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- SAP A1S: the big day
- SAP A1S: the big dayWorkdayWhy anyone mentions Workday in the same breath with these other guys is beyond me. And no customization = no customers. They are crazy if they think they are going to meet a market as diverse as the 100-500 crowd with a vanilla product.You...
- Tags: SAP A1S, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- SAP's slow hand A1S play
- SAP's slow hand A1S playBusiness One is eating Microsoft's lunch AND dinner.It' will be exciting to watch A1S take all the food out of Microsofts ERP pantry!RE: SAP's slow hand A1S playNo customization = no customers. They are crazy -- and clueless -- if they think they are going to...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft ERP, SAP A1S, A1S play, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., ERP
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- SAP A1S: the big day
- Today, SAP formally unveils A1S, code name for SAP's attempt to reinvent itself as an SME-friendly company. More than that, A1S represents SAP's opportunity to compete against smaller, more nimble competitors such as Salesforce.com, Workday, and NetSuite. These companies pose a significant, long-term threat to SAP, even though SAP's core,...
- Tags: SAP AG, Consulting, SAP A1S, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- SAP's A1S: love, not pricing, is key
- SAP's A1S: love, not pricing, is keyTrust is important, but there are other factorsSome of us have worked for both global enterprises and smallish companies too. Big enterprises seem to be prepared to spend so much money on IT that one is sometimes overcome by the fear that the shareholders...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SMB/SME, Enterprise software, pricing strategy, SAP AG, SAP A1S
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its BestAbsolutely Ridiculous - A1S = Way2LateThis advertisement for SAP is ridiculous in its lack of objectivity. Even people inside of SAP are not this bullish (i.e. are more balanced in their analysis) How many years has A1s been under...
- Tags: Sales force management, Strategy, product innovation, SAP AG, SAP A1S, Brinkmanship, Force.com, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best
- It's going to a hard week for Salesforce.com and Marc Benioff. If the Wall St. Journal's scoop is true (probably is, chances are it was "leaked" to the Journal by Salesforce itself), then whatever thunder Marc was hoping to gather by making his usual blockbuster announcement ("the single most exciting...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., SAP AG, A1S, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- ZDNet's first MonkCast: Will SAP's A1S service disrupt its on-premises A1?
- ZDNet's first MonkCast: Will SAP's A1S service disrupt its on-premises A1?Article created Huge impression about RedMonkBut while listening to the Podcast, i never really found my self still impressed by the talks, its looks like quite general talk and not really as hyped by the write up!!regards,
- Tags: Podcasts, SAP A1S, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- ZDNet's first MonkCast: Will SAP's A1S service disrupt its on-premises A1?
- In what I hope will be a regularly recurring podcast here on ZDNet, we've launched our first "MonkCast." On a periodic basis weekly is the goal, I'll be interviewing James Governor, principal analyst and co-founder of the research outfit Redmonk see his blog and his fellow researchers at Redmonk...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Matters Podcast, MonkCast Podcast, Open Source, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- SAP's A1S still shrouded in the mists
- Guest post: AccMan blogger and deep thinker on enterprise software Dennis Howlett, along with some of the other Enterprise Irregulars, is in Vienna for SAP's Euro Sapphire conference. It covers the same material as Sapphire Atlanta, which Dennis attended and took place last month. Similar to the Atlanta conference, the...
- Tags: ERP, Enterprise 2.0, General, IT Management, SaaS, SAP, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- What's up with SAP's 'game-changing' A1S
- SAP has been talking up its forthcoming solution for the mid-market, A1S, that will help the company grow from around 40,000 customers to 100,000 by 2010. According to Shai Agassi, president of SAP's Products & Technology Group, the goal of new suite is to dramatically reduce the tax across technology,...
- Tags: Game, SAP A1S, SAP AG, Wrap, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
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- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Vista adoption in the enterprise is mired in the single digits, but is an option for companies that have Windows releases before XP. Nineteen percent of enterprise users use Firefox. And the Mac OS is making some headway in the enterprise, but Apple lacks a coherent strategy to pitch business...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Enterprise, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release
- Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud
- Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloudA Future On-DemandGreat description of our philosophy and approach. As you noted and we expand on in our blog we are just as excited about what doesn't change -our core business model- as we are about what does - being even more...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Groupware, Google Gmail, Sequoia, enterprise app, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- SAP to shut down TomorrowNow; Oracle gets its sacrifice
- SAP's purchase of TomorrowNow in 2005 sounded like a great idea: Undercut Oracle on support and squeeze your biggest rival. And then came Oracle's lawsuit. SAP said Monday that it will wind down the operations of TomorrowNow, which provided third party support for Oracle applications. In a...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Pricing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Apple chaos theory
- I got a fairly lukewarm response to my excitement over Oracle putting applications on the iPhone. That should be no surprise to readers of Fortune which also poured cold water on the idea that iPhone's are going to be the next big thing in corporate gadgets: Companies in highly...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, CIO, Theory, Information Technology, Apple Inc., Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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