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In search of Business ByDesign: The NetWeaver 7.1 connection

In search of Business ByDesign: The NetWeaver 7.1 connectionSaaS needs a 16:1 Operations Cost ReductionGreat post Larry, I wish I was there with you guys to hear from the horse's mouth.I've been writing for a long time that SaaS has a 16:1 operations cost advantage over conventional software. You...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, software-as-a-service, NetWeaver 7.1, Business ByDesign, SAP NetWeaver

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

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Lemons into Lemonade â€" Business Suite 7

(mid-press conference post - subject to update) SAP today announced its Business Suite 7 today. Here’s a set of capabilities that extend the core ERP solution set. Specifically, what BS7 does apparently, is to take some the lessons SAP learned from the expensive development of its Business...

Tags: SAP AG, BS7, SOA Ability, BOBJ Functionality, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Is SAP's weakness its real strength?

Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element within SAP that was in evidence during Shai Agassi's tenure. For me, Merritt charaterizes the public face of fracture I...

Tags: SAP AG, Merritt, Phil, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Leadership, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-22

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

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

News to know: SAP; Hacking NASA; Apple; OpenSolaris

Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers? Common misconceptions about database security Sapphire 2008: Dennis Howlett: The changing SAP culture Larry Dignan: SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., OpenSolaris, Hacking, Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-06

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

Oracle's Charles Phillips: Fusion on track and SaaS for all

In a meeting with Enterprise Irregulars after his keynote at OpenWorld, Oracle President Charles Phillips discussed the future of Fusion, software-as-a-service SaaS, his notion of "acquired innovation" and other topics. Fusion is Oracle's next-generation suite of applications, built from the ground up on SOA principles. He was...

Tags: Application, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Fusion, Multitenancy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Web Services, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-12

SAP's parallel approaches to ERP

During his presentation at SAP TechEd '07, Peter Zencke, a member of SAP's Executive Board and head of R&D, made it clear to the 6,000 SAP developers in attendance that the forthcoming Business ByDesign ERP suite for the mid-market is technological milestone for the company. "We put everything into one,...

Tags: Business Process, SAP NetWeaver, Peter Zencke, SAP AG, ERP, Business ByDesign, Business Process Platform, Operational Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-02

SAP Sapphire clean up

ARM Research analyst and SAP watcher Bruce Richardson offers his top ten list of takeaways from SAP's Sapphire conference last week. His conclusion:We are seeing is the maturation of SAP’s strategy around business process platforms and enterprise service-oriented architecture SOA. If I were an SAP customer, I’d find that very...

Tags: SAP AG

Blog posts 2006-05-22

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 SP1

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 SP1Only fools use SQL Server. The smart money is with MySQL PostgreSQL IngresWhy pay for an inferior product???SQLServer vs OracleIf you need a high end product go for oracle. Why pay for SQL Server lock-in when you can get cross platform mysql or postgress SQL....

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Servers, SAP partner program, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Corp., server, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-19

SAP NetWeaver Empowers STM Employees With Portal, Knowledge Management, and Business Intelligence Capabilities

Every weekday Societe de transport de Montreal STM - Montreal, Quebec's public transportation company - logs 1.3 million trips on its four metropolitan subway lines and nearly 1,600 buses. Moving passengers through and under the streets of this Canadian city requires people and money - nearly 7,300 employees and an...

Tags: Knowledge, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Portals, Knowledge Management, Tools & Techniques, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Databases, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Internet, Management

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