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		<title><![CDATA[Welcome to the party, SAP]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=385]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:01:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP's slow hand A1S play]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=172]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:19:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP's A1S: love, not pricing, is key]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=396]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:52:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP's A1S pricing is the key]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=170]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:24:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can SAP learn to speak SME with A1S?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=395]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:26:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=133]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:03:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Disrupting the business SAP style]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=144]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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 â€œrental modelsâ€ that resemble traditional leasing arrangements with customers. These models arenâ€™t new, but are rare today. Kagermann indicated that these software leasing models...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:58:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP CEO Henning Kagermann warms up for A1S launch]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6128]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:56:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Show me the Web 2.0 money]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=124]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:59:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Software business model challenged by SaaS, says Plattner]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=352]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:04:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP unveils Co-Innovation Lab and envisions Web 3.0]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5315]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:03:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Software 2007: SAP's new code]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5006]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 12:37:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4921]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:01:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP aims A1S on demand solution for 2008]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4903]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:33:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Has SAP converted to SaaS?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=304]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:22:40 -0700</pubDate>
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