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- SAP and Oracle going head to head
- This week gives SAP and Oracle watchers an opportunity to see these giants go head to head in the entertainment stakes as each holds major conferences. SAP is in Phoenix with TechEd while Oracle takes over the Moscone Center and a lot of the surrounding area...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- JD Edwards certification woes
- Andy Klee takes a stern look at JD Edwards certification: I'm here to tell you that the JDE certification program is on life support. It barely exists. JDE employees cannot be certified, and neither can JDE clients. Only business partners are eligible to take certification exams. ...
- Tags: Certification, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Andy Klee, EBS Certification, JDE World, JDE Customer, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- SAP revenues slump, in line with analyst expectations, bottom line up
- SAP has revealed its Q2 2009 numbers and as widely predicted, top line software revenues are off 40%, down from €898 million in 2008 to €543 million this time around. Software services, support and maintenance was also off, 5% from €2,061 million to €1,953 million. That left total revenues down...
- Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Some welcome competition in mid-market ERP
- Sage's X3 - Does it need big systems integrators as part of its market success? A few days ago, several members of the analyst and press community were given a briefing on Sage’s high-end ERP product, X3. X3 was acquired by Sage three years ago and...
- Tags: Accounting, Reseller, ERP, Channel Partner, Sage, X3, X3 Product Line, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- The great certification debate
- Last year at SAP TechEd, Vinnie Mirchandani, Mike Krigsman and I spent an entertaining 15 minutes verbally abusing challenging Zia Yusef, who runs SAP's ecosystem of developers, SIs and partners. The thrust of our argument was that SAP's inability to control its ecosystem means that projects often run over time...
- Tags: Certification, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First
- Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well. I guess they aren't really all that surprising. But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...
- Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1
- We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post. Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Vision, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sales, CRM, SDN, BPX, Marketing Functionality, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)
- With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...
- Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats up
- More SaaS movement from a major software vendor CA yesterday announced the availability of two software as a service SaaS solutions. One is targeted for the IT management space while the other is oriented around governance. CA is taking its on-premise enterprise...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Solution, Information Technology, On-demand, Computer Associates International Inc., PPM, GRC, Virtualization Technology, PPM Solution, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Tech financing: Are defaults becoming a worry?
- The financiers of technology projects are seeing defaults rise and that ups the ante for customers looking for credit and the vendors extending loans. The Wall Street Journal connects the dots. In September, 0.86 percent of equipment loans--that includes office gear--were written off. That's...
- Tags: Financing, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance Business
- You’d think, based on the timing, that Oracle was trying to deliberately make a PR run on what was looking like, and turned out to be, some pretty good news for SAP. The day before SAP’s nice looking Q2 earnings call, Oracle upped the ante in its lawsuit against SAP...
- Tags: Maintenance, Customer, SAP AG, Roi/Tco, Public Relations, Software Upgrade, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Is SAP's weakness its real strength?
- Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element within SAP that was in evidence during Shai Agassi's tenure. For me, Merritt charaterizes the public face of fracture I...
- Tags: SAP AG, Merritt, Phil, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Leadership, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- SocialText moves the collaboration goalposts
-  I caught up with Ross Mayfield, president of SocialText today to discuss its new products, SocialText Dashboard and SocialText People. Ross believes that wikis are the foundation for collaboration within the enterprise and that Dashboard and People represent the next iteration in the way people will...
- Tags: Collaboration, Socialtext, Ross, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Wiki, Social Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- News to know: Dell's tablet PC; SAP on VMware; Office Live Workspace; The transistor's birthday
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme. VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier? David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard's iSCSI support News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Tablet PC, Transistor, NetSuite Inc., Microsoft Office Live, SAP AG, VMware Inc., Tablet, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Developing a Successful Channel Partner/Vendor Relationship
- Apollo Consulting was founded in 1998 to help companies purchase and implement business software quickly and effectively. Apollo already had a strong presence within the CPA community as a result of concentrating on financial-focused applications. Recognizing this, SAP helped Apollo become an active participant in SAP's CPA advisor program. The...
- Tags: SAP AG, Advisor, Certified Public Accountant, Investment, Finance
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Leapfrogging Dell, Everdream and salesforce.com
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Josh Greenbaum is not a fan of salesforce.com. He believes the company is over-hyped, egomanical and expensive for partners. In contrast, Everdream, recently acquired by Dell, is a model SaaS company for partners, he said. In his recent blog post Josh wrote: .....I believe...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Platform, Everdream Corp., Josh Greenbaum, Sales Force Management, Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Continuous Availability for SAP Perfect Plant Environments: Lower the Costs and Complexities of Your Plant Infrastructure and Improve the Decision-Making Process
- SAP AG has taken an innovative business approach to delivering manufacturing integration and intelligence to the shop floor through a program called the Perfect Plant. The Perfect Plant program brings together best-of-breed solution partners - creating a technology ecosystem that delivers the functionality, integration, data synchronization, and certified platforms that...
- Tags: Stratus Technologies, Environment, Decision-making, SAP AG, Manufacturing
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Microsoft recruits vendors to integrate Office into business apps
- Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to get more independent software vendors to integrate Office front-ends with their own business applications.There already exist a number of these Office-front-ended applications -- which Microsoft has christened Office Business Applications, or OBAs. Some are commercial applications, like the jointly developed Microsoft-SAP Duet. Others...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, Resellers, SharePoint Server, Systems integrators
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- 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
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