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- SAP's Succession Debate: To Soon To Tell
- The enterprise software collective subconscious is working hard trying to figure out what will happen when SAPs top management faces some forthcoming deadlines about who is to succeed CEO Henning Kagermann in coming years. Sitting in a Berkeley coffee shop yesterday with two European business reporters, the Kagermann question came...
- Tags: Uncategorized, SAP AG, Henning Kagermann
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- 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
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- SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?
- SAP executed the beginning of a well-orchestrated and otherwise somewhat boring and boring is good management transition with the much-expected elevation of co-CEO Leo Apotheker to the more important title of heir-apparent. In the process, Henning Kagermann assumed the title of retiree-in-waiting, and all was good with the world. ...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Force Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- WSJ: SAP struggles with globalization
- A little more than a year ago I was discussing a story I wrote with SAP executives. They were peeved that I referred to SAP as a German company while failing to note the headquarters of a rival I mentioned. That sticking point--which was...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, SAP AG, globalization
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle, NetSuite, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- SAP under the microscope post Agassi
- The departure of SAPs Shai Agassi may not change much for the enterprise software companys daily operations, but the company is likely to be examined more closely now that its software architect is gone. On Wednesday, SAP announced that Agassi...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, SAP AG, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Shai Agassi out at SAP
- SAP said Shai Agassi is stepping down as head of the companys product and technology group. Agassis departure was by "mutual agreement with the company."Agassi is leaving to focus on alternative energy and climate change. He was one of the front runners to replace CEO Henning Kagermann. The Wall Street...
- Tags: Web services, SAP AG, Shai Agassi, Agassis, Agassis departure
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- SAP CEO Stays Put for the Right Reasons
- Its easy to ponder what a German supervisory board is thinking from several thousand miles away, and more than one of my fellow bloggers has speculated that Henning Kagermanns tenure was extended mostly because there was no one to succeed him. Thats kind of a "glass-half-empty" view of the situation,...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermann may name replacement soon
- The SAP CEO succession mystery may be coming to an end. The rumor is that current CEO Henning Kagermann, whos contract expires at the end of this year, will announce later this month his plan to vacate the position and announce a replacement. In fact, SAPs supervisory board is in...
- Tags: General, SAP, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- 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
- The Game of Leapfrog, SAP Style
- SAPs fourth analyst conference has come and gone, and my fellow bloggers (Farber, Nolan, Howlett, among others) have already weighed in extensively on the medium and the message that will guide SAP into the new year. Ill try another tack -- the venerable second-day lead, aka the round-up article written...
- Tags: SAP AG, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- 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
- The blogger corner at SAP's Sapphire conference
- I missed SAP's Sapphire conference this week, attending to the Future in Review, Gartner Symposium, JavaOne and a root canal, but there is plenty of coverage. Some good, although sparse, coverage is coming from the bloggers Jeff Nolan coralled into attending the event in Orlando. Among ZDNet bloggers and SAP...
- Tags: SAP AG, SAPPHIRE, blogger
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- SAP: On the Knife Edge, Exactly Where They Want To Be
- After two days at SAP's Sapphire user conference, I struggled with finding the big picture amidst a plethora of announcements, strategic and tactical, that have spanned the gamut from acquisition Frictionless, to ecosystem (a new $125 milliion venture fund), to a new interface Muse, to updated versions of their ERP,...
- Tags: SAP AG
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- Can SAP CRM break out of the SoSaaS box?
- Everyone seems to expect that SAP's hosted CRM announcement, due Thursday, will be just another ho-hum reprise of the Same old Software, as a Service SoSaaS concept that's been tried and failed for so many other vendors. Certainly that was my expectation six months ago. But I'd much...
- Tags: SAP AG, Varian Medical Systems Inc., CRM
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
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