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Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?

As the soap opera that is SAP Business ByDesign rumbles on, I can't help but think of the opening lines in Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, ByD, Zinow, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Servers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-20

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...

Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Chinese electric car maker thinks green and Go America

We've read about many Chinese manufacturers cutting back, laying off, feeling the pinch of reduced consumption in the U.S. Bucking the general trend: BYD. They are a Chinese car maker and plan to introduce their plug-in electric car in the U.S. in 2011. Of course, one of...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, BYD, F3DM, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Electric cars level automaker playing field

Chinese electric-hybrid maker BYD is ready to compete on the auto industry's newly level playing field. by Richard Koman

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Automobile Company, Battery, General Motors Corp., BYD, Engineering, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-12

Additional Resources

VCs find living dinosaurs...in Detroit

Despite the billions in loans and bailouts and the much abllyhooed re-org of Chrysler and GM, some prominent Silicon Valley investment leaders find Detroit's auto industry hopeless and heedless of the needed innovation. They see a new American auto industry far away in miles and mentality from Detroit once-bug-three....

Tags: Detroit, Plug-in, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-18

Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?

Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?Bull...Talk about stretching the truth... I have never seen so poor a representation of numbers than this...A very poor shot, if can't do an accurate comparisson, just spin things out and lie.I'm an ex SAP and ex Oracle customer and there is a...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise software, SAP AG, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?No supriseDennis,Early last summer I commented re BYD on your other blog:"I wonder if they are having trouble with the user interface?...It may be that that the time and cost of making SAP more user-friendly and flexible is making them think again about the...

Tags: SAP AG, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

In search of SAP Business ByDesign

Mike Krigsman has a post that seeks to put ByDesign into a hopeful light. Based on his conversations I'm not surprised he came away with a glowing customer report. Customers I've spoken with have been rightfully delighted with what SAP is offering and the roadmap they're presenting. As...

Tags: SAP AG, Mike Krigsman, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Data Centers, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Cloudforce London preview: CODA2Go

Salesforce.com's Cloudforce comes to London tomorrow morning. One of the key announcements will be a new version of CODA2Go, veteran accounting software developer CODA's on-demand ledger suite. Two years in the making, CODA2Go demonstrates what's possible when the bulk of the 'plumbing' is already done. Tomorrow,...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Accounting, Marketing, CODA2Go, CODA, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Obama visits electric car center in L.A.

I blogged earlier this week about China's plug-in car, already in mass production at a sales price of about $20K each. The Chinese electric carmaker, BYD, hopes to sell about 350,000 this year. All in China. President Obama and Southern California Edison SCE...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Barack Obama, Battery, Plug-in, Southern California Edison, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-20

SAP Makes A Dramatic Move: Ex-Oracle Exec John Wookey To Head up SAP’s New On-demand Market Effort

SAP Makes A Dramatic Move: Ex-Oracle Exec John Wookey To Head up SAP’s New On-demand Market EffortNot going to be easyIt is not easy, and many companies have already failed trying, to rearchitect a legacy software company and its technology for on demand. He will need to overcome organizational issues,...

Tags: Sales force management, Sales strategy, cloud computing, on-demand, Dramatic Move, Ex-Oracle, Head Up, John Wookey, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

Ticking bombs in enterprise land

I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna  where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...

Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-07