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- Shai Agassi trades SOA for electric cars
- Shai Agassi trades SOA for electric carsthis is cool...But as I'm reading it, it looks expensive too. I hope there's a fuel saver magnetic tool that can be budget-friendly and got this specs too. The statement are fierce and really worth-waiting.RE: Shai Agassi trades SOA for electric carsBut as I'm...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Shai Agassi, electric car, SOA, car
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Shai Agassi trades SOA for electric cars
- Former SAP executive, Shai Agassi has resurfaced as a potential 21st century day Henry Ford, but with a green intent. He is moving from ERP and SOA to electric cars with his for-profit Project Better Place. And, he has raised more that $200 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners, Israel Corporation,...
- Tags: Car, SOA, Shai Agassi, Project Better Place, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- SAP's Shai Agassi: Rewriting the book on business software
- Shai Agassi, president of SAP's Product and Technology Group, came to our CNET offices last week to meet with News.com reporters and myself. For the last few years Agassi, and his army of 12,000 developers, has been engineering a complete overhaul of SAP's ERP applications and creating NetWeaver, a service-oriented...
- Tags: SAP AG, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2006-09-10
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- SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?
- SAP executed the beginning of a well-orchestrated and otherwise somewhat boring and boring is good management transition with the much-expected elevation of co-CEO Leo Apotheker to the more important title of heir-apparent. In the process, Henning Kagermann assumed the title of retiree-in-waiting, and all was good with the world. ...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Force Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- SAP: there are two paths you can go by
- Is SAP the Led Zeppelin of the IT world? When it comes to pursuing SOA, SAP is now delivering a Led Zeppelin-ish message: Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but there's still time to change the road you're on... (From "Stairway to Heaven.") ...
- Tags: SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, ERP, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Software, Emerging Technologies, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign
- Peter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...
- Tags: Tenant, mySAP, Database, Peter Zencke, Customer, SAP AG, Automation, Business ByDesign, DF, PZ, Storage, AJAX, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle, NetSuite, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Hasso Plattner outlines SAP's software vision
- Over 35 years since co-founding SAP, Hasso Plattner has been seeking to transform business software. Speaking at SAP annual Sapphire conference in Atlanta, Plattner gave a seminar on next-generation software, in which he detailed many of the main principles behind the companys next-generation product A1S business suite, without mentioning the...
- Tags: IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Shai Agassi: Jobless and blogging
- After leaving leaving SAP abruptly last month, deciding not to wait many more years before taking on the reins of the company, Shai Agassi has not taken refuge in a cave or disappeared into the Silicon Valley void--he is blogging and plans to focus on climate change and green technologies....
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, IT Management, General, ERP, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- SAP: Opportunities lost?
- I developed a spark of admiration and foresaw vast opportunity when SAP embraced SOA at the Boston Sapphire event two years ago. But the departure of Shai Agassi, president of SAP’s product and technology group and architect of SAP’s NetWeaver software, calls into question whether SAP will now hunker down...
- Tags: Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SAP AG, software
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- SAP CEO Stays Put for the Right Reasons
- Its easy to ponder what a German supervisory board is thinking from several thousand miles away, and more than one of my fellow bloggers has speculated that Henning Kagermanns tenure was extended mostly because there was no one to succeed him. Thats kind of a "glass-half-empty" view of the situation,...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Reuse, redundancy and the chasm 2.0
- Reuse has been a constant and yet elusive goal throughout the history of software. Today its a key part of the argument for adopting SOA, SaaS and Web 2.0. But I have a feeling that people approach it with one of two contrasting mindsets, only one of which is destined...
- Tags: SAP, Salesforce.com, Ecosystems, Web 2.0, Marketplaces, Development, mindset
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- SAP's Succession Debate: To Soon To Tell
- The enterprise software collective subconscious is working hard trying to figure out what will happen when SAPs top management faces some forthcoming deadlines about who is to succeed CEO Henning Kagermann in coming years. Sitting in a Berkeley coffee shop yesterday with two European business reporters, the Kagermann question came...
- Tags: Uncategorized, SAP AG, Henning Kagermann
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- The Game of Leapfrog, SAP Style
- SAPs fourth analyst conference has come and gone, and my fellow bloggers (Farber, Nolan, Howlett, among others) have already weighed in extensively on the medium and the message that will guide SAP into the new year. Ill try another tack -- the venerable second-day lead, aka the round-up article written...
- Tags: SAP AG, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- SAP promises to deliver 'Big SOA' -- then what?
- ZDNet blogging colleague Dan Farber recently spoke with Shai Agassi, president of SAPs product and technology group, about SAPs emerging SOA strategy, who promised that SAP would be leading the enterprise SOA market by the end of 2007. SAP will be able to move thousands of customers to...
- Tags: SOA, SAP AG, Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- SAP going after mid-market with new ERP suite
- During his keynote at SAPs fourth annual analyst summit, Products & Technology Group President Shai Agassi shed some light on the companys strategy for addressing the mid-market, firms with $100 to $200 million in revenue and 100 to 2499 employees. In mid-2007, the company is expected to release a new...
- Tags: Shai Agassi, SAP AG, Web Technology, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007
- Following SAP CEO Henning Kagermann’s presentation at SAPs fourth annual analyst summit, Shai Agassi, president of the Product & Technology Group, laid out the companys technical vision. He believes that SAP is in position to lead the chasm-crossing from the client-server model to enterprise SOA, and become the dominant...
- Tags: Dan Farber, General, IT Management, SAP AG, Shai Agassi, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- From SAP TechEd to Oracle OpenWorld
- On the eve of Oracle dominating the headlines with its annual mega Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco (including blocking off Howard Street in front of the Moscone Center, which I cant remember any other company pulling off), fellow Enterprise Irregular David Terrar at left provides an extensive report from...
- Tags: SAP AG, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-21
- SAP's Shai Agassi: Rewriting the book on business software
- SAP's Shai Agassi: Rewriting the book on business softwareSAP Users in daily painIt's always interesting to see developments in the database software that I am forced to use on a daily basis. Hopefully it will lead to something useful to me and my coworkers. From what I understand,...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, business software, software, Shai Agassi, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2006-09-10
- What lies ahead for SAP
- SAP: SOA isn't 'just a cool XML technology'Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, speaks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about the next level of innovation for the company and why he thinks it's ahead of the game.
- Tags: SAP AG
- Videos 2006-09-08
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