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- Epicor Perspectives: the analyst view
- A thousand customers and 1,500 total attendees may be 20% down on past years but represents a good effort by Epicor to get the faithful out to hear the latest and greatest when compared with other vendor led events where attendance has been down 30-40%. ...
- Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- 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
- SAP to bounce?
- Larry Dignan pinged me to say the financial analysts are showing renewed interest in SAP with several positive comments on the likely outcome to its Q2 results, due for release on July, 29th: That take is a mixed bag in the things are less worse camp. The biggest argument...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Management, Finance, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- NetSuite attacks SAP: hype vs. reality
- NetSuite attacks SAP: hype vs. realityAppears to be going aroundThis seems to be going around this week. SAP did the same thing to Infor (http://www.mcsolutions.co.uk/article/17004/SAP-claims-customers-migrating-from-Infor-for-better-business-.aspx). I don't understand this tactic, maybe it is the economic situation making them feel they have to take the low-road and bad mouth the competition....
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, SAP AG, NetSuite Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
- Lemons into Lemonade â€" Business Suite 7
- (mid-press conference post - subject to update) SAP today announced its Business Suite 7 today. Here’s a set of capabilities that extend the core ERP solution set. Specifically, what BS7 does apparently, is to take some the lessons SAP learned from the expensive development of its Business...
- Tags: SAP AG, BS7, SOA Ability, BOBJ Functionality, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- News to know: Jobs and Apple; IE 8 patch due; Adobe; Windows 7 Beta 1
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Can you have Macworld without Jobs and Apple? We're going to find out Apple statement Techmeme Sam Diaz: What does Apple’s MacWorld...
- Tags: Job, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Data Centers, Security, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- SAP Business ByDesign Update
- Staying the Restrained Course Fellow ZDNet blogger, Dennis Howlett, and I were treated to a briefing by Jeff Stiles of SAP yesterday. The subject was SAP’s Business ByDesign product line. Business ByDesign is SAP’s software as a service SaaS or on-demand offering for the SMB marketplace. ...
- Tags: SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Smb/Sme, Product Development, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Marketing Research, Research & Development, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Is Wordpress 2.7 a metaphor for enterprise agile?
- Over at About UI, a couple of SAPpers make the point: Somehow we need to find the golden path enabling us to rapidly innovate on the UI layer of our software. Shipping these pieces of software around from system to system, from Vendor to Solution Integrator to Customer is...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Wordpress, Plug-in, Enterprise System, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-15
- Siebel 2.0 â€" A Year Later
- A year ago I predicted that, right about this time, Salesforce.com would start to look a little shabby, a whole lot shabbier than it indeed looks at this time. It was part of a polemic I started when I called Salesforce.com the next Siebel, and I didn’t necessarily mean in...
- Tags: Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Putting Workday on SAP's radar
- Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- SAP confirms Business ByDesign delay
- Updated: SAP on Wednesday confirmed a delay in its Business ByDesign software as a service suite. The company said: Since last September’s announcement of SAP Business ByDesign, the Company has been working closely with early customers and partners to validate and fine-tune the solution. As a...
- Tags: Euro, SAP AG, Data Model, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- SAP Business By Design likely to be delayed
- Sketchy reports coming out of Germany are saying that SAP's Business By Design is likely to be delayed. According to Handelsblatt: An SAP developer speaking to Handelsblatt claimed in German that ByDesign was suffering from performance issues and bugs that would delay general availability until perhaps the end of...
- Tags: SAP AG, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- A SaaSy SAP vs. Salesforce debate: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?
- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner dueled at the Churchill Club in a debate about the future of software and the generation gap couldn't be larger. Benioff brought the bluster, portrayed SAP as a dinosaur and prodded his much larger rival to develop in...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, SAP AG, Updates, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Customization: curse or blessing?
- At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...
- Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
- Update 2/16/08, 2:30PM EST: Nick Carr wrote a good post-mortem. So did Larry Dignan. Update 2/16/08, 11:00AM EST: Amazon reports the cause of the problem: Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing elevated levels of authenticated requests from multiple users in one of our...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., PST, Blogging, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Service Level Management, Web Services, Security, Internet, Emerging Technologies, It Operations, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Nick Carr's enterprise software fantasy land
- In a post titled, Michael Krigsman doesn't understand enterprise software, Nick Carr brings forth a series of nonsense arguments unsupported by the reality of how enterprise software is developed, purchased, used, and maintained. To begin, Nick makes the point: ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman lays in to...
- Tags: Nick Carr, User Interface, SAP AG, Nick, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- TomorrowNow in turmoil: quo vadis 3PM?
- When the news broke that several execs including CEO Andrew Nelson have been turfed out at TomorrowNow and the company might be up for sale, I can't say I was wholly surprised. Given the specifics of the lawsuit, senior heads had to roll (even though I personally believe they are...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Network Technology, Networking, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Oracle's Charles Phillips: Fusion on track and SaaS for all
- In a meeting with Enterprise Irregulars after his keynote at OpenWorld, Oracle President Charles Phillips discussed the future of Fusion, software-as-a-service SaaS, his notion of "acquired innovation" and other topics. Fusion is Oracle's next-generation suite of applications, built from the ground up on SOA principles. He was...
- Tags: Application, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Fusion, Multitenancy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Web Services, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- SAP's 100,000 customers by 2010: 'aspirational'
- During the launch of Business ByDesign, SAP said that it expects to achieve a run rate of adding 10,000 BBD customers a year by 2010. This raised questions about whether SAP will reach its previously stated target of 100,000 customers by 2010. I was concerned because it was always my...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Smb/Sme, Web Technology, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Sales, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
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