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Is BBD hoist by SAP's on-premise petard?

On-premise vendors never have to run their own software*. This is by far the largest and least often anticipated handicap suffered by on-premise vendors when embarking on the on-demand model. [*OK, maybe some of them 'eat their own dogfood' by using it in-house. But they never really experience it as...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict

Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdictYou make some good pointsThere is much in BBD that could be delivered as a standard accounting package to replace those mid-tier accounting packages like Great Plains the functionality for basic accounting is already there. Your point about putting this into the market is a valid...

Tags: accounting, Irregular, Business ByDesign, accounting package

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

In search of Business ByDesign: The NetWeaver 7.1 connection

In search of Business ByDesign: The NetWeaver 7.1 connectionSaaS needs a 16:1 Operations Cost ReductionGreat post Larry, I wish I was there with you guys to hear from the horse's mouth.I've been writing for a long time that SaaS has a 16:1 operations cost advantage over conventional software. You...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, software-as-a-service, NetWeaver 7.1, Business ByDesign, SAP NetWeaver

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how'

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...

Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-28

SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?

SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?He's staying a bit longer than you might thinkZencke agreed to do a extra time through a consultancy. Plattner said Zencke's role is being re-distribute among the board.Consulting is what it isYou're right that Peter Zencke has agreed to stay on as...

Tags: Outsourcing, Zencke, Succession Plan, Business ByDesign, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

SAP's growth spurt: $6.8 billion for Business Objects

SAP took a page out of Oracle's grow-by-consolidation playbook in acquiring business intelligence leader Business Objects for $6.8 billion (42 Euros per share). SAP CEO Henning Kagermann positioned the acquisition as part of his company's strategy to rapidly grow its customer base. SAP wants to have 100,000 customers by 2010,...

Tags: Analytics, Business Objects, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Business Object Acquisition, Financial Planning, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-07

SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign

Peter Zencke, a member of SAP's Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...

Tags: Tenant, mySAP, Database, Peter Zencke, Customer, SAP AG, Automation, Business ByDesign, DF, PZ, Storage, AJAX, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-02

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,...

Tags: Business Process, SAP NetWeaver, Peter Zencke, SAP AG, ERP, Business ByDesign, Business Process Platform, Operational Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-02

SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.com

This week SAP finally introduced its on demand Business ByDesign suite, aimed at the mid-market (companies with 100 to 500 employees) and starting at $149 per per month per user but with a $54 a month option for a set of five users with limited usage of the software. ...

Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., NetSuite Inc., Customer, SAP AG, ERP, Workday, Business ByDesign, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Business ByDesign, SAP's slow-burning fuse

Business ByDesign, SAP's slow-burning fuseExcuse me?"But on the other hand, as Gavin Clarke of The Register commendably reminds us all, SAP only showed us some powerpoint slides and a very limited live demonstration last night"That is a disingenuous and, quite frankly a statement of the kind yo'd expect from a...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, slow-burning fuse, software-as-a-service, fuse

Discussion threads 2007-09-20

Business ByDesign, SAP's slow-burning fuse

Reading through the coverage of yesterday's Business ByDesign announcement, some contrasting impressions stand out. On the one hand, Zoli Erdos calls SAP's new SaaS offering "a game changer." I'm inclined to agree with him, personally. SAP is now backing SaaS, which is a huge validation — and...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-09-20

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...

Tags: Competitive Advantage, SAP AG, SOA, Business ByDesign, SaaS/OD, BBD, Market-leader, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Roi/Tco, Model-Driven Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2007-09-20

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 — formerly codenamed A1S — 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

Additional Resources

Twelve best practices for online customer communities

One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...

Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-25

What paper trail?

I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts

A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...

Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gateway stops selling PCs direct

Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...

Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

'Branded community' leads to trademark morass

After publishing a guest blog on enterprise communities, I received what appeared to be a cross between a sales pitch and cease-and-desist email from a branding business. How is this approach good branding? by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Community, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-25