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		<title><![CDATA[How badly are your business applications performing?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=994]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    Due for formal release later this week, a study conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Precise at SAP's May 2009 SAPPHIRE reveals some remarkable stats about systems performance and the response times for problem resolution. 695 persons completed the survey. Some key metrics:  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:20:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reviewing Sapphire, user interfaces, the Devil's Triangle, and IT success]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=4094]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post was written by SAP expert, Jon Reed, describing a podcast interview he conducted with me following SAP's recent Sapphire conference. by Michael Krigsman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:37:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Has SAP hog tied itself on maintenance?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=738]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spent the last hour discussing SAP Solution Manager and Run SAP with Jon Reed. Jon's a fellow SAP Mentor and expert on the skill sets needed to make SAP implementations successful. We were discussing this post where he says:  Taken together, Run SAP and Solution Manager are the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:09:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Roche CIO on SAP, consultants, certification, and system integrators]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=1518]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week SAP unveiled its new ERP upgrade, called Business Suite 7. As part of the launch event in New York City, the company invited several enterprise software bloggers to meet with Jennifer Allerton, CIO of Roche and a large SAP customer.    You can listen to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The certification timebomb]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=620]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had been a fly on the wall at yesterday's meeting between some of my Irregular colleagues and SAP's Leo Apotheker. I've been in some of those 'tense' meetings. While it was ongoing, Larry Skyped me to say that Vinnie Mirchandani was giving Leo a tough time. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:52:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The great certification debate]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=575]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year at SAP TechEd, Vinnie Mirchandani, Mike Krigsman andÂ  I spent an entertaining 15 minutes verbally abusing challenging Zia Yusef, who runs SAP's ecosystem of developers, SIs and partners. The thrust of our argument was that SAP's inability to control its ecosystem means that projects often run over time...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:33:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise meltdown?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=574]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SAP is canning SAPPHIRE Europe    Â Microsoft pinkslips 5,000 employees amid a reasonable but tepid performance    How bad is it out there?    The enterprise grapevine tells me that IBM is likely to dump 16,000 (yes- that's sixteen thousand) people   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:58:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP's forced march may be good news]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAP's forced march may be good newscreative dialogue neededNice post, Dennis. I have written on the SAP maintenance flap before and I feel like I may be a broken record on this issue. Dennis, you have a done a good job in your posts of highlighting what SAP can do...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
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