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Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

What's the cloud's killer app?

At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka shares his views with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group on application development in the cloud. He pinpoints two key areas for continued research, real-time search and mobility.

Tags: Killer Application, Cloud, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Interop, SAP, Vishal Sikka

Videos 2009-05-26

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Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts

The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and automating the planning and tracking of financial transactions from end to end...

Tags: SAP AG, Corporate Communications, Corporate Governance, Storage, Mainframes, Internet, Databases, Servers, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-23

TIBCO and SAP: place your bets

Yesterday, Larry Dignan asked my opinion of persistent rumors that SAP is in the middle of taking a tilt at acquiring TIBCO. I rolled my digital eyeballs. How many times has this one gone around the block? As Brian Sommer yelled: ONCE A POTENTIAL ACQUISITION IS PASSED ON, IT...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Brian, Public Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-11

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Salesforce.com: rethinking the database

While attending Fortune's Brainstorm event, several of us took the opportunity to sit down with Parker Harris, Salesforce.com co-founder and EVP technology. To say it was our first outing as Irregulars with the company, Parker was remarkably open and congenial, often straying into territory that would otherwise drive hyper controlling...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Zoho, Database, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-28

News to know: AOL; Microsoft; Apple; SAP; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google's 5% stake worth $283 million Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: European...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Palm Pre, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-07-28

The Movers & Shakers Conference...

I tend to think of Fortune Brainstorm Tech, which happened last week in Pasadena, as a conference for industry titans. Last year's event was held amid tight security and featured the likes of Rupert Murdoch News International , Philippe Daulman Viacom and Jeff Bezos Amazon in...

Tags: Conversation, Conference, Twitter, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Intellectual Property, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-27

SAP unplugged: Vishal Sikka and John Schwarz on deck

Jeff Nolan and Vinnie Mirchandani have done a sterling job in reporting our meeting Vishal Sikka, SAP's CTO and John Schwarz, executive board member in charge of BusinessObjects. To my eternal shame, I was asleep for most of the meeting with Vishal having completely miscalculated the effects of jetlag, turning...

Tags: SAP AG, Leadership, Financial Planning, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?

As the soap opera that is SAP Business ByDesign rumbles on, I can't help but think of the opening lines in Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, ByD, Zinow, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Servers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-20

SoftwareAG: 'We're not up for sale'

SoftwareAG acquiring IDS Scheer: deal details All cash offer €477 million (net of IDS Scheer cash is €387 million) Debt to be repaid in 2-3 years Contracted shares today 48% Tender process for remainder expected to start August and close...

Tags: IDS Scheer, SAP AG, SoftwareAG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategy

Is SAP as serious about SaaS as John Wookey claimed in his widely reported speech last week? A comment by SAP CTO Vishal Sikka, trashing Salesforce.com in an interview published this week, suggests not. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Strategy, Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-06-18

What's the cloud's killer app? [video]

At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka shares his views with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group on application development in the cloud. He pinpoints two key areas for continued research, real-time search and mobility. [video=304926] by Larry Dignan

Tags: Killer Application, Video, Cloud, Software Development, Corporate Communications, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-27

SAP signs up for Open Cloud Manifesto: does anyone care?

I was surprised when I saw that SAP had signed up for the Open Cloud Manifesto. Despite SAP's best endeavors, thousands of customers and code jocks, ABAP is not a standard in the same way that Java has become. If you know ABAP the only place you can take it...

Tags: SAP AG, Open Cloud Manifesto, Programming Languages, Operational Planning, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Bad leadership causes failed IT [guest blogger]

Bad leadership causes failed IT [guest blogger]From the Obvious to the executionMuch of what you say is true, and as you point out much has been written on this subject, and very little changes.Having delivered some very successful projects myself, the biggest success factor is a clear delineation between, business,...

Tags: Strategy, Leadership, True Leadership, information technology, Bad leadership cause, Bad leadership, guest blogger

Discussion threads 2008-06-29

SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrum

SAP's software runs the world's largest enterprises 24/7 x 365. As a mission-critical infrastructure provider of enterprise applications, SAP's cultural DNA is hard-wired to deliver stable and reliable backbone software to large organizations. Given this background, one might ask whether that "perfection-oriented" culture is ideally suited to meeting the needs...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-21

CNBC: SAP America's president should offer media training

During an interview on CNBC, SAP's CEO Bill McDermott, said customers buy his software to accomplish three goals: Making money Cost reductions Maintaining compliance In a moment of what some might consider to be irrational exuberance, McDermott described SAP as the only...

Tags: CNBC, Media Training, SAP AG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-30

SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how'

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...

Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-28

SAP-Business Objects combo ready to roll

This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest acquisition, Business Objects. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said Business Objects gives his company number one leadership...

Tags: Business Objects, SAP AG, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-16

SAP's parallel approaches to ERP

During his presentation at SAP TechEd '07, Peter Zencke, a member of SAP's Executive Board and head of R&D, made it clear to the 6,000 SAP developers in attendance that the forthcoming Business ByDesign ERP suite for the mid-market is technological milestone for the company. "We put everything into one,...

Tags: Business Process, SAP NetWeaver, Peter Zencke, SAP AG, ERP, Business ByDesign, Business Process Platform, Operational Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-02