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- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought Yahoo
- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought YahooMS shouldn't be allowed to buy any big companiesThey should get their own house in order first, release worthwhile OS's, and put an end to their sick anti-competitive bullying.The world needs free markets and competition to thrive, not one huge monopoly.The more MS can...
- Tags: INTERNET, Kagermann, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- SAP sets succession plan; Apotheker named co-CEO
- Update: SAP said Wednesday that it has named Leo Apotheker [at right] co-CEO with Henning Kagermann in a move that solidifies the company's succession plan. Kagermann's contract with SAP runs out in May 2009. SAP made the announcement in a company statement. Apotheker's role...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Kagermann, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Governance, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Disrupting the business SAP style
- Larry Dignan has the latest update in the never-ending A1S saga but leaves some lingering questions: In the mid-market there will likely be "rental models" that resemble traditional leasing arrangements with customers. These models aren't new, but are rare today. Kagermann indicated that these software leasing models...
- Tags: Financial Service, SAP AG, Leasing, A1S Kagermann, Larry, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermann warms up for A1S launch
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermann did one of his last warm-ups before the company rolls out its A1S midmarket suite on Sept. 19. Speaking at the Citigroup 14th Annual Technology Conference, Kagermann didn't break a lot of new ground, but did note some interesting developments for software licensing. He...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Leasing, A1S, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- 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
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- 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
- The changing SAP culture
- The changing SAP cultureHow will SAP attract developer talent?The #1 issue I see with SAP, as an outsider, is that it is a closed, proprietary system with which it is impossible to get experience. People who implement SAP scream and scream for developer talent who can make it sing and...
- Tags: Programming languages, Enterprise software, SAP AG, ABAP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- The changing SAP culture
- As Henning Kagermann, SAP's co-CEO prepares for what will probably be his swansong keynote speech at SAPPHIRE 2008 and Leo Apotheker, CEO-in-waiting prepares for the transfer in power, still a year away, a group of the Enterprise Irregulars were able to contrast the different styles of these two industry leaders....
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Leadership, Biotechnology, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought Yahoo
- If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice on what he should do with his $40 billion to $50 billion the advice would be: Spend it on Yahoo. That call isn't totally out of the question given that Ballmer and Kagermann...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- In search of Business ByDesign: The NetWeaver 7.1 connection
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermann on Monday detailed another key thread in the Business ByDesign delay: Developers need to move the software as a service application to the company's NetWeaver 7.1 platform if it is going to meet its costs targets. In an interview with the Enterprise Irregulars...
- Tags: SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, TCO, Roi/Tco, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- 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
- EIC podcast: SAP, Intel, Dell, XP and Google
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk SAP, Intel's Mobile Internet Devices, Dell and Google's employee exodus. Dan and I mull over the SAP's succession plan. SAP named Leo Apotheker co-CEO with Henning Kagermann, who has a contract that runs out in 2009. Apotheker will be...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, SAP AG, Intel Corp., Dan, Merrill, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- 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
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