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Thanksgiving reading. Soccer and enterprise apps: the similarities and differences: The other evening I had the pleasure of visiting Old Trafford soccer stadium. It's the home of Manchester United, arguably the most successful soccer team in living memory. Consistently at the top or near the top of the British Premier League and European Champions League in the late 20th and...; Tags: Team, SAP AG, Team Management, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-11-25
SAP Users start to flex their muscles: User group conferences are always great places to test the pulse of what's happening in the real world. While wandering the halls of the SAP UK and Ireland User Group annual conference this week, I came across customer representatives prepared to openly share their experiences. While there are...; Tags: SAP AG, Business Structures, Leadership, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-11-24
Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance: What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...; Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG; Discussion threads 2009-11-23
Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance: Chitter chatter over Salesforce.com Chatter is becoming almost hysterical. Is the hoopla worth the attention or is it a game changer? by Dennis Howlett; Tags: SAP AG, Games, Sales Force Management, Personal Technology, Sales, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-11-23
News to know: Microsoft; Apple vs. Psystar; Google; SAP; Smartphone attacks: Google, Apple, smartphone wars and the latest in SAP maintenance fees are today's headliners. by Larry Dignan; Tags: Google Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Smartphone, Attack, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2009-11-16

Another chapter starts to unfold in the SAP maintenance story: More details are emerging about the difficulties SAP is experiencing in imposing its maintenance price rise, managing to annoy yet another group with recent proposals. More marquee customers are named as renegotiating terms. It's not getting any better for SAP. by Dennis Howlett; Tags: SAP AG, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-11-14
SAP and open source: it's about Oracle: SAP's open source interest linked to Europe's love affair with Open SourceEurope is in love with open source. It's the only reason SAP has any interest in it. Having been an SAP buyer and user I feel like I just confessed to a drug addiction I can say unequivocally that...; Tags: SAP AG, open source, Oracle Corp.; Discussion threads 2009-11-11
SAP and open source: it's about Oracle: Matt Asay has written a piece about SAP's 'sudden' love affair with open source: What is surprising is that it is SAP, the bastion of proprietary software, that delivers this message. Irony, thy name is SAP. SAP, after all, is hardly the most...; Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Matt Asay, Open Source, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-11-11
SAP internalizes social networking for business: Corporate Social NetworkingOur business had found by having an internal network both the employees and the business at large stand to benefit. It fosters a true sense of teamwork and collaboration and increases productivity. Corporate Social Networking software can provide a way to reach out to all levels within...; Tags: SAP AG, social networking, network; Discussion threads 2009-11-04
Enterprise Geeks demo SAP ABAP server on iPhone: ABAP running on iphoneI read your blog a while back and was completely convinced until the end....haha...anyway I was searching the net today and came across an app that although does not run ABAP on phone, it does seem to run the actual SAPGUI on the iPhone, found it on...; Tags: Programming languages, Smart phones, Enterprise software, server, Apple iPhone, SAP AG; Discussion threads 2009-11-03
Figuring the value of software: Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...; Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-11-02
News to know: Droid; BlackBerry; Mac; Firefox fixes; SAP: Here are todayâ€™s notable headlines: Motorola Droid dominates. SAP, Microsoft and Apple are other headliners. by Larry Dignan; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Web Browsers, Handhelds, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2009-10-29
SAP regaining its mojo?: Will your incessant cheerleading for SAP ever end?You posted a blog on SAP's mojo returning on the day that SAP posted another HUGE sales decline of -31% for software? Where is your disclosure statement of what SAP is paying you travel and free entrance to conferences?; Tags: SAP AG; Discussion threads 2009-10-28
SAP: Enterprise software market 'difficult'; Emerging markets weak: SAP's third quarter was a mixed bag. Earnings were a touch better than expectations, but revenue and the outlook disappointed investors. Meanwhile, SAP said the software market showed "signs of stabilization," but remained difficult. by Larry Dignan; Tags: Enterprise Software, Emerging Market, SAP AG, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2009-10-28
SAP Q3: sales down, profit up: SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to â‚¬525 million ($787 mill) from â‚¬763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or â‚¬57 million...; Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-10-28
SAP regaining its mojo?: Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...; Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-10-27
SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance: SAP GRC Business ObjectsSAP is actively integrating Business objects into SAP GRC. Reporting gets much easier with Business ObjectsOneAccess-UserManager for SAPSAP Certified-Powered by Netweaverhttp://www.softsquare.biz/oneaccess/; Tags: Reporting, SAP AG, GRC; Discussion threads 2009-10-23
The flipside of SAPs recent success and a surprise: SAP GRCSAP R/3 gave companies better handle on their financial data. Now SAP GRC is helping then gain governance and compliance of their DataOneAccess-UserManager for SAPSAP Certified-Powered by Netweaverhttp://www.softsquare.biz/oneaccess/; Tags: Web services, Enterprise software, SAP AG, GRC; Discussion threads 2009-10-23
Future ERP: SAP has a huge install base and SAP can easily adopt to changes. OneAccess-UserManager for SAPSAP Certified-Powered by Netweaverhttp://www.softsquare.biz/oneaccess/; Tags: Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, SAP AG, ERP; Discussion threads 2009-10-23
The maintenance renewal landscape: Been doing this for years.Work for a non-profit, so unless its mission critical or has a high cost of replacement... its not going to get renewed.I think everyone should live by this rule. If they did, software maintenance would be much cheaper!SAP, Oracle very Different on Dependence on MaintenanceI'll...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Operational accounting, cloud computing, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., SaaS Model, revenue, software; Discussion threads 2009-10-23