We’re Bigger than You, We’re Better than You, and We’re Special
I read this article yesterday about SAP’s recent update to prospects, analysts and press about their new SaaS offering and it took me a bit to digest. How is this possible that you can screw this up so monstrously when you are one of the largest software vendors in the world?
One reason is that SAP was always an [...]
Business Continuity in the Cloud (especially SaaS)
Good Debate on SaaS and Business Continuity and Contingency Planning
Interesting things I’ve been briefed on lately…
NetSuite, CA, iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Project Open,….
NetSuite has some new financial consolidation/planning functionality in their SaaS solution. It permits global firms to handle currency conversion. Adaptive Planning’s software is at the core of this solution. This technology does not currently use an in-core memory resident database. The more of this sort of [...]
SAP and Siemens: Rumors, Reality, Maintenance, and TCO
Rumors of the end of the world are pretty commonplace these days, and you don’t have to be following the current debate about healthcare in the US to catch a whiff of Armageddon in our times. The latest inclination that the world is coming to the end has emerged from Germany’s Wirtschaftswoche, a BusinessWeek equivalent [...]
SaaS Evolution & Endless Cycle Of Innovation
Ever wonder what the current state of SaaS adoption is and what does the future hold? Most of the answers come out in a report from Saugatuck. In its report very aptly titled, “Journey of endless cycle of innovation”, it notes that SaaS is now an agent…
