP as a whole. On the stock...
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Can SAP learn to speak SME with A1S?
- SAP faces tough challenges as it prepares for the September 19 launch of A1S, code name for the company's new small business offering, to be delivered in the form of software as a service SaaS. A1S represents SAP's hope to expand into the important small and medium enterprise SME market....
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best
- It's going to a hard week for Salesforce.com and Marc Benioff. If the Wall St. Journal's scoop is true (probably is, chances are it was "leaked" to the Journal by Salesforce itself), then whatever thunder Marc was hoping to gather by making his usual blockbuster announcement ("the single most exciting...
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Software business model challenged by SaaS, says Plattner
- Remarks by SAP chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner last week caused a bit of a kerfuffle back at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.Speaking last Tuesday at his own Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Plattner pictured said that "delivering software over the Internet would present a critical challenge to traditional business...
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
Additional Resources
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.com
- SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.comByDesign Brings Competition for the First Time to SaaSAs I've been saying, the real news behind ByDesign is it brings competition to SaaS for the first time:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/saps-a1s-brings-competition-to-saas-for-the-first-time/This is a good thing for the market. Choices will only accelerate adoption.RE: SAP's challenge to NetSuite,...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Ellison: Where's the big money in SaaS?
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says software as a service and the small business markets are interesting, but not terribly profitable. In other words, Ellison largely dismissed SAP's Business ByDesign. But the dismissal isn't exactly what it seems. Ellison was speaking for Oracle and for the company a move downmarket...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
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