Behind the scenes with SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner
In this podcast, SAP co-founder, Hasso Plattner, discusses in-memory databases, competition with Oracle and Larry Ellison, and other exciting topics.
@certification5
Today’s show I was joined by Martin Gillet, Michael Koch, Dennis Howlett, Jon Reed and Leonardo De Araujo. These 5 individuals all SAP Mentors, all friends (as well as my friends) and all passionate members of the SAP communities have put together their thoughts, opinions and ideas around the SAP Education and Certification programs. They [...]
The Gas Pump Theory of User Interaction
You can learn a lot from simple things in life. Simple behaviors that run below the level of consciousness make decisions for us all the time. Take the humble gas pump as an example. Pretty simple to operate. Yet I noticed some time ago that gas station operators were changing the order in which they [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 05/28/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: Infographic: Gulf oil spill by the numbers Amazing infographic of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill – puts it into perspective. tags: Gulf of Mexico, oilspill, bp, greennumbers Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. [...]
Friday Rant: When Finance Takes Over Procurement
In my spring 2010 “predictions” conference presentation (which I’ve now given almost half a dozen times), one of the scenarios I posit for the future of procurement in the next five years is that finance will take a much more active stance and roll within the procurement function. I don’t think I’m alone in this [...]
Innovation in BPO purgatory, Part II: Enterprise buyers are blaming themselves for innovation failure
It is abundantly clear that enterprises buyers recognize that the blame lies a lot more in their camp than their provider’s, with well over a third citing poor change management and communications as a great concern, coupled with the fact that their current governance team has little juice internally to drive an innovation agenda.
DHL Extends Into Procurement BPO — But Will It Get Past Logistics to Become More Than a 3PL?
DHL, one of the worlds largest freight providers and 3PLs, just announced its intent to pursue the procurement BPO market by delivering solutions to both public and private sector companies. From the location and direction of the announcement, it appears that much of the new venture’s focus will be on the UK market. According to [...]
Keynesian Porn
Read this and thought “right on brother”. it ain’t exactly the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Every American who pays taxes is invested in your EV at this point. Self-righteousness gets you nowhere when the playing field ain’t level. Just sayin… [From Quote Of The Day: Don’t Make Me Pull This Oversubsidized Niche [...]
Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q1 CY 2009 – Software’s Back With Double Digit Gains In License Growth
The majority of 21 publicly traded software vendors managed to show year-over-year (YoY) gains over the dismal beating from calendar year (CY) Q1 2009. SaaS vendor maintained their double digit gains while on-premise vendors mostly showed positive traction (see Figure 1) and (see Figures 2). Highlights for the 2010 CY Q1 2010 results: Big gains [...]
Genpact: Procurement BPO Brains and Brawn (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series examining Genpact’s capabilities in procurement, I took a look at their broader capabilities and positioning in the sector. In this post, I’ll double-click on their unique processes and approaches to delivering procurement BPO results in the source to pay arena. Within this area, Genpact breaks their capabilities down into [...]
