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Software business model challenged by SaaS, says Plattner

Remarks by SAP chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner last week caused a bit of a kerfuffle back at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.Speaking last Tuesday at his own Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Plattner pictured said that "delivering software over the Internet would present a critical challenge to traditional business...

Tags: SAP, ERP, Business models

Blog posts 2007-07-04

SAP navigating through paradigm shifts

Co-founder Hasso Plattner discusses R&D challengesAt Software 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif., SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner talks to program host M.R. Rangaswami about Wall Street's unfavorable reaction to the company's $300 million-plus investment in next-generation software. Plattner also discusses his "minimalist" approach to application design.

Tags: Hasso Plattner, SAP AG

Videos 2007-05-09

Hasso Plattner's design philosophy: No 'artsy fartsy'

Hasso Plattner's design philosophy: No 'artsy fartsy'What? Bad to say about Apple design?Wow - I never thought a "design guru" would say something bad about Apple. I think their hardware design is elegant, but their OS is too artsy fartsy. Just surprised to see a design person...

Tags: Platter, Hasso Plattner

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Hasso Plattner's design philosophy: No 'artsy fartsy'

Hasso Plattner, SAP co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board, has a strong affinity for design. He donated $35 million to fund a new design school at Stanford University, and has been teaching at the school in Palo Alto, CA. When asked during a keynote at Software 2007 about his...

Tags: SAP, General

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Hasso Plattner outlines SAP's software vision

Hasso Plattner outlines SAP's software visionGood PostI always appreciate the even handed style of your writing, as evidenced in today's post.I am glad to hear that SAP is getting into the game of SaaS. With NetSuite - we are channel partners - and Workday already up and running, it is...

Tags: Call centers, software vision, SAP AG, Hasso Plattner, vision, software

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

Hasso Plattner outlines SAP's software vision

Over 35 years since co-founding SAP, Hasso Plattner has been seeking to transform business software. Speaking at SAP annual Sapphire conference in Atlanta, Plattner gave a seminar on next-generation software, in which he detailed many of the main principles behind the companys next-generation product A1S business suite, without mentioning the...

Tags: IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Hasso Plattner's new role at SAP

Hasso Plattner's new role at SAPAt the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2003 in San Diego, Gartner analysts interview SAP's Hasso Plattner on his new job responsibilities and what it will mean for the company's future.

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Hasso Plattner, SAP AG

Videos 2003-03-26

Additional Resources

Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts

Hasso's Plattner's vision is Driven to PerformHello Oliver,An excellent post, as usual. You mention in that:"Plattner envisages a future world where executives sit in a business ?cockpit? combining the human-to-human communication strengths of Cisco?s Telepresence with sophisticated contextual data dialed up on the fly in a much more agile...

Tags: Strategy, Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts, Plattner, vision

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

News to know: Apple; FCC; Azure; Enterprise 2.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Apple: 'Continues to study' Google Voice apps; AT&T: We played no part TechCrunch: The Truth: What's Really...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Federal Government, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts

The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and automating the planning and tracking of financial transactions from end to end...

Tags: SAP AG, Corporate Communications, Corporate Governance, Storage, Mainframes, Internet, Databases, Servers, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-23

SAP keynote: Leo Apotheker's appeal for clarity

Leo Apotheker, co-CEO at SAP has just concluded his keynote speech with a call for 'clarity' in enterprises of all sizes. "The past 10 months have indeed been a turning point for all of us...it is time for clarity...time to be clear...We all face a new reality and it's not...

Tags: Software, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-12

SAP: Claus Heinrich resigns from executive board

In an email sent to all SAP employees today, Claus Heinrich announced that he intends to resign from the company on 31st May, 2009 the same date when co-CEO Henning Kagermann intends to leave the company. Heinrich's reasons for leaving are not entirely clear though he says...

Tags: Board, SAP AG, Heinrich, Labor Relations, Corporate Governance, E-mail, Web Site Development, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Internet, Workforce Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict

I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...

Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-07

SAP Business By Design likely to be delayed

Sketchy reports coming out of Germany are saying that SAP's Business By Design is likely to be delayed. According to Handelsblatt: An SAP developer speaking to Handelsblatt claimed in German that ByDesign was suffering from performance issues and bugs that would delay general availability until perhaps the end of...

Tags: SAP AG, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-28

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

Churchill Club: Benioff vs. Plattner (full version)

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com debates SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner on the future of enterprise software. We recapped the event, but there's the full audio. Speakers: Marc Benioff, ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Chairman, SAP AG, Podcasts, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Google and Salesforce.com: Why don't they merge?

The worst kept secret of the last week--Salesforce.com integrating Google Apps into its CRM applications and validating the search giant's Office killer is official--but in the grand scheme of things this partnership could be viewed as a precursor to future merger. The basic gist is this Techmeme:...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Debating the future of enterprise software

At a Churchill Club event at the Computer History Museum in San Jose on April 3, Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of SAP, and Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.com, debate the future of enterprise software. The debate is moderated by Quentin Hardy of Forbes.

Tags: Enterprise Computing

Videos 2008-04-11

WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent

In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...

Tags: Web, Agent, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-04

A SaaSy SAP vs. Salesforce debate: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner dueled at the Churchill Club in a debate about the future of software and the generation gap couldn't be larger. Benioff brought the bluster, portrayed SAP as a dinosaur and prodded his much larger rival to develop in...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, SAP AG, Updates, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-04