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- 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,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- 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,...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-10
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-09-10
- SAP's Shai Agassi on Oracle's 'folly' and the shift to services
- Shai Agassi, president of the Product and Technology Group and a member of the Executive Board at SAP AG, fielded questions from New York Times tech reporter John Markoff and the audience during an early morning Churchill Club event on Wednesday. We have a podcast of the interview, as well...
- Blog posts 2005-11-10
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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...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle’s recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- SAP, Oracle, Babies, and Wonks: Competition, American-style
- SAP as a company has always been risk-averse, even as it takes some risky steps. But its perhaps most risky step ever â€" the acquisition of TomorrowNow â€" in 2005, has apparently turned the already anodyne company into an almost non-competitive stupor, and frankly, it’s becoming a problem. ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- 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.") ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Enterprise Software at the Crossroads: Lost Execs and Lost Ground
- What’s up with the top enterprise software companies and their leadership? In the space of six months, Microsoft, SAP, and most recently Oracle, have lost their most visible executives in a rather abrupt fashion. While the reasoning for the departures is, on the surface, vastly different in each case, the...
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- WSJ: SAP struggles with globalization
- A little more than a year ago I was discussing a story I wrote with SAP executives. They were peeved that I referred to SAP as a German company while failing to note the headquarters of a rival I mentioned. That sticking point--which was...
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- SAP Sapphire gets underway
- This week I am in Atlanta for SAPs Sapphire conference, joined by a large international press contingent, the blogger corps and 15,000 partners and customers ready to hear the latest SAP revelations. So far, not much news to report, but some details on the $500 million plus investment in new...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- 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....
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- SAP under the microscope post Agassi
- The departure of SAPs Shai Agassi may not change much for the enterprise software companys daily operations, but the company is likely to be examined more closely now that its software architect is gone. On Wednesday, SAP announced that Agassi...
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Podcast: Intel's Nehalem, MS Communicator 7, multi-headed apps and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we talk about Intels next generation 45-nanometer Nehalem chip, which includes an integrated memory controller a la AMDs processor architecture, and Microsofts Communicator 7 suite, which David thinks is a good reason to buy into the Windows platform. We also discuss how...
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Shai Agassi out at SAP
- Shai Agassi out at SAPTruth = FUD?No, Oracle has accused SAP of theft, no FUD involved.Congratulations Shai"Agassi is leaving to focus on alternative energy and climate change."Here is one executive who should be heartily congratulated for realising that there are more important things in life than ERP software. Well done!Not...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
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