Changes at #SAP

Changes at #SAP

By Dennis Moore on February 8, 2010

This weekend, it was announced that Leo Apotheker was leaving SAP immediately. Leo had been SAP’s CEO. Replacing Leo would be co-CEO’s Jim Snabe (focusing on technology) and Bill McDermott (focusing on sales). Also announced was the elevation of Vishal Sikka, the company’s CTO, to SAP’s Executive Board (the management board).
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News Analysis: SAP’s CEO Léo Apotheker Resigns

News Analysis: SAP’s CEO Léo Apotheker Resigns

By R "Ray" Wang on February 7, 2010

Rumors began circulating early this weekend that Léo Apotehker’s contract would not be renewed.  The highest level sources had confirmed this early in the morning and the afternoon press release provided confirmation of the details.  A few key facts:

SAP moves back to Co-CEO management structure. Bill McDermott, head of field organization and Jim Hagemann Snabe, [...]

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UK tax department: Bizarre IT spending incentives

UK tax department: Bizarre IT spending incentives

By Michael Krigsman on February 5, 2010

Phil Pavitt, CIO for the UK tax department, recently spoke out against huge IT projects. Some of his comments are extraordinary.

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SAP’s 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon

SAP’s 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 4, 2010

I spent some time this morning working with SAP’s new 12Sprints collaboration service, which was announced earlier this week. Available free in open beta immediately, it’s a cloud-based service that’s a cross between Basecamp and Google Wave and is ostensibly designed for team collaboration. Not incidentally, 12Sprints is also clearly a social application and it includes viral invitation, extensive commenting and discussion capabilities, and interesting new twists on measuring community opinion such as real time consensus tracking. Here’s my analysis and breakdown.

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Is Contrarian Purchasing a Good Savings Strategy?

Is Contrarian Purchasing a Good Savings Strategy?

By Jason Busch on February 8, 2010

Recent headlines about Toyota have no doubt been music to the ears of its major rivals — especially Ford and GM. From a giant recall for gas pedals that stick (making the Audi 5000’s sudden-acceleration PR woes look tame by comparison) to botched hy…

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How SaaS Helps Enterprises Effect Change

How SaaS Helps Enterprises Effect Change

By Phil Wainewright on February 8, 2010

Listen to my conversation with Eric Berridge, CEO of Bluewolf, one of the pioneers of a new generation of professional services companies that specialize in software-as-a-service and cloud computing.
In this podcast, learn what attracts large enterprises to SaaS, and find out why adopting SaaS can help change the culture of an organization and effect business [...]

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In Search of the Obvious – cutting through the marketing mess

In Search of the Obvious – cutting through the marketing mess

By David Terrar on February 8, 2010

When I first tweeted that Jack Trout’s new book “In Search of the Obvious” had arrived from Amazon, my mate @euan suggested his (excellent) blog is actually easy to find. He called it “The Obvious” because when he started writing about the application of new technology and social media in organizations, he felt that, [...]

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Open Angel Forum Is Off To A Great Start

Open Angel Forum Is Off To A Great Start

By Brad Feld on February 7, 2010

When I wrote my post titled An Angel Investor Group Move That Makes Me Vomit I expected to write my little rant and be done with it.  A month or so later Jason Calacanis picked up the mantle and started a Jihad against the idea of angel groups charging entrepreneurs to pitch to them.
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SAP changes leaders: Time for innovation

SAP changes leaders: Time for innovation

By Michael Krigsman on February 7, 2010

Bloggers and Twitters alike are buzzing today with news that enterprise giant, SAP, announced a leadership change. IT’s time for customer-friendly SAP legislation and product innovation.

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Enterprise software is entirely bereft of soul

Enterprise software is entirely bereft of soul

By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 7, 2010

I was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software. Without batting an eyelid, he asked me “Are you…

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Co-CEO: a Good Concept? Or Desperate Measure?

Co-CEO: a Good Concept? Or Desperate Measure?

By Zoli Erdos on February 7, 2010

That was the fun part. After all, it’s Sunday. Now read the story here:

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Pimping Your Fish at DemoCamp Toronto 25

Pimping Your Fish at DemoCamp Toronto 25

By Sandy Kemsley on February 6, 2010

After we heard from Gurbaksh Chahal, the rest of DemoCamp proceeded as usual. We were in the Ted Rogers School of Management, part of Ryerson University, in a really great lecture hall space that seats a few hundred people; it seemed like most of the seats were filled that night.
First up was Albert Lai of [...]

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NetSuite’s Revenue in light of the bigger ERP revenue question

NetSuite’s Revenue in light of the bigger ERP revenue question

By Brian Sommer on February 6, 2010

Earnings reports and channel checks suggest SaaS vendors are making in-roads in the ERP space. On-premise vendors may be at risk although the effect of acquisitions makes it hard to ascertain within their financial statements.

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Amazon, Macmillan and me

Amazon, Macmillan and me

By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 5, 2010

In the on-going battle between published content and distribution that Larry Dignan summarizes well at ZDNet I should, as a blogger and the fact that I have a book coming out, be unabashedly on the side of content.
But I find myself conflicted.
Conflicted because one of the people I interviewed for the book sent me this [...]

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