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- 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...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise Software, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Conference, Departure, Satya Nadella, Dynamics, Shai, Kirill, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- The Post-Shai Era II
- On the plane home from SAP’s Sapphire conference, reflecting on the overall impact of the announcements and the gestalt of the conference, it’s easy to conclude that SAP will survive Shai Agassi’s abrupt departure. It may be hard on the press – who seemed to be craving the acerbic sound...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- 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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- WizzFit Add-on for Publisher 1.2 (Windows)
- This Microsoft Publisher add-on enables you to do a content aware image resizing. You can crop and scale a picture shape without loosing the important message in it. You can as well easily remove object in your picture without affecting the background. Effective resizing of images should not only use...
- Tags: Algorithm, Microsoft Windows, Image, WizzFit, Engineering
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- SAP's John Wookey: the task ahead
- Phil Wainewright has provided a first take on John Wookey, SAP executive VP's saas strategy session at SIIA Europe. As Wookey outlined the strategy, I could not help but feel 'about time.' SAP has been dancing around the whole saas/on-demand topic for some time. On the one hand it came...
- Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, Frictionless Commerce, Phil Wainewright, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?
- Ed Whitacre. The quintessential amalgator of companies. He's going to save GM, as its new chairman? Don't get me wrong. He did a pretty amazing job with the hand he was played in telecommunications. He took the smallest of the Baby Bells,...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Southwestern Bell, General Motors Corp., Internet, Operational Planning, Telephony, Business Operations, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
- One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Argument, Tom, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Forget MacWorld and the keynote. Jobs as Obama's CTO? No.
- So Mike Contaxis at MacSoda had the "real reason" why Steve Jobs was not going to give the keynote today at MacWorld. This was before Jobs' disclosure of the "hormonal imbalance" that his medical team has determined is leading him to lose weight. Jobs is set to...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, CTO, Macworld, Obama, Internet, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- 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
- 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
- Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?
- This week's Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a 'Unified National Smart Grid': a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the...
- Tags: Web, Vision, Al Gore, Grid, Web 2.0 Summit, Michael Wesch, Web 2.0, Transportation, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- 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
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Navigate phone trees automatically
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Navigate phone trees automaticallyPhone TreesWhat Shai Berger is hoping to accomplish with Fonolo is quite impressive and should help greatly in dealing with phone tree menus or IVRs. This has been an area of interest for us for quite some time and we have close to...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), phone tree, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-08-02
- 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...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- 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...
- 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
- 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
- Photoshop plug-in developer onOne acquires Liquid Resize technology.
- Calling all digital photographers: If you haven't seen this video from Siggraph 2007, you must check it out. Ignore the monotonous voice of the narrator--he doesn't sound nearly as excited as he should be--and watch his demo of "Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing" presented by Shai Avidan and Ariel...
- Tags: Developer, Adobe PhotoShop, Plug-in, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- 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. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Problem, SAP AG, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- 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.") ...
- 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
- Shai no longer shy about green-tech battery venture
- Haven't had a chance to talk to this company myself, but thought it was worth pointing out this post from Michael Kanellos on CNET News.com about a new green car venture called Project Better Place. What's got Silicon Valley all atwitter is partly who's at the helm:...
- Tags: Venture, Battery, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
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