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SAP Account Management for Banking: Measurements of IBM eServer zSeries DB Server With Application Server Using TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server and DB2 for z/OS V8

Core banking is crucial to all commercial banks. Historically, it was one of the first parts of a banking operation to be automated with computers. Not only is it crucial to the bank's business, but it generally has the highest processing volumes and resource requirements and has extremely high availability...

Tags: Application Server, Account Management, IBM eServer, SAP AG, IBM z/OS, IBM eServer zSeries, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Core Banking, SAP AM, Banking, Mainframes, Servers, Financial Services, Hardware

White papers 2005-02-11

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SAP Users start to flex their muscles

Ray WangStill wondering if Ray Wang has ever said anything positive about SAP. I am sure he has at one point in his career. Based on his comments, SAP should probably close up shop. Dennis, thanks for providing some balance. RE: SAP Users start to flex...

Tags: Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, Strategy, BS7, SAP AG, Ray

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

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

Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"

RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...

Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

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

SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services

Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...

Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-30

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...

Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Two Views of the Software Market

SAP Automation Tools will ProsperBusinesses are looking for Automation tools which can increase their productivity and bottom lineOneAccess-UserManager for SAPSAP Certified-Powered by Netweaverhttp://www.softsquare.biz/oneaccess/So what!This is not new in any way. I am so sick of hearing how social media is changing things. Structured and unstructured data has been around for...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Web services, software, Businesses

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Enterprise Advocates launches; Targets IT buyers

A band of analysts and industry experts have formed Enterprise Advocates, an advisory group geared to the buy side of the information technology equation. The group, which includes ZDNet's Dennis Howlett and Oliver Marks, is a timely addition to the tech buying equation. In addition to Howlett...

Tags: Roster, Information Technology, Webinar, Analyst, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-06

SAP's feet put to the fire

Helmuth Gumbel, ex-Gartner and generally sharp chap has opened a blog. Who's Helmuth you might think? I've known him maybe 6-7 years and he's always been one of those shadowy types who prefers to keep away from the limelight. Even so, he knows his SAP-stuff like very few others and...

Tags: SAP AG, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Siemens cans SAP support

Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Siemens plans to ditch SAP for its ERP support. The story goes that Siemens had become fatigued with the situation. A recent heavy hint should have come from Siemens signing off a massive deal with SuccessFactors. A report in...

Tags: Siemens AG, Customer, SAP AG, Ray Wang, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-12

SAP and SME's: an update

I've just returned from spending a day immersed in SAP at a London hotel with European and South African SME customers, channel partners and the Business ByDesign team. It's been fascinating. While the focus was on ByDesign, I met with All-In-One customers. It provided a useful...

Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Customer, SAP AG, McDermott, Smb/Sme, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-11

EU right to investigate Oracle's MySQL buy

Devaluation of intellectual propertyYou said: "And there are many who believe that ?free? software undermines the value of intellectual property."Of course if does. It is not a question of "believing", it is a fact. But so what? Intellectual property is devalued all the time when something better comes along -...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing

Interesting......a guy who has no problem violating copyrights complaining about a lack of ethics.Carl RapsonSPAM on Twitter!!! Say it isn't so!!Why is this worthy of a ZDNET blog entry. Is your next entry going to be about how you hate to get those EMail's that say "You've Won $15,000,000" or...

Tags: Spam, E-mail, Twitter Inc., Twitter spamming, BAD ETHICS, spamming

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Enterprise 2.0: what a crock

Enterprise 2.0 is a label, not a revolutionThe key is one's definition of Enterprise 2.0.If one defines E2.0 as a revolution in the way people do business, of course it's a crock. There is rarely anything new under the sun in the world of management, and technology certainly isn't...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, E2.0, crock

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Packaged software, an accident of history

"government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

When Consultancies Feel the Pain of Recession

Customer base I wonder if what sort of granularity they can break this into to determine what is going on. If this consultant company is closely linked to SAP, then wouldn't the backlash that hit SAP also be present here? SAP dropped a lot of customers last year...

Tags: Outsourcing, recession, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-08-13