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SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confident

SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confidentAttendnace & Payroll ManagementGood postTime Attendnace & Payroll Automationhttp://www.lenvica.in

Tags: payroll solutions, Operational accounting, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?No supriseDennis,Early last summer I commented re BYD on your other blog:"I wonder if they are having trouble with the user interface?...It may be that that the time and cost of making SAP more user-friendly and flexible is making them think again about the...

Tags: SAP AG, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategy

Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategyyes, butyou heard some of the same comments I did at Sapphire. The CFO has the product on a tight leash in terms of qualifying new customers. They have old filters for a new computing paradigm. Not sure if they will ever find this model...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, Enterprise software, strategy, SAP AG, software-as-a-service, SAP Business byDesign SaaS strategy, SAP Business ByDesign

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

SAP keynote: Leo Apotheker's appeal for clarity

SAP keynote: Leo Apotheker's appeal for claritySAP Business ByDesign is approaching - slowly but approachingAs practice lead at one of the Early Parters in Germany, I cann assure you that SAP continues to build momentum for its ByDesign solution in six focus countries: US, Germany, UK, France, China and India,...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, SAP Business ByDesign

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

SAP Business ByDesign Update

SAP Business ByDesign UpdateTREX ClarificationBrian - always great talking with you and Dennis.I wanted to clarify one point in your post about TREX - it's an SAP innovation, brought to market 2 years ago and integral part of SAP Business ByDesign since day 1. At a high level it...

Tags: SAP Business ByDesign, SAP AG, SAP Business, SAP Business ByDesign Update

Discussion threads 2008-12-18

SAP's Business ByDesign: Explaining the Delays

SAP's Business ByDesign: Explaining the DelaysBusiness By Delay - You don't know, what you haven't experiencedPhil has a great post on the topic on his blog that makes the point that after validating the market, the are now acknowledging its harder than they thought. After spending nearly three years...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Phil, SAP AG, SAP Business ByDesign

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Business ByDesign: an Irregular verdict

After a long day and intense series of discussions with SAP executives, the Enterprise Irregulars parsed immediate impressions of Business ByDesign. The general mood was one of quiet approval for a product set that is, as the company claims, a complete on-demand offering. Our generally positive...

Tags: SAP AG, Downside, BBD, SAP Business ByDesign, Sales Force Management, Games, Channel Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-20

SAP Business ByDesign: buzzwords don't matter

SAP Business ByDesign: buzzwords don't matterSAP Taking Advantage of Their Own MistakesIt's ironic to me that a company like SAP, which helped create the market conditions (i.e., customer frustration) that led to the rapid adoption of the on-demand model, is trying to take advantage of those market conditions now. It...

Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., SAP AG, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business, buzzword, on-demand

Discussion threads 2007-09-19

SAP Business ByDesign: Why one customer bought

SAP Business ByDesign has been rolled out to a number of test customers. Several of these early adopters, including light airplane manufacturer, Stemme AG, were interviewed during the press conference where Business ByDesign was launched. Stemme AG's reason for being a test customer: SAP an SAP executive bought one...

Tags: SAP AG, SAP Business ByDesign, Stemme AG, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-19

Additional Resources

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

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

SaaS Customer Bill of Rights: right thing, right time

AG Customer Bill of Rights - SaaS - Live I'm not pimping this because Ray Wang and I happen to be collaborators or that I got a credit in the Altimeter Group report but because Ray and Jeremiah Owyang's SaaS Customer Bill of Rights is the right thing at...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-12

NetSuite's Zach Nelson on competition, cost, the Next Big Thing

Last week I met with Zach Nelson, CEO NetSuite in circumstances very similar to those when I recently met with SAP. There are obvious comparisons: SAP provided a hands on individual demonstration of Business ByDesign, NetSuite limited its demo to some pre-canned scenarios demonstrated by...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Smb/Sme, Branding, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-28

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

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

SAP unplugged: Vishal Sikka and John Schwarz on deck

Jeff Nolan and Vinnie Mirchandani have done a sterling job in reporting our meeting Vishal Sikka, SAP's CTO and John Schwarz, executive board member in charge of BusinessObjects. To my eternal shame, I was asleep for most of the meeting with Vishal having completely miscalculated the effects of jetlag, turning...

Tags: SAP AG, Leadership, Financial Planning, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?

As the soap opera that is SAP Business ByDesign rumbles on, I can't help but think of the opening lines in Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, ByD, Zinow, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Servers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-20

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

SAP: Is the worst over?

Analysts have been tripping over themselves trying to call the trough of demand for SAP applications. SAP detailed quote has been upgraded twice in two days. Bank of America-Merrill Lynch upgraded SAP to buy from neutral on Thursday given "the low expectation level." Simply put, business isn't...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Outsourcing, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-09

NetSuite vs. SAP ??? How Newton would see this contest

NetSuite vs. SAP ??? How Newton would see this contestCompetitionCompetition is certainly a good thing. That said, perhaps we can all learn a bit from Darwin rather than just focusing on diffuse motion that isn?t truly benefitting customers?.SAP is doing exactly what we?ve said we?d do, and we?re making...

Tags: NETWORKING, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-07-02