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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 â€" 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
- Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign II
- Following yesterday's post on the management changes at SAP and the pending departure of Peter Zencke, I got a call from SAP. Would I be available to discuss the issue with Peter ASAP? Here's some highlights from the conversation: As reported, Zencke is retiring from the...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- 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
- Strong sales focus as SAP shuffles the board
- Following today's announcement of board changes at SAP, it is clear the company is looking to strengthen sales representation. As I suggested earlier Henning Kagermann will retire next May handing over the CEO's spot to Leo Apotheker. He will be supported by Bill McDermott who now has a global sales...
- Tags: Board, Peter Zencke, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Governance, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesigniKnowWare enables SaaS personalization PLUS VIDEOStarting in 2002 iKnowWare was well on its way empowering SMB's to connect each business touchpoint in their language. Not changing the way you do business but powering you to do business your way. Personalization increases adoption and...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Corporate communications, iKnowWare, SAP AG, Peter Zencke
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign
- Peter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...
- Tags: Tenant, mySAP, Database, Peter Zencke, Customer, SAP AG, Automation, Business ByDesign, DF, PZ, Storage, AJAX, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- 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
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- What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?
- Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...
- Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategy
- Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategyyes, butyou heard some of the same comments I did at Sapphire. The CFO has the product on a tight leash in terms of qualifying new customers. They have old filters for a new computing paradigm. Not sure if they will ever find this model...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, Enterprise software, strategy, SAP AG, software-as-a-service, SAP Business byDesign SaaS strategy, SAP Business ByDesign
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
- 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
- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict
- I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...
- Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- 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: Dell Computer Corp., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Internet, Larry Dignan, Merrill, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, SAP AG
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?
- SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?He's staying a bit longer than you might thinkZencke agreed to do a extra time through a consultancy. Plattner said Zencke's role is being re-distribute among the board.Consulting is what it isYou're right that Peter Zencke has agreed to stay on as...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Zencke, Succession Plan, Business ByDesign, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- SAP Influencer Summit: SOA grows up
- I'm spending a couple of days at the SAP Influencer Summit, an invitation-only event for approximately 500 key SAP partners, bloggers, analysts, user group leaders, academics, and the press. According to Mike Prosceno, Vice President for Marketplace Communications, the Influencer Summit is intended to facilitate "networking and relationship building,...
- Tags: SAP AG, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Product Development, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- NetSuite SuiteBundler: Most important software of last ten years?
- Along the road to an expected IPO this year, NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson announced SuiteBundler, a new set of capabilities for building and customizing applications with the company's software-as-a-service SaaS platform. The major innovation is that customizations and configurations created in one NetSuite account can be reused in another account...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Application, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, SAP AG, NetSuite SuiteBundler, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Sales, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Oracle's double standards
- Oracle has allegedly invited 30 bloggers to its Oracle OpenWorld event. Yay - they get the value of independent analysis...or do they? Check Jake Kuramoto's blog on the topic: Oracle has extended an invitation to leaders in the blogging community, who can come experience the pageantry of an entire...
- Tags: Back Story, Blogger, Blogging, Conversation, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett, Internet, Jeff, Marketing, Mike Krigsman, Oracle Corp., Public Relations, SAP AG, Standards
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Podcast: Microsoft HealthVault, Zune, SAP and more....
- This week on the Dan & David Show Microsoft dominates the news. Today the company introduced HealthVault, and free client application and Microsoft Live service for building and maintaining health records. It's an emerging market that is going to be huge, with Google and others trying to gain favor as...
- Tags: Game, Google Inc., Podcast, Microsoft Zune, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Podcasts, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- News to know: Zune; 100,000 year storage; SAP
- Notable headlines: Robin Harris: 100,000 year nanowire storage. Microsoft unveils revamped Zunes. Matthew Miller: Microsoft announces new flash Zunes and the Zune 80GB, still no WiFi downloads. Microsoft press release. Gallery right. David Berlind: Interview: Google completes integration of Postini into...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Sales Strategy, Rootkits, Storage, Sales, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- O'Reilly talks turning IT inside out and data lock-in at SAP TechEd
- SAP's TechEd '07 got off to glitzy start in Las Vegas as the pied piper of Web 2.0 Tim O'Reilly told the crowd of about 6,000 NetWeaver, Java, ABAP, ERP developers about the design patterns and business models for the next generation of software (hint, it's not on premises client/server...
- Tags: Web, Nokia Corp., Information Technology, Interaction, Data, SAP AG, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- SAP gets SaaS: can it run with it?
- When talking to software vendors about SaaS, my mantra is that SaaS is a journey. Having seen SAP unveil its Business ByDesign product today â€" formerly codenamed A1S â€" I have to say it is on the right road and it has hit the tarmac at an impressive pace. There...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
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