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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

Oracle blogs--an attention free zone

Guest Post: My fellow Enterprise Irregular, drama critic of the enterprise software industry, advisor to the software developers and marketers and inveterate blogger Dennis Howlett responds to a post by Oracle Technology Networks editor-in-chief complaining that his company doesnt get enough love from the blogosphere crowd. Justin Kestelyn, Oracle Technology...

Tags: SAP, Oracle, General, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Additional Resources

Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners

Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-14

What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?

What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?SAP should continue to kick Microsofts ERP butt!Time for MS to go down. MS purchased Great Plains low level ERP and Navision mid level ERP and just painted pretty pictures on the interface.SAP can with my help add real business support to...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Financial services, SAP AG, ERP

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Has SAP hog tied itself on maintenance?

Has SAP hog tied itself on maintenance?It's quite sad, really.SAP needs to grab superior implementation consultants like me to show their customers (resellers/partners) HOW to best implement the software. The REAL trouble is too few partners want to learn WHAT the product really does and HOW to make it work...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-03-17

Has SAP hog tied itself on maintenance?

I've spent the last hour discussing SAP Solution Manager and Run SAP with Jon Reed. Jon's a fellow SAP Mentor and expert on the skill sets needed to make SAP implementations successful. We were discussing this post where he says: Taken together, Run SAP and Solution Manager are the...

Tags: SAP AG, Jon, Productivity, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-17

The certification timebomb

I wish I had been a fly on the wall at yesterday's meeting between some of my Irregular colleagues and SAP's Leo Apotheker. I've been in some of those 'tense' meetings. While it was ongoing, Larry Skyped me to say that Vinnie Mirchandani was giving Leo a tough time. ...

Tags: Certification, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Devil, Allerton, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-05

SAP cans SAPPHIRE Europe

SAP cans SAPPHIRE EuropeSapphireMore accurately, it is SAP's premier sales event. SAP runs that whole conference at a loss so that it can invite Execs and close deals. They must think that the market is going to be so tight that not even a flashy conference will help...

Tags: SAP AG, SAPPHIRE Europe

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

Women and leadership

Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Demo Jam Live: SAP meets enterprise 2.0; The ROI of spell check

Welcome to Demo Jam Live--SAP's developer fest meets American Idol. Here's how it works: Techies submitted proposals for their newfangled enterprise creations and the list was whittled down to a few key finalists. These finalists will then duke it out for the best demo of the night--as judged by the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Data Integrity, ROI, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, SAP Data, Applause-o-meter, Panaya, Roi/Tco, Programming Languages, Asset Management, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-09

SAP: show the love your customers crave

Jim Spath of Black and Decker, an SAP Mentor in the SAP Community and a volunteer on the American SAP User Group ASUG posts this video see above in advance of TechEd 2008. He asks: "If companies make positive contributions, answer other people's questions on SDN, would they be enabled...

Tags: SAP AG, Free Trade, Corporate Communications, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance Business

Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance BusinessThere is a communityJosh - I'm not sure I follow you re: community. There have been industry groups for years, there is a 1.5 million developer community and a further 300K BPX'ers in an extension to the existing SAP Community Network. There's SUGEN plus...

Tags: SAP AG, Friendly Fire

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

The changing SAP culture

The changing SAP cultureHow will SAP attract developer talent?The #1 issue I see with SAP, as an outsider, is that it is a closed, proprietary system with which it is impossible to get experience. People who implement SAP scream and scream for developer talent who can make it sing and...

Tags: Programming languages, Enterprise software, SAP AG, ABAP

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

UBS Accounting Software 9.2SR3 (Windows)

UBS Accounting is the core product at UBS Corporation Sdn. Bhd. Developed in 1990, it has now become a household name in computerized accounting software, with more than 110,000 installations in Malaysia. Its simplicity to use and comprehensive reports has prompted many institutes of higher learning such as university, college...

Tags: Asset, Accounting, Microsoft Windows, UBS AG, PC Mart Sdn Bhd, UBS Accounting, UBS Assets Register, Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance

Software downloads 2008-04-22

The end of software...

...as you know it. Right now I'm falling over startup vendors vying for attention in the so-called 'social software' space. The fact enterprise people hate the term doesn't seem to bother those who are bypassing IT as they sell into the marketing departments of companies at departmental budget prices. But...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-19

The post Davenport-McAfee slugfest: the Twits speak

The post Davenport-McAfee slugfest: the Twits speakThe stifiling grip of corporate oligarchiesI can understand the fear. (democratized content creation = the deluge) As I wrote previously (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/6968) I believe the advent of the printing press Guttenberg represented a content creation/knowledge revolution. It democratized the written word and lifted...

Tags: TWITS, Davenport Co., McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Twitter, Qik, Mogulus: you're all dead

...as far as enterprise land is concerned. My Enterprise Irregulars colleagues have been debating the merits of some shiny new toys like Twitter, Qik and Mogulus. The conversation kicked off with the extremely smart Jason Corsello: Maybe this is Scoble specific but I just don't get it. ...

Tags: Quality, Twitter, Scoble, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Malaysia Freight Logistics Provider, Kintetsu, Enhances Internal Efficiencies With Enterprise-Wide IP Virtual Private Network

Established freight logistics provider, Kintetsu Integrated Air Services Sdn Bhd Kintetsu, is keen to harness the latest IT technologies to achieve greater internal efficiency and to enjoy economies of scale. Kintetsu turns to Datacraft to design and implement an Internet Protocol IP-based enterprise network that would address its network infrastructure...

Tags: Logistics Provider, Network Infrastructure, Network, Logistics, Dimension Data, Security Management, Supply Chain, Network Administration, Security, Business Operations, Networking

Case studies 2008-01-03

3Com Delivers a One Network, Many Services Solution for One World Hotel

One World Hotel's owners, the Bandar Utama Development Sdn. Bhd., which also owns the adjoining 1 Utama Shopping Centre, believed firmly that their network infrastructure needed to be strong and flexible so that it would enable new, evolving applications without the expense and business disruption of rewiring or recabling. As...

Tags: Network, 3Com Corp., VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2008-01-01

Customer intimacy not strong at SAP

Just as my fellow Irregulars are getting ready to tackle SAP executives at the company's 'Influencers' Summit' in Boston comes a mea culpa from Steve Rogers, SAP UK's managing director. According to a report from Stuart Lauchlan, Rogers said at the company's recent UK user conference: "When I joined,...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Product Marketing, Business Operations, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-04