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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-11
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- 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'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. ...
- 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...
- 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 – the acquisition of TomorrowNow – 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
- 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:...
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- 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 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
- No more distorted faces with content-aware resizing
- If you hadn't seen the new image scaling techniques of Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir yet, take a look at the video above and be impressed. I was already impressed with it two weeks ago when I first saw it but the more I look at it the more I like...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- 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
- News to know: Apple's Leopard delay; DHS; DNS flaw; Vonage; SANs
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Apple delays Leopard; blame the iPhone. Apple puts a leash on its Leopard. Jason OGradys Apple Core. Mary Jo Foley: Leopard delay: ‘Cupertino, start your photocopiers!’ Techmeme discussion.Cybercrooks exploiting new Windows DNS flaw. George Ou.Homeland Security finally transcends F cybersecurity grade. The full report card.IRS trudges on...
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- 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...
- 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....
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
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