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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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
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- Microsoft Dynamics: solid customer stories, quietly confident
- Last week I attended Microsoft's Convergence conference in Copenhagen. This is where Microsoft's business application customers tip up to hear what's new and get their annual infusion of feel goodness. While there was little by way of hard news other than it putting NAV2009 into general availability, customers seem happy...
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.com
- SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.comByDesign Brings Competition for the First Time to SaaSAs I've been saying, the real news behind ByDesign is it brings competition to SaaS for the first time:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/saps-a1s-brings-competition-to-saas-for-the-first-time/This is a good thing for the market. Choices will only accelerate adoption.RE: SAP's challenge to NetSuite,...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Ellison: Where's the big money in SaaS?
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says software as a service and the small business markets are interesting, but not terribly profitable. In other words, Ellison largely dismissed SAP's Business ByDesign. But the dismissal isn't exactly what it seems. Ellison was speaking for Oracle and for the company a move downmarket...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- SAP Business ByDesign: Competitive Advantage and the Dynamics of Enterprise Software
- There are lots of reasons why companies chose SaaS/On Demand applications, but driving competitive advantage is not always at the top of the list. That’s why SAP’s Business ByDesign announcement this week in New York looked a little more interesting than other SaaS/OD announcements I’ve attended. The customers that SAP...
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- SAP Business ByDesign: will it reduce project failures?
- SAP's new Business ByDesign (formerly called A1S) software as a service SaaS offering represents a substantial departure from previous SAP products. What are the implications of Business ByDesign on deployment and implementation; in other words, will this new product reduce implementation failures? To answer this question,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Welcome to the party, SAP
- Welcome to the party, SAPSAP brings competition for the first time to SaaSI've read the latest releases, and I'll stick to my original instinct about A1S: It brings competition to the SaaS market for the first time.For so long, SaaS has been all about SaaS vs Conventional software. ...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- SAP Business ByDesign: first analysis
- SAP's new A1S offering, formally called Business ByDesign, is intended for companies between 100-500 employees, which do not have deep vertical market software requirements. SAP believes this $15 billion market will help SAP dramatically expand its business over the coming years. The product is the result of...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- SAP rolls out SAP Business ByDesign
- SAP rolled out SAP Business ByDesign, the software formerly known as A1S, Wednesday. The on-demand application targets the midmarket. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann introduced the product and outlined the software's live products at an event in New York. "It's a new interface for us. We enter a...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
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