Sadagopan
Sadagopan, heads satyam's NA consulting & enterprise solution based out of the Valley. A dynamic, visionary, and senior executive with many years of experience in the successful start up,growth, and leadership of global consulting ,sales and deal pursuit teams with focus on enterprise software & services. He has an impressive track record of building leading edge practices, steering high performance teams and in pursuing programs and instituting processes for dynamic growth environments. He has led international teams and initiatives throughout the US, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa. Sadagopan has consummate skills at understanding complex business and technical environments, strategic relationship building with key stakeholders, and ability to manage difficult negotiations and pursue innovative ideas focused on generating business value. His blog focus is on business, enterprise software, IT services & web presence.
By Sadagopan on February 9, 2010
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SAP announced major executive board level changes on Sunday. Léo Apotheker moves out out as CEO and in comes Bill McDermott, head of the field operations, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development, who will now share the top job. Interestingly, SAP promoted Vishal Sika, chief technology officer (CTO) to the [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Emerging Trends, enterprise software, erp, sap
By Sadagopan on December 21, 2009
The web is abuzz with analyses on Google’s real time search effectiveness assessed in the context of the death of an Hollywood actress today. The question there is how real time is realtime? Google has demonstrated through algorithmic means(without…
Posted in Business | Tagged CEP, Emerging Technologies, Emerging Trends
By Sadagopan on December 14, 2009
In continuation of the previous note:Involved discussions on cloud invariably turn towards the question: would embracing cloud help business bring down IT spend? This question assumes more relevance given the fast early adoptors are seen to be increas…
Posted in Business | Tagged Cloud Computing, Emerging Trends
By Sadagopan on December 11, 2009
Was in a closed door meet with some customers, influencers analyzing the state of the cloud computing market and the future directions including key players maturity, monetization and derivative impacts throughout the cloud landscape. The clear consens…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged analyst, cloud adoption, Cloud Computing, Emerging Trends, force.com, google, influencer, microsoft, salesforce.com
By Sadagopan on December 9, 2009
The Global Information Industry of the UCSD has put together statistics about how much information gets consumed by Americans every day. Two previous studies, by Peter Lyman and Hal Varian in 2000 and 2003, analyzed the quantity of original content cr…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Emerging Trends, High-definition television, Information overload, moore's law, research, RSS, Syndication and Feeds, Television, User Generated Content
By Sadagopan on December 9, 2009
An interesting thread is now on within the enterprise irregulars group on what constitutes private clouds –as again very enlightened discussion therein. The issue that I want to talk about is if private cloud do indeed exist, then what is their adop…
Posted in Business | Tagged Clouds, Emerging Technologies, Emerging Trends
By Sadagopan on December 6, 2009
I was in a meeting with a CIO in New York on Friday where he outlined the onslaught of disruptive innovation in his industry and the broad set of challenges faced therein. The magnitude of the change that his organization needed to face was mindbogglin…
Posted in Business | Tagged Business Models, Emerging Trends, innovation
By Sadagopan on December 2, 2009
As IT’s importance grows inside organizations, with more competition and concerns about ROI and BVIT, pressures on resourcing, offshoring strategies and heightened sense of expectations from IT by business, all enterprises undergo such changes and an a…
Posted in Business | Tagged BVIT, Emerging Trends
By Sadagopan on November 14, 2009
Too often when large enterprises begin to look at number justification to move onto the cloud, many seasoned executives are struck by the limited enterprise class billing choices that the model is able to provide – Granted this is an evolving space, …
Posted in Business | Tagged Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Monetization
By Sadagopan on November 5, 2009
Just came across the report from Royal Society, – the UK’s national academy of science, – Hidden Wealth: the contribution of science to service sector innovation. Innovation to services and its linkage to hard sciences happens to be one of the core foc…
Posted in Business | Tagged innovation, services