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

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

Virtualization 2.0 panel recording from NGDC is available

Back in August, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Next Generation Data Center Conference, entitled "Virtualization 2.0".The panel included Albert Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director of xkoto, Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, Jonah Paransky, Marketing VP of StackSafe and Lawrence Stein, Engineering VP of...

Tags: Panel, StackSafe, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Desktone "Desktops as a Service"

I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...

Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-09

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Cisco SONA

Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...

Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-08

News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework

Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homeworkVista needs a better UIBut I wouldn't know that personally as I have never used it and instead relied on the anecdotes of others (well I have fiddled with it in stores and found it was very different yet had no compelling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework

Considering my background, it's not at all hard to understand how I've become the tech support helpdesk for family, friends and the neighborhood as a whole. I've done my best to accept my lot in life with grace and courage. This time, my Grandson, Steven, was trying to complete a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft PowerPoint, Laptop Computer, Steven, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Why bother with desktop virtualization?

Why bother with desktop virtualization?PortabilityNo matter where you are, there you are.Sit down at a workstation and light up your working environment. No need to drag the hardware with you, which ranges from annoying to hazardous, what with laptops being popular targets for confiscation at airports. Especially since...

Tags: desktop virtualization, desktop, English Language, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-10-06