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Shai Agassi trades SOA for electric cars

Former SAP executive, Shai Agassi has resurfaced as a potential 21st century day Henry Ford, but with a green intent. He is moving from ERP and SOA to electric cars with his for-profit Project Better Place. And, he has raised more that $200 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners, Israel Corporation,...

Tags: Car, SOA, Shai Agassi, Project Better Place, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Shai Agassi: Jobless and blogging

After leaving leaving SAP abruptly last month, deciding not to wait many more years before taking on the reins of the company, Shai Agassi has not taken refuge in a cave or disappeared into the Silicon Valley void--he is blogging and plans to focus on climate change and green technologies....

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, IT Management, General, ERP, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-04-12

SAP going after mid-market with new ERP suite

During his keynote at SAPs fourth annual analyst summit, Products & Technology Group President Shai Agassi shed some light on the companys strategy for addressing the mid-market, firms with $100 to $200 million in revenue and 100 to 2499 employees. In mid-2007, the company is expected to release a new...

Tags: Shai Agassi, SAP AG, Web Technology, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2006-12-04

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's Shai Agassi: Rewriting the book on business software

Shai Agassi, president of SAP's Product and Technology Group, came to our CNET offices last week to meet with News.com reporters and myself. For the last few years Agassi, and his army of 12,000 developers, has been engineering a complete overhaul of SAP's ERP applications and creating NetWeaver, a service-oriented...

Tags: SAP AG, Shai Agassi

Blog posts 2006-09-10

SAP's recipe for staying on top

SAP CEO Henning Kagermann laid out his company’s long term strategy this morning at an event for developers this morning. With an addressable market of $70 billion in 2010, SAP hopes to have 50 percent of its revenues from new products, 100,000 customers (up from 32,000 today) and 40 to...

Tags: SAP AG, Henning Kagermann

Blog posts 2006-04-06

No trash talking from SAP's Agassi

SAP executive board member and product & technology head Shai Agassi gave the NetWeaver pitch to the Software 2006 crowd this morning, and dropped some hints about solutions for small business that he said could be set up in one minute. Agassi was quick to point out the SAP's...

Tags: SAP AG, Shai Agassi

Blog posts 2006-04-05

SAP rolls out 'hybrid' CRM

SAP rolled out today its CRM on-demand application, focusing on large and mid-sized companies, for managing sales, service and marketing. The company calls it 'hyrbid' CRM, with subscription-based licensing. SAP's approach involves both more sophisticated traditional and the more fleet hosted services, bridging between on demand and on premise. SAP...

Tags: SAP AG, CRM

Blog posts 2006-02-02

SAP's Agassi explains his open source stance

SAP's Shai Agassi has been taking heat from the press and blogosphere over his comments on open source made during his interview (you can listen to the podcast here--the open source section starts at 35:34) with New York Times reporter John Markoff at a Churchill Club event on Tuesday. He...

Tags: SAP AG, Shai Agassi

Blog posts 2005-11-11

SAP's Shai Agassi on Oracle's 'folly' and the shift to services

Shai Agassi, president of the Product and Technology Group and a member of the Executive Board at SAP AG, fielded questions from New York Times tech reporter John Markoff and the audience during an early morning Churchill Club event on Wednesday. We have a podcast of the interview, as well...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Problem, Customer, SAP AG, Shai Agassi, Oracle Shareholder, Podcasts, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Middleware, Internet, Business Operations, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2005-11-10

SAP's Shai Agassi: Unplugged

Following an interview with New York Times tech reporter John Markoff at a Churchill Club event, I sat down with Shai Agassi, SAP president of the Product and Technology Group and a member of the Executive Board for a podcast. In this interview, I ask him about SAP's roll out...

Tags: SAP AG, podcast, Shai Agassi

Blog posts 2005-11-10

Additional Resources

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

News to know: Microsoft 'Tahiti'; Intel vs. AMD; Skype beta; SAP exec leaves

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft readies new Tahiti collaboration service. Microsoft fills in its System Center roadmap.Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders. Techmeme discussion.David Berlind: After slamming Intel for using retired benchmarks, AMD does the same thing in China.Garett Rogers: Google Notebook leaves beta, gets new interface. Ground-level...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Corp., Skype Beta, Skype Technologies S.A., Intel Corp., SAP AG

Blog posts 2007-03-29

What's up with SAP's 'game-changing' A1S

SAP has been talking up its forthcoming solution for the mid-market, A1S, that will help the company grow from around 40,000 customers to 100,000 by 2010. According to Shai Agassi, president of SAP's Products & Technology Group, the goal of new suite is to dramatically reduce the tax across technology,...

Tags: Game, SAP A1S, SAP AG, Wrap, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-01-31

Reuse, redundancy and the chasm 2.0

Reuse has been a constant and yet elusive goal throughout the history of software. Today its a key part of the argument for adopting SOA, SaaS and Web 2.0. But I have a feeling that people approach it with one of two contrasting mindsets, only one of which is destined...

Tags: SAP, Salesforce.com, Ecosystems, Web 2.0, Marketplaces, Development, mindset

Blog posts 2007-01-16

SAP promises to deliver 'Big SOA' -- then what?

ZDNet blogging colleague Dan Farber recently spoke with Shai Agassi, president of SAPs product and technology group, about SAPs emerging SOA strategy, who promised that SAP would be leading the enterprise SOA market by the end of 2007. SAP will be able to move thousands of customers to...

Tags: SOA, SAP AG, Vendor Watch, General

Blog posts 2006-12-06

What's next for SAP?

"This is a transition period for technology"Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, talks with ZDNet editor in chief Dan Farber about competing with Oracle and how SAP will reach the next level of innovation.

Tags: SAP AG

Videos 2006-09-08

What does SAP have to say about Oracle?

SAP on competing with OracleShai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, speaks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about SAP's competition with Oracle and what separates the two companies.

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG

Videos 2006-09-08

What lies ahead for SAP

SAP: SOA isn't 'just a cool XML technology'Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, speaks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about the next level of innovation for the company and why he thinks it's ahead of the game.

Tags: SAP AG

Videos 2006-09-08

Shai Agassi--leading a new strategy for SAP

Shai Agassi--leading a new strategy for SAPShai Agassi, executive board member and chief technologist for SAP talks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his new role and company strategy in this exclusive Face to Face interview.

Tags: Shai Agassi, SAP AG, strategy

Videos 2003-03-14