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SAP unveils Co-Innovation Lab and envisions Web 3.0

SAP held a dog and pony show, including a ribbon cutting ceremony, for the unveiling of it new Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto. "The intention is this is to be a working lab, not just a slick showcase for customers," said Zia Yusef, executive vice president of the Global Ecosystem...

Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, SAP, SaaS, IT Management, General, ERP, Enterprise 2.0, Datacenter

Blog posts 2007-06-07

SAP gets on the Enterprise 2.0 bandwagon

During his keynote, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann showed how SAP is beginning to embrace the concepts of Web 2.0. He identified self sufficiency self service, enhancing work patterns and collective intelligence as three key areas for Web 2.0 in the enterprise--also known as Enterprise 2.0. I wrote...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, General, Enterprise 2.0, Web Technology, Social networking, SAP

Blog posts 2007-04-24

SAP chief: Collaborate or die

At this weeks big SAP confab in Atlanta, SOA as a enabler for collaboration between companies was front and center of SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns address to the 14,000 assembled attendees. At the confab, the ERP giant announced that its "Enterprise SOA" strategy is on track, and that it intends...

Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Has SAP converted to SaaS?

The consensus appears to be that Nick Carr was premature in outing SAP CEO Henning Kagermann as a true SaaS believer. As Dan Farber reported on Monday, our colleagues in the Enterprise Irregulars group picked over the evidence and found it far from convincing. Not least the fact that Kagermann...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP AG, software-as-a-service, A1S, Henning Kagermann

Blog posts 2007-03-21

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

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 bets on enterprise SOA, but are customers ready?

"It’s not necessary to buy companies to get growth,” said SAP CEO Henning Kagermann, speaking at the company’s fourth annual analyst summit. He was referring to rival Oracle’s approach to growth, spending more than $20 billion on acquisitions, and pointed to SAP’s 11 consecutive quarters of growth and market share...

Tags: SOA, SAP AG, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2006-12-04

Web-based software: Not for prime-time yet?

I read with interest the recent CNet interview with SAP CEO Henning Kagermann where he was asked more questions about on-demand software and social software than not. Kagermann isn't overly impressed with the on-demand model and crisply defends what SAP, one of the largest software companies...

Tags: SAP AG, AJAX, software, Web

Blog posts 2006-04-17

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

Weaving the Net

SOA represents "the future of the software industry," says Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP, who was sharing the good news this week at the company's SAPPHIRE conference. In this environment, IT won't be seen as a cost center, but rather, a "strategic lever."Recognizing "uncertainty is here to stay," he explained...

Tags: business process, SAP AG

Blog posts 2005-05-19

Oracle vs. SAP: Duel to the finish or peaceful co-existence?

Between the words of SAP CEO Henning Kagermann and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, one could have a difficult time parsing through the hyperbole. Clearly, Oracle's acquistion of PeopleSoft (and stepchild J.D. Edwards) has resulted in the sort of sofware behemoth whose sites SAP cannot escape, right? Kagermann apparently...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG

Blog posts 2005-01-26

Up close: SAP's CEO

Since taking the reins of Germany's SAP last year, Henning Kagermann has hardly had a dull moment. First, rivals PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards agreed to merge. Then Oracle, SAP's top competitor, launched an unsolicited bid for PeopleSoft -- a bid that sent waves through the IT industry, landed Oracle in...

Tags: SAP AG, Henning Kagermann

Blog posts 2004-07-07

Additional Resources

ByDesign, the younger person's ERP

Many of the small and mid-sized businesses to whom SAP would like to sell its Business ByDesign SaaS offering are family-owned, especially in sectors like manufacturing, distribution and retail. SAP seems to feel that ByDesign will appeal to the forward-looking younger generation of those families — the future heirs of...

Tags: Peter Zencke, Product, SAP AG, ERP, WIMA, Roi/Tco, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-21

SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrum

SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrumUI problems? Mike, I wonder if they are having trouble with the user interface? Last November in a post called Enterprise Applications and User Interfaces , I wrote that: “There are changes afoot in the way enterprise applications are sold....

Tags: Blogging, Enterprise software, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

SAP: build to flip?

Executives from SAP added more color on the decision to decelerate the rollout of Business ByDesign, it increasingly looks like the management is moving more firmly into sales mode with a view to enhancing profitability. Several times during the day, board members Leo Apotheker and Henning Kagermann,...

Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Corporate Governance, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Research & Development, Strategy, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Is BBD hoist by SAP's on-premise petard?

On-premise vendors never have to run their own software*. This is by far the largest and least often anticipated handicap suffered by on-premise vendors when embarking on the on-demand model. [*OK, maybe some of them 'eat their own dogfood' by using it in-house. But they never really experience it as...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-19

News to know: Vista troubleshooting, RIM, XP SP3, Apple, SAP

Notable headlines: XP SP3: Now on Windows Update Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools [See Gallery] David Morgenstern: Is Mac OS X Leopard, Safari 3.x too dark? Larry Dignan: Cisco third...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows Update, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Diggnation for enterprise?

The cool kids in Silicon Valley think they have all the fun? Check this out: Diggnation for Enterprise featuring SAP's Bill McDermott, Henning Kagermann and Leo Apotheker at SAPPHIRE08 in Orlando. In contrast to Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, this is an altogether...

Tags: Leo Apotheker, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Apotheker goes for theatrics; Kagermann the details

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker had a simple message in his keynote Tuesday: It's all about the business network, which consists of companies, suppliers, customers and all the data that flows between them. And to be in that network you need SAP. Sound...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Apotheker, Coca-Cola Enterprise, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Sales, Web Services, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-06

SAP aims to make upgrades easier; Rolls out enhancement packages; Touts analytics

Henning Kagermann, co-CEO of SAP, wants to do away with the upgrade-go-round with its upcoming Business Suite 7.0 with "enhancement packages," small optional updates designed to add functionality to enterprise resource planning applications. Enhancement packages are small SOA-enabled packs that can add new functionality to SAP's Business...

Tags: Analytics, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Enhancement Package, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-06