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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

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's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led to delay

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker says that Business ByDesign, the application giant's high-profile software as a service product, was delayed because of its total cost of ownership for the company. That's a fancy way of saying SAP hasn't figured out how to make money at its $149 per...

Tags: SAP AG, TCO, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-05

The Leo Apotheker Legacy Starts Now

The news that SAP is delaying the roll-out of Business ByDesign – and that its last quarter, while decent, failed to meet analyst estimates – is the perfect preamble to this post: With Leo Apotheker slated to assume to mantle of SAP by the end of the year, his...

Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, TCO, Sales, Leo Apotheker, Leo, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Apotheker on the offensive

In the second of SAP's press calls today, Leo Apotheker brought some of the sex and sizzle for which he is well known to the discussion around the previously announced boardroom changes. Asked to comment on the fact Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO was pretty much silent about the BEA acquisition...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Research & Development, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-02

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

Leo Apotheker appointed joint CEO at SAP

According to sources, Leo Apotheker is set to join Henning Kagermann as joint CEO of SAP. Previously, Apotheker held the post of deputy CEO. The move signals that rather than extend his contract of service with the company which runs out in May 2009, Henning Kagermann has...

Tags: SAP AG, CEO, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Corporate Governance, Sales Force Management, Team Management, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Business ByDesign, SAP's slow-burning fuse

Reading through the coverage of yesterday's Business ByDesign announcement, some contrasting impressions stand out. On the one hand, Zoli Erdos calls SAP's new SaaS offering "a game changer." I'm inclined to agree with him, personally. SAP is now backing SaaS, which is a huge validation — and...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-09-20

SAP's 100,000 customers by 2010: 'aspirational'

During the launch of Business ByDesign, SAP said that it expects to achieve a run rate of adding 10,000 BBD customers a year by 2010. This raised questions about whether SAP will reach its previously stated target of 100,000 customers by 2010. I was concerned because it was always my...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Smb/Sme, Web Technology, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Sales, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-20

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'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

Additional Resources

Can we trust our GPS devices?

In recent years, we have become increasingly dependent on applications using the Global Positioning System GPS, such as railway control, highway traffic management, emergency response or commercial aviation. But in a very short news release, the American Geophysical Union AGU warns us that we can't always trust our GPS gadgets...

Tags: Satellite, Occultation, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-10

MB Leo Astrology (exe)

MB Free Leo Astrology gives a detailed and comprehensive report that includes the positive and negative characteristics of people born with the sun in a particular zodiac sign Leo according to Western Astrology. This software includes your general nature, positive and negative traits, gemstone, element, ruling planet, and career and...

Tags: MysticBoard, Professional Development, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Career, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-05-27

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

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

Is BBD hoist by SAP's on-premise petard?Business By DelaySAP locked 1,000 German engineers in an offsite location for five years to develop Business ByDesign. This follows the traditional model for building complex enterprise software-- your quotes from Leo regarding "perfection" reflect that mentality. Software-as-a-Service SaaS, on the other hand, allows,...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), BBd, 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

1Password (dmg)

1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in...

Tags: Password, Web Browser, Agile Web Solutions, 1Password, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2008-05-16

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