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- SAP keynote: Leo Apotheker's appeal for clarity
- SAP keynote: Leo Apotheker's appeal for claritySAP Business ByDesign is approaching - slowly but approachingAs practice lead at one of the Early Parters in Germany, I cann assure you that SAP continues to build momentum for its ByDesign solution in six focus countries: US, Germany, UK, France, China and India,...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, SAP Business ByDesign
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- SAP keynote: Leo Apotheker's appeal for clarity
- Leo Apotheker, co-CEO at SAP has just concluded his keynote speech with a call for 'clarity' in enterprises of all sizes. "The past 10 months have indeed been a turning point for all of us...it is time for clarity...time to be clear...We all face a new reality and it's not...
- Tags: Software, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- The certification timebomb
- 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. ...
- Tags: Certification, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Devil, Allerton, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- SAP's Apotheker takes on shoddy consultants, certifications
- In an animated--and sometimes tense--conversation with bloggers, SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said the software giant would step over a systems integrator if it would save an IT project. That comment, which was in response to multiple questions about the triangle between consultants, SAP and customers, illustrates how the enterprise application...
- Tags: Certification, Customer, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Loyalty, Quality, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- SAP's Kagermann to retire early
- Reports coming out of Germany say that Henning Kagermann, co-CEO at SAP will retire earlier than expected. Heise Online says that Kagermann will leave at the end of January. The company has chosen not to comment on this event but "Market sources confirmed however the particulars." I'm...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Heise Online, Yahoo Finance, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Workforce Management, Sales, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)
- With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...
- Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- SAP's forced march may be good news
- At SAP TechEd Berlin, Leo Apotheker, co-CEO reinforced the message that the enhancement packages will significantly reduce the amount of testing that customers need undertake as part of an upgrade. However, consultants disagreed. Jim Spath of Black and Decker for instance said: "There is no way we...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- 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
- 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 â€" and that its last quarter, while decent, failed to meet analyst estimates â€" 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 â€" 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
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