joshua greenbaum and sap ag and uncategorized

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

SAP beats Oracle? Oracle surrounding SAP? Microsoft raking in new customers?

Who's winning what and does anyone really care?SAP just turned in a great quarter, one that, according to my favorite financial analyst, Charlie di Bona, cemented his contention that "SAP continues to compete aggressively against ORCL in the applications market." It also proves, di Bona, that SAP is growing twice...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-07-20

The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite's IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software

A response from SAP in the Oracle vs. SAP lawsuit and NetSuite files for an IPO. Two seemingly disconnected events trickled down through the technosphere during 4th of July week, and, having been blissfully disconnected myself for much of the week, I came back with a mission to try to...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Hell Freezes Over: Oracle Buying Shares in SAP?

The rumor du jour hit the Reuters wire early this morning, and it's a doozie: SAP's shares are up in recent trading because Oracle has bought some eight percent of the company. Considering April Fool's Day is come and gone, one has to assume that this was reported not for...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-22

SAP Does CPM: Et Tu, Oracle

SAP has fired back at Oracle, in rather short order, with the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a corporate performance management vendor based in Stamford, Conn. It looks like short order of course, as Oracle announced its Hyperion acquisition a scant two months ago. But SAP, having passed a while ago on...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Bipolar Oracle

Outside the SAP user conference in Atlanta, the cameras were rolling. Looking for sound bites were Oracle operatives, trying to get SAP customers to say – on camera and with SAPPHIRE logos as a backdrop – that SAP’s software was expensive, hard to deploy, and helped make the world safe...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-25

The Post-Shai Era II

On the plane home from SAP’s Sapphire conference, reflecting on the overall impact of the announcements and the gestalt of the conference, it’s easy to conclude that SAP will survive Shai Agassi’s abrupt departure. It may be hard on the press – who seemed to be craving the acerbic sound...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Is NetWeaver Finally Hitting Its Stride?

SAP has bet a lot on NetWeaver, its platform-cum-SOA strategy, and has endured the slings and arrows of competitors belittling the fact that it didn’t reach universal adoption in the two-plus years since it was first announced. But it seems like data from ASUG, the US-based SAP user group,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Leapfrog on the Desktop

No good idea goes unchallenged, and today’s announcement at the Microsoft Dynamics Convergence conference that Office has become the new client for its enterprise applications suite follows on the extraordinary success that the Office gang has already registered in the SAP market. That success , aka Duet, has been one...

Tags: desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Dynamics, Duet, SAP AG, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Into the SMB Breach -- This Time with Feeling

It seems that everyone in the enterprise software market is after the great untapped riches that are allegedly there for the taking in the so-called mid-market. SAP, trying to put some luster on a bad quarter, announced its new A1S mid-market program just recently, with some fabulous goals in mind,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-16

SAP CEO Stays Put for the Right Reasons

Its easy to ponder what a German supervisory board is thinking from several thousand miles away, and more than one of my fellow bloggers has speculated that Henning Kagermanns tenure was extended mostly because there was no one to succeed him. Thats kind of a "glass-half-empty" view of the situation,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-15

SAP's Bad Quarter and the Tsunami's Low Tide

While I was a little surprised to see SAPs miss its numbers -- and, lets be honest, the miss was more because of the weakness of the dollar than any other single factor -- I was even more surprised by the piling on of comments regarding the so-called strategic shortcomings...

Tags: Uncategorized, SAP AG

Blog posts 2007-01-12

SAP's Succession Debate: To Soon To Tell

The enterprise software collective subconscious is working hard trying to figure out what will happen when SAPs top management faces some forthcoming deadlines about who is to succeed CEO Henning Kagermann in coming years. Sitting in a Berkeley coffee shop yesterday with two European business reporters, the Kagermann question came...

Tags: Uncategorized, SAP AG, Henning Kagermann

Blog posts 2007-01-10

The Game of Leapfrog, SAP Style

SAPs fourth analyst conference has come and gone, and my fellow bloggers (Farber, Nolan, Howlett, among others) have already weighed in extensively on the medium and the message that will guide SAP into the new year. Ill try another tack -- the venerable second-day lead, aka the round-up article written...

Tags: SAP AG, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Additional Resources

Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?

My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...

Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think

Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...

Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem

Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Web Application, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright, Pricing, Smb/Sme, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-06

SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing

SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

SAP: first to hit the buffers

SAP pre-announced its Q3 results at what could not have come at a worse time for the beleaguered stock market. Although executives were bragging about 4% growth in software sales as though BusinessObjects doesn't exist the reality is that year over year growth was off 9%. Management...

Tags: Software, SAP AG, U.S. GAAP Software Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-06