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- A $1 billion plan for car-charging network
- BetterPlace founder Shai Agassi plans $1 billion network for electric charging network in California. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Battery, Bay Area, BP Plc, Car, Engineering, Network, Richard Koman, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- 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
- Shai Agassi: Jobless and blogging
- Shai Agassi: Jobless and bloggingAgassi should better jump on the Linux wagonrather than wasting his time with vehicles and pollution.Yeah, Linux is SOOOO much more importantthan saving the planet.why jump on a wagon that is not movingTechnical savvy people know, *nix offering is not all that it is pumped up...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Shai Agassi, Jobless, blogging
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- 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 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...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, SAP AG, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- 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...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, Shai Agassi, SAP AG, Congratulations Shai
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Shai Agassi out at SAP
- SAP said Shai Agassi is stepping down as head of the companys product and technology group. Agassis departure was by "mutual agreement with the company."Agassi is leaving to focus on alternative energy and climate change. He was one of the front runners to replace CEO Henning Kagermann. The Wall Street...
- Tags: Web services, SAP AG, Shai Agassi, Agassis, Agassis departure
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- SAP in the Post-Agassi Era
- Shai Agassi has resigned from SAP amidst a massive reorganization of the company. It’s in many ways a sad day for SAP, and, if you’re spinning the news from the perspective of SAP’s competitors, it may or may not be a great day to be lining up to eat SAP’s...
- Tags: SAP AG, SAP&rsquo, s, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- SAP's recipe for staying on top
- SAP CEO Henning Kagermann laid out his company’s long term strategy this morning at an event for developers this morning. With an addressable market of $70 billion in 2010, SAP hopes to have 50 percent of its revenues from new products, 100,000 customers (up from 32,000 today) and 40 to...
- Tags: SAP AG, Henning Kagermann
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- No trash talking from SAP's Agassi
- SAP executive board member and product & technology head Shai Agassi gave the NetWeaver pitch to the Software 2006 crowd this morning, and dropped some hints about solutions for small business that he said could be set up in one minute. Agassi was quick to point out the SAP's...
- Tags: SAP AG, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- SAP rolls out 'hybrid' CRM
- SAP rolled out today its CRM on-demand application, focusing on large and mid-sized companies, for managing sales, service and marketing. The company calls it 'hyrbid' CRM, with subscription-based licensing. SAP's approach involves both more sophisticated traditional and the more fleet hosted services, bridging between on demand and on premise. SAP...
- Tags: SAP AG, CRM
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- Rhetoric vs. Reality at SAP
- Shai Agassi says he was misquoted. Assuming this is true, I made a mistake. But none of that really matters. What matters in technology, as in business and as in politics, is not what you say, but what you do.What has SAP done for open source? Has it contributed code...
- Tags: open source, Shai Agassi, SAP AG
- Blog posts 2005-11-14
- SAP's Agassi explains his open source stance
- SAP's Shai Agassi has been taking heat from the press and blogosphere over his comments on open source made during his interview (you can listen to the podcast here--the open source section starts at 35:34) with New York Times reporter John Markoff at a Churchill Club event on Tuesday. He...
- Tags: SAP AG, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2005-11-11
- SAP's Shai Agassi: Unplugged
- SAP's Shai Agassi: UnpluggedPlease mark storys with audioDan, it would be great if ZDNet could put a little mark an audio graphic perhaps next to links to this kind of stories. That way one would be "prepared" to listen to the podcast when the page loads.In a nearby room I...
- Tags: Shai Agassi, SAP AG, Shai
- Discussion threads 2005-11-11
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