Process Design Slam 2009 #SAPTechEd09 #BPXslam09
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We’re just getting started with the Process Design Slam: one of the face-to-face sessions that make up the collaborative design process that started a couple of months ago on the Design Slam wiki. Marilyn Pratt has identified the six groups that will each work on their part of the design, collaborating between groups (a.k.a. poaching [...]
USGS Now Embraces Twitter as Source of Earthquake Information
This time it was personal. The earthquake hit three miles from my house. It was a minor one, magnitude 3.7, but I felt it very strongly, albeit very shortly, too. Just a sudden kick in the butt, nothing more. Perhaps that’s the difference between being right above the epicenter or feeling it remotely. I jumped [...]
Larry Ellison Unveils Fusion 1.0
Here are the basics:
Version 1.0 includes the following modules:
Finance
Human Capital Management
Sales and marketing
SCM
Project portfolio management
Procurement
GRC
Notably, there is no manufacturing module. So the focus will be on the service industries.
Also notable: Each of these individual components will be deployable in a SOA architecture as standalone modules attached to an existing non-Fusion application suite, such as eBusiness [...]
SAP research overview: Gravity #SAPTechEd09
Image by Craig & Nicole via Flickr We had a blogger roundtable today with Soeren Balko, VP in the SAP NetWeaver BPM architecture and design group, and Marek Kowalkiewicz from the Brisbane section of SAP Research with an overview of the research and special projects going on at SAP. Innovations tend to emerge from the [...]
Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI’s and Channel Partners
Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP.
I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and channel partners possess. These qualities and my comments on [...]
Benioff At Oracle Open World: This Could Be A Trend
Apparently Marc Benioff scored both a PR coup and some nice/nice points by appearing at Oracle Open World on Tuesday and failing to completely trash talk his competitor. The event seemed to go so well (Benioff was described by one observer as “magnanimous“, not exactly an adjective usually associated with “shoot from the lip” Marc) [...]
Oracle OpenWorld 2009 – Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head
I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld. The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees? Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever can you put together something [...]
