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Léo Apotheker’s Leadership Opportunity: SAP At the Crossroads

Léo Apotheker is slated to take over the helm of SAP this January, and while many have worked with him, broken bread with him, and generally admired his business acumen and very successful career, there’s one problem with his ascension to the top executive position in the enterprise software...

Tags: Leadership, SAP AG, Léo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-09-18

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SAP Q3: sales down, profit up

SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...

Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-28

SAP software revenues plummet, announces new deal on maintenance

SAP has announced its Q1 results. total revenue was €2,397 million compared to €2,460 in Q1 2008, a fall of three percent. While operating income was only down eight percent, software revenues were off 33%, falling from €622million in Q1 2008 to €422 million. Support revenue climbed...

Tags: Software, Revenue, SAP AG, No. Ray Wang, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-28

SAP's Kagermann to retire early

SAP's Kagermann to retire earlyCorrection: Henning will serve his full term at SAP as originally plannedSAP issued a press release today refuting this speculation:Henning will serve his full term at SAP as originally planned - 01/20/2009 Léo Apotheker as co-CEO will take on more and more management responsibility as already...

Tags: SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

SAP's Apotheker & Harvard Business School's McAfee discuss silos

A conversation with Léo Apotheker, co-CEO and a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG and Andrew Mcafee of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School on PBS's Charlie Rose show. This TV appearance is a fascinating indication of how much more seriously...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Harvard Business School, SAP AG, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Léo Apotheker’s Leadership Opportunity: SAP At the Crossroads

Léo Apotheker’s Leadership Opportunity: SAP At the Crossroadsto Leo I say dump the product and sell Quickbooks...Your days of dictating business systems to customers and exorbant maintenance fees are numbered. everything about the products you offer is so yesterday... once the fall starts, and it will start... investors will...

Tags: Leadership Opportunity, Crossroads, leadership, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

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

Can SAP learn to speak SME with A1S?

SAP faces tough challenges as it prepares for the September 19 launch of A1S, code name for the company's new small business offering, to be delivered in the form of software as a service SaaS. A1S represents SAP's hope to expand into the important small and medium enterprise SME market....

Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, SAP AG, A1S, A1S Question, Smb/Sme, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-17

SAP Falls Off BusinessWeek 100 IT List

SAP has fallen off the BusinessWeek list of top 100 IT companies. From the article, here is the explanation why SAP was removed:SAPA new line of software from SAP will let customers tap into programs on an SAP [NYSE:SAP] server and use SAP functions without installing and maintaining...

Tags: Vendor relationships

Blog posts 2007-06-25

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