SAP’s four dimensions of SaaS success
SAP’s recipe for success in the cloud was the main course served up for knowledge-hungry ISVs attending this week’s EuroCloud Congress 2011 in Luxembourg. In a presentation Tuesday morning (June 28th), Rainer Zinow, who is SAP’s product strategy chief for Business ByDesign and the On Demand family of enterprise cloud applications, set out the four [...]
Square: It’s All About the Momentum, Baby!
Reading about Square’s latest $100 million in capital raised at a $1 billion valuation, it’s tempting to write another Bubble Story. While it’s undeniable that it would be hard to do that financing in the wake of the recent Sequoia RIP Good Times era, there’s something more interesting to think about here. First, let [...]
SAP starts highlighting sustainability customer success stories
I had a great chat with SAP’s Jeremiah Stone (Senior Director, Sustainability Solution Management) while we were at Sapphire Now in May. Craig Cmehil was good enough to video it for us, so here we are talking about SAP’s Sustainability solutions and SAP’s move to letting its customers recount their sustainability success stories. Here is [...]
Private Social Networks
By now you’d pretty much have to live under a rock to be completely ignorant about online social networks, whether you participate in them or not. Earlier this week facebook hit the news again with its ever rising valuation now…
Basware Expands, Introduces New BPO Offering — From P2P Software to AP Outsourcing (Part 1)
Basware (one of the most capable invoice automation/electronic invoice presentment payment software providers in the market) recently announced it was entering the AP outsourcing market with a new BPO offering of its own. This mar…
Voice of the Customer is Dead
Companies that obsess about customers invest differently than those companies which do not.
Stoking the social revolution
There’s a huge difference between the enterprise world and the social media community. While there are many signs of life on the social side, the rank and file global one thousand seem for the most part to be clueless. That’s not an indictment, just a statement of fact and maybe opportunity. At the Enterprise 2.0 [...]