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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...
- 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
- SAP to shut down TomorrowNow; Oracle gets its sacrifice
- SAP's purchase of TomorrowNow in 2005 sounded like a great idea: Undercut Oracle on support and squeeze your biggest rival. And then came Oracle's lawsuit. SAP said Monday that it will wind down the operations of TomorrowNow, which provided third party support for Oracle applications. In a...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Pricing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- TomorrowNow in turmoil: quo vadis 3PM?
- TomorrowNow in turmoil: quo vadis 3PM?3PM would disappear......if sw vendors accepted their customer bases fall in to a bell curve and one price fits all pricing for maintenance does not work...as I mentioned in my note you reference and proposed to Oraclewe need tiered maintenance pricing " like 10% for...
- Tags: Pricing, TomorrowNow, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- News to know: Firefox 3 coming; TomorrowNow shakeup; HP; Kindle
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 Beta 1 to be released. Larry Dignan: SAP: TomorrowNow for sale, execs resign. Dennis Howlett: TomorrowNow in turmoil: quo vadis 3PM? Ed Bott: Are you prepared for holiday PC repairs? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: PCs - How...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mainsoft, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., TomorrowNow, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- TomorrowNow in turmoil: quo vadis 3PM?
- When the news broke that several execs including CEO Andrew Nelson have been turfed out at TomorrowNow and the company might be up for sale, I can't say I was wholly surprised. Given the specifics of the lawsuit, senior heads had to roll (even though I personally believe they are...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Network Technology, Networking, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- SAP: TomorrowNow for sale, execs resign
- SAP said several TomorrowNow executives have left the company and the software giant is mulling over its options for the unit--including a possible sale. SAP's TomorrowNow unit has been the subject of a lawsuit launched by Oracle. Anecdotal reports from analysts indicate that TomorrowNow may be having some trouble...
- Tags: SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Team Management, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Are third party Oracle support providers losing momentum?
- Oracle's lawsuit against SAP and its TomorrowNow unit may be paying off for the company. A Wall Street research firm argues that TomorrowNow and Rimini Street are losing momentum. According to Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research, his research indicates that TomorrowNow and Rimini Street are losing...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- My Favorite Highlights from the Oracle Suit, Or Why There's A Tomorrow for TomorrowNow
- My Favorite Highlights from the Oracle Suit, Or Why There's A Tomorrow for TomorrowNowSucks to be wrong eh?NT
- Tags: TomorrowNow, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite's IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software
- A response from SAP in the Oracle vs. SAP lawsuit and NetSuite files for an IPO. Two seemingly disconnected events trickled down through the technosphere during 4th of July week, and, having been blissfully disconnected myself for much of the week, I came back with a mission to try to...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- SAP's chief looks to new day after TomorrowNow
- SAP's chief looks to new day after TomorrowNowAlbert van Wissen Exposed; Enron-styleJust a cursory review by a US citizen demonstrates how this is going down Enron-style. First look at finance. Albert van Wissen is responsible for SAP's worldwide standards involving profitability. He joined TomorrowNow from SAP as Global Chief Financial...
- Tags: TomorrowNow, PeopleSoft Inc., SAP AG, Albert, Washington State
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- SAP acknowledges inappropriate downloads by TomorrowNow in response to Oracle suit
- SAP acknowledges inappropriate downloads by TomorrowNow in response to Oracle suitWhat does chump change have to do with it? nt.SAP is going to write a very large check.As they well should...A firewall prevents access?Interesting. I guess that means TomorrowNow's customers can'taccess TomorrowNow web-sites, support systems ( because TomorrowNow has...
- Tags: Firewalls, firewall, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow
- Discussion threads 2007-07-03
- SAP acknowledges inappropriate downloads by TomorrowNow in response to Oracle suit
- SAP responded to rival Oracle's lawsuit tonight (at 8:00 AM in SAP's Walldorf, Germany headquarters), just ahead of the July 2 PST filing deadline. In the filing SAP said that its TomorrowNow business unit inappropriately downloaded some Oracle software, but SAP had no access to the "inappropriately" downloaded code.SAP...
- Tags: SAP, Oracle, Legal, ERP
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- My Favorite Highlights from the Oracle Suit, Or Why There's A Tomorrow for TomorrowNow
- Okay, Ive had another day to read the suit, and Im convinced more than ever that Oracle has no case against SAP and TomorrowNow, at least as constituted in the complaint as I read it. There may have been rogue operators doing unsanctioned downloads, but the case as it is...
- Tags: TomorrowNow, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- The lawsuit As barometer: SAP finally scores big with TomorrowNow
- The lawsuit As barometer: SAP finally scores big with TomorrowNowYou miss the pointHere's the issue - SAP TN used Oracle Client User/passwords to access the Oracle Support and Knowledge Bases - to do competetive support on Oracle ProductsSAP TN Directly downloaded Access the Oracle Internal Resources from 'traceable' SAP TN...
- Tags: Real estate, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., SAP TN, TomorrowNow
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
- The Lawsuit As Barometer: SAP Finally Scores Big with TomorrowNow
- Todays announcement that Oracle is suing SAP for allegedly using its TomorrowNow subsidiary to steal software code and other nasties highlights the effectiveness with which TomorrowNow is hitting Oracle where it hurts: right in the old maintenance fee. The lawsuit claims that SAP systematically stole software as part of a...
- Tags: TomorrowNow, Oracle Corp., SAP AG
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
Additional Resources
- Siemens cans SAP support
- Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Siemens plans to ditch SAP for its ERP support. The story goes that Siemens had become fatigued with the situation. A recent heavy hint should have come from Siemens signing off a massive deal with SuccessFactors. A report in...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Customer, SAP AG, Ray Wang, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-12
- SAP's goose gander theory
- Earlier today the Twitterverse had a minor eruption when Ray Wang of Forrester sent out the following messages: Hearing from SAP customers that there are new clauses that will force customers to commit to no Third Party Maintenance. Large ERP vendors requiring companies to confirm they are not...
- Tags: Theory, Customer, SAP AG, Business Structures, It Services, Litigation, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- SAP & Oracle - Settling or Nettling?
- Psst - Hey, what kind of margin is that software getting? The long-running dispute between SAP and Oracle over the TomorrowNow case is moving to a settlement stage but not without some fireworks along the way. InfoWorld recently reported that SAP wants Oracle to provide profit margin...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Court to Oracle: Offer settlement price in SAP suit
- A federal judge has given Oracle until February 13 to provide a specific dollar amount to settle a lawsuit it filed against SAP last year. The suit alleges that TomorrowNow, an SAP subsidiary, illegally accessed Oracle copyright material and has asked for at least $1 billion in damages. ...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Might the SAP Mentors inherit the earth?
- Rather than attending last week's SAP TechEd in Berlin as a 'pure' blogger, I was also wearing my SAP Mentor hat. Unlike SAPPHIRE, where the exec team gets down and dirty with the press, analyst and blogger contingent from the business perspective, TechEd is all about the 'make guys.'...
- Tags: SAP AG, Hervé, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
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