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- ByDesign, the younger person's ERP
- Many of the small and mid-sized businesses to whom SAP would like to sell its Business ByDesign SaaS offering are family-owned, especially in sectors like manufacturing, distribution and retail. SAP seems to feel that ByDesign will appeal to the forward-looking younger generation of those families — the future heirs of...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, Product, SAP AG, ERP, WIMA, Roi/Tco, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict
- I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...
- Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- EIC podcast: SAP, Intel, Dell, XP and Google
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk SAP, Intel's Mobile Internet Devices, Dell and Google's employee exodus. Dan and I mull over the SAP's succession plan. SAP named Leo Apotheker co-CEO with Henning Kagermann, who has a contract that runs out in 2009. Apotheker will be...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, SAP AG, Intel Corp., Dan, Merrill, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign II
- Following yesterday's post on the management changes at SAP and the pending departure of Peter Zencke, I got a call from SAP. Would I be available to discuss the issue with Peter ASAP? Here's some highlights from the conversation: As reported, Zencke is retiring from the...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- 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
- Strong sales focus as SAP shuffles the board
- Strong sales focus as SAP shuffles the boardZenckeZencke was a force at that company. He had the ability to get people deep inside engineering to move on customer problems quickly. He was one of the few people, inside the company that can easily turn the ocean liner of...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), board, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- Strong sales focus as SAP shuffles the board
- Following today's announcement of board changes at SAP, it is clear the company is looking to strengthen sales representation. As I suggested earlier Henning Kagermann will retire next May handing over the CEO's spot to Leo Apotheker. He will be supported by Bill McDermott who now has a global sales...
- Tags: Board, Peter Zencke, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Governance, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- SAP Influencer Summit: SOA grows up
- I'm spending a couple of days at the SAP Influencer Summit, an invitation-only event for approximately 500 key SAP partners, bloggers, analysts, user group leaders, academics, and the press. According to Mike Prosceno, Vice President for Marketplace Communications, the Influencer Summit is intended to facilitate "networking and relationship building,...
- Tags: SAP AG, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Product Development, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- NetSuite SuiteBundler: Most important software of last ten years?
- Along the road to an expected IPO this year, NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson announced SuiteBundler, a new set of capabilities for building and customizing applications with the company's software-as-a-service SaaS platform. The major innovation is that customizations and configurations created in one NetSuite account can be reused in another account...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Application, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, SAP AG, NetSuite SuiteBundler, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Sales, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Oracle's double standards
- Oracle has allegedly invited 30 bloggers to its Oracle OpenWorld event. Yay - they get the value of independent analysis...or do they? Check Jake Kuramoto's blog on the topic: Oracle has extended an invitation to leaders in the blogging community, who can come experience the pageantry of an entire...
- Tags: Conversation, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Standards, Blogger, Justin, Mike Krigsman, Jeff, Back Story, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Podcast: Microsoft HealthVault, Zune, SAP and more....
- This week on the Dan & David Show Microsoft dominates the news. Today the company introduced HealthVault, and free client application and Microsoft Live service for building and maintaining health records. It's an emerging market that is going to be huge, with Google and others trying to gain favor as...
- Tags: Game, Google Inc., Podcast, Microsoft Zune, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Podcasts, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign
- SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesigniKnowWare enables SaaS personalization PLUS VIDEOStarting in 2002 iKnowWare was well on its way empowering SMB's to connect each business touchpoint in their language. Not changing the way you do business but powering you to do business your way. Personalization increases adoption and...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Corporate communications, iKnowWare, SAP AG, Peter Zencke
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- News to know: Zune; 100,000 year storage; SAP
- Notable headlines: Robin Harris: 100,000 year nanowire storage. Microsoft unveils revamped Zunes. Matthew Miller: Microsoft announces new flash Zunes and the Zune 80GB, still no WiFi downloads. Microsoft press release. Gallery right. David Berlind: Interview: Google completes integration of Postini into...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Sales Strategy, Rootkits, Storage, Sales, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- 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...
- Tags: Tenant, mySAP, Database, Peter Zencke, Customer, SAP AG, Automation, Business ByDesign, DF, PZ, Storage, AJAX, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- 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
- O'Reilly talks turning IT inside out and data lock-in at SAP TechEd
- SAP's TechEd '07 got off to glitzy start in Las Vegas as the pied piper of Web 2.0 Tim O'Reilly told the crowd of about 6,000 NetWeaver, Java, ABAP, ERP developers about the design patterns and business models for the next generation of software (hint, it's not on premises client/server...
- Tags: Web, Nokia Corp., Information Technology, Interaction, Data, SAP AG, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- SAP gets SaaS: can it run with it?
- When talking to software vendors about SaaS, my mantra is that SaaS is a journey. Having seen SAP unveil its Business ByDesign product today — formerly codenamed A1S — I have to say it is on the right road and it has hit the tarmac at an impressive pace. There...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- SAP Business ByDesign: first analysis
- SAP's new A1S offering, formally called Business ByDesign, is intended for companies between 100-500 employees, which do not have deep vertical market software requirements. SAP believes this $15 billion market will help SAP dramatically expand its business over the coming years. The product is the result of...
- Tags: Product, SAP AG, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Management, Smb/Sme, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- 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
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