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- Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?
- Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?Scalability vs. MultitenancyIt appears that from the Forrester perspective that scalability = multitenancy. Wondering if this is the case? While multitenancy would probably help with the "ease" of scalability, can single tenant applications scale?
- Tags: scalability, Business ByDesign
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- SAP Business ByDesign Update
- Staying the Restrained Course Fellow ZDNet blogger, Dennis Howlett, and I were treated to a briefing by Jeff Stiles of SAP yesterday. The subject was SAP’s Business ByDesign product line. Business ByDesign is SAP’s software as a service SaaS or on-demand offering for the SMB marketplace. ...
- Tags: SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Smb/Sme, Product Development, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Marketing Research, Research & Development, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- 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 â€" 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 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
Additional Resources
- Epicor Perspectives: the analyst view
- A thousand customers and 1,500 total attendees may be 20% down on past years but represents a good effort by Epicor to get the faithful out to hear the latest and greatest when compared with other vendor led events where attendance has been down 30-40%. ...
- Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- SAP regaining its mojo?
- Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...
- Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- SaaS Customer Bill of Rights: right thing, right time
- AG Customer Bill of Rights - SaaS - Live I'm not pimping this because Ray Wang and I happen to be collaborators or that I got a credit in the Altimeter Group report but because Ray and Jeremiah Owyang's SaaS Customer Bill of Rights is the right thing at...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- NetSuite's Zach Nelson on competition, cost, the Next Big Thing
- Last week I met with Zach Nelson, CEO NetSuite in circumstances very similar to those when I recently met with SAP. There are obvious comparisons: SAP provided a hands on individual demonstration of Business ByDesign, NetSuite limited its demo to some pre-canned scenarios demonstrated by...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Smb/Sme, Branding, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
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