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- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation
- It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants†Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...
- Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Bruce, Simon Wardley, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Congratulations Marcââ¬Â¦ The next $billion will be harder
- In 10 years, salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff has turned CRM-as-a-service into a $1B business with 55,400 customers. Both numbers are impressive. It took SAP more than 35 years and an acquisition of Business Objects to cross the 50,000 customer mark (BOBJ pushed them over 80,000). ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Siebel Systems Inc., SAP AG, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Bruce Richardson
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- When Citi shares cost less than a newspaper
- This is a bit off topic, but I was in an elevator when the small screen flashed with the news that shares of Citigroup had sunk below the $1 mark to 97 cents. That’s down 14.2% from yesterday. As of 12:43 p.m. ET the price has risen to $1.035, giving the...
- Tags: Citigroup Inc., Bruce Richardson
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Outsourcing links for February
- Will China's Internet purges inhibit their knowledge services industry? : Interesting commentary on the fact that the Chinese government is working extremely hard to increase its level of censorship and keep the Chinese Internet-world sectioned off from the rest of the world. Human Resources Outsourcing: Where’s the Value? : ...
- Tags: Human Resources, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Top 10 SOA posts for 2007 -- part 1
- SOA efforts became a part of the IT activities of many organizations this year. However, as many are learning, SOA is more than another project to be developed and rolled out. Rather, it can be a huge game-changer -- both in terms of the way the organization looks at information...
- Tags: AMR Research, Information Technology, SOA, #9, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Business ByDesign: an Irregular verdict
- After a long day and intense series of discussions with SAP executives, the Enterprise Irregulars parsed immediate impressions of Business ByDesign. The general mood was one of quiet approval for a product set that is, as the company claims, a complete on-demand offering. Our generally positive...
- Tags: SAP AG, Downside, BBD, SAP Business ByDesign, Sales Force Management, Games, Channel Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- SAP promises to deliver 'Big SOA' -- then what?
- ZDNet blogging colleague Dan Farber recently spoke with Shai Agassi, president of SAPs product and technology group, about SAPs emerging SOA strategy, who promised that SAP would be leading the enterprise SOA market by the end of 2007. SAP will be able to move thousands of customers to...
- Tags: SOA, SAP AG, Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007
- SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007SAP is crashing in the chasmIn Geoffrey Moore's work, the ERP product space was characterized as moving from Main Street to the laggard market. SAP crossed that chasm years ago. SAP, Oracle and Microsoft are attempting to own the software platform with...
- Tags: Development tools, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007
- Following SAP CEO Henning Kagermann’s presentation at SAPs fourth annual analyst summit, Shai Agassi, president of the Product & Technology Group, laid out the companys technical vision. He believes that SAP is in position to lead the chasm-crossing from the client-server model to enterprise SOA, and become the dominant...
- Tags: Dan Farber, General, IT Management, SAP AG, Shai Agassi, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- SAP bets on enterprise SOA, but are customers ready?
- "It’s not necessary to buy companies to get growth,” said SAP CEO Henning Kagermann, speaking at the company’s fourth annual analyst summit. He was referring to rival Oracle’s approach to growth, spending more than $20 billion on acquisitions, and pointed to SAP’s 11 consecutive quarters of growth and market share...
- Tags: SOA, SAP AG, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Can SOA pick up where ERP leaves off?
- Last month, I ran a piece that generated a lot of discussion, quoting Bruce Richardson's prediction that SOA would usurp many of the functions that now sit at the application level in ERP systems. Sometimes, ERP may seem like too much, but other times, believe it or not, it's not...
- Tags: SOA, ERP system, ERP
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- Analyst: SOA may unleash the patent dogs
- Supply Chain Digest is reporting that supply chain software vendor i2 has filed a patent infringement suit against SAP, claiming SAP violated a number of its software patents related to supply chain optimization and modeling software techniques. A boatload of patents will get wheeled out once...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- SAP: SOA killing ERP? Bring it on
- There's been some interesting discussions popping up around Bruce Richardson's recent prediction that SOA will kill off ERP also discussed in this blog. Charles Zedlewski, who works for SAP, says this really isn't news to his company, which has been shifting its business model to a more service-oriented focus for...
- Tags: SAP AG
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- AMR: SOA will kill ERP
- Bruce Richardson of AMR Research predicts the unthinkable: that "rapid adoption of SOA will lead to the end of the ERP market as we know it." "Here’s the doomsday scenario, circa 2010: SAP and Oracle customers have stopped buying applications from their ERP vendors. Instead, they contract with low-cost Indian...
- Tags: SOA, ERP
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Salesforce.com launches AppExchange OEM
- Salesforce.com continues to build out its application ecosystem with an OEM Edition of AppExchange. For $25 per user per month, developers can create and deliver on demand applications built on the Salesforce.com platform and infrastructure. The OEM Edition excludes Salesforce.com's CRM applications, and AppExchange OEM Edition developers are responsible for...
- Tags: Edition, Salesforce.com Inc., OEM
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- 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
- It's the user experience, stupid
- Before I forget, I want to flag up this great article on BusinessWeek. It goes right to the heart of the divergence of opinion between people who understand why on-demand is the future of software and people like Jeff Nolan who don't get it yet. Here's a smattering of salient...
- Tags: software
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- No trash talking from SAP's Agassi
- SAP executive board member and product & technology head Shai Agassi gave the NetWeaver pitch to the Software 2006 crowd this morning, and dropped some hints about solutions for small business that he said could be set up in one minute. Agassi was quick to point out the SAP's...
- Tags: SAP AG, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- Software 2006: SOA, the land grab
- During a break at Software 2006, I caught up with Bruce Richardson [below], chief research officer at AMR Research. He cuts through the noise when it comes to enterprise software. He comments on SOA, Oracle, SAP and the vendor/user relationship.Ray Lane talked about how the software industry needs a big...
- Tags: SAP AG, Bruce Richardson, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
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