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- SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007
- Following SAP CEO Henning Kagermann’s presentation at SAPs fourth annual analyst summit, Shai Agassi, president of the Product & Technology Group, laid out the companys technical vision. He believes that SAP is in position to lead the chasm-crossing from the client-server model to enterprise SOA, and become the dominant...
- Tags: Dan Farber, General, IT Management, SAP AG, Shai Agassi, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- SAP bets on enterprise SOA, but are customers ready?
- "It’s not necessary to buy companies to get growth,” said SAP CEO Henning Kagermann, speaking at the company’s fourth annual analyst summit. He was referring to rival Oracle’s approach to growth, spending more than $20 billion on acquisitions, and pointed to SAP’s 11 consecutive quarters of growth and market share...
- Tags: SOA, SAP AG, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- NetSuite launches SuiteFlex to build out verticals
- It’s been interesting to watch NetSuite and salesforce.com grow up over the last few years. The chief executives at the two companies, Zach Nelson and Marc Benioff, share a common heritage of cutting their teeth at Oracle, but have taken different approaches to spreading the SaaS, multitenancy gospel. Salesforce.com...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Apex signals a shift in the software landscape
- The software landscape is changing. PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is heading up Workday, which is a pure on demand, Web services enterprise software play, following salesforce.coms lead, due for official launch on November 6. He was in attendance at Salesforce.coms roll out yesterday of its latest edition and Apex programming...
- Tags: Apex, Salesforce.com Inc., Workday
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Inside the Salesforce Apex language
- Salesforce.coms Apex programming language has been hailed by some as a significant milestone in short history of Web on demand applications. But at this point it is still of form of vaporware that hasnt yet been unleashed on the 20,000 AppExchange developers. My colleague Steve Gillmor and I talked to...
- Tags: Apex, Parker Harris
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- AMR: SOA will kill ERP
- Bruce Richardson of AMR Research predicts the unthinkable: that "rapid adoption of SOA will lead to the end of the ERP market as we know it." "Here’s the doomsday scenario, circa 2010: SAP and Oracle customers have stopped buying applications from their ERP vendors. Instead, they contract with low-cost Indian...
- Tags: SOA, ERP
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Salesforce.com launches AppExchange OEM
- Salesforce.com continues to build out its application ecosystem with an OEM Edition of AppExchange. For $25 per user per month, developers can create and deliver on demand applications built on the Salesforce.com platform and infrastructure. The OEM Edition excludes Salesforce.com's CRM applications, and AppExchange OEM Edition developers are responsible for...
- Tags: Edition, Salesforce.com Inc., OEM
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- Why pay SAP for software you don't use?
- I took a lot of heat last week from SAP and its friends over my posting about The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seats. Seems like I struck a raw nerve when I wrote: "The dirty secret why SAP had to launch...
- Tags: SAP AG, CRM
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
- The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seats
- The dirty secret why SAP had to launch an on-demand CRM offering is that its on-premises product is too hard to implement, reveals SearchSAP.com: "SAP customers couldn't get mySAP CRM up and running quickly, said...
- Tags: SAP AG, CRM
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Rearden would rather buy Google
- AMR's Bruce Richardson has garnered attention with his speculation that "Google should buy Rearden Commerce." I'm not surprised to learn that Rearden's CEO and founder, Patrick Grady, "laughed" when Richardson called to ask his opinion. I met Grady last week, and his ambitions for Rearden are to rival Google in...
- Tags: Rearden Commerce
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
- Analyst thinks Google should buy Rearden Commerce
- In his latest "Alert Highlight," it might as well be called a blog, AMR’s Bruce Richardson muses over the "Google Economy," a subject not suffering from any lack of coverage these days. His final of five points stood out and deserves some attention:No. 5: Google should buy Rearden CommerceWhy...
- Tags: AMR&rsquo, s Bruce Richardson, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-10-28
- Apple's predatory supply chain
- AMR Research’s Bruce Richardson writes about what he calls "predatory supply chains," situations where manufacturers through exclusive contracts monopolize key inputs leaving competitors high and dry, especially in new growth markets. Richardson introduces the idea with Apple's iPod. He points out the recent wave of reports about Samsung's local competitors...
- Tags: Bruce Richardson, Apple Computer Inc., predatory supply chain
- Blog posts 2005-10-24
- Analysts deliberate latest merger wave
- So you've had your fill of spin on the latest round of tech mergers, but throwing into the mix some independent analyst perspectives on the Oracle/Siebel and eBay/Skype deals couldn't hurt. Oracle/SiebelNucleus Research gives Oracle high marks for its acquisition of Siebel, saying that the combination of each vendor's technologies...
- Tags: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-13
- CRM mashup
- I spent the morning at the salesforce.com event, but much of the discussion in the hallways was about the implications of Siebel getting acquired by Oracle. Ray Wong, senior analyst at Forrester, categorized the acquisition as a battle about IT spending consolidation. Best of breed isn't where the action is...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Salesforce.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-09-12
- Search for top Gartner alternative comes up empty handed
- Tekrati is addressing the debate over which industry analyst firm is the best alternative to Gartner, now that Gartner’s acquisition of Meta Group is history. Tekrati hand-picked what they consider are seven top choices in North America--Forrester Research, IDC and AMR Research, Burton Group, Info-Tech Research Group, The 451...
- Tags: META Group Inc., clientS, Burton Group
- Blog posts 2005-08-15
- Perceptions of industry analyst firms vary between end users and vendors
- Azul Partners recently surveyed 40 end-users and 40 vendors to determine what the perceptions are of industry analyst firms Aberdeen Group, AMR Research, ARC Advisory Group, Butler Group, Forrester Research, Gartner, and Yankee Group. Here are the key findings:Aberdeen Group ranks as both the most insightful and valuable firm...
- Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., AMR Research, Gartner Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-06-14
- Addressing the sad state of corporate innovation
- A look at vendor marketing literature shows that many tout their commitment to innovation, but at the end day, usually have nothing to show for it. According to AMR Research, the Boston Consulting Group identified this paradox as a "serious mismatch between what companies are telling their shareholders, employees,...
- Tags: innovation
- Blog posts 2005-05-06
- Best take(s) on Adobe-Macromedia deal
- Now that everyone has thrown in their two-cents, I thought I’d pull together some viewpoints on the Adobe-Macromedia acquisition. By far, Daring Fireball has the most entertaining yet realistic take in its "translating PR-speak to English" post. (This seems to be an activity catching on as a favorite past-time...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-04-22
- Experts sound off on Siebel's CEO switch
- Siebel's announcement that it replaced CEO Mike Lawrie with George Shaheen has been met with considerable criticism from customers, investors, and experts. While Gartner says bringing on Shaheen is a good move, AMR Research shows a strong view to the contrary, saying that the abrupt firing will have a negative...
- Tags: Mike Lawrie, George Shaheen, Siebel Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-04-15
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