The Return of Business ByDesign and the Future of the On-Demand ERP Market
It’s tough being SAP’s forthcoming Business ByDesign in an unforgiving market. Having been launched and then pulled back, re-designed and then offered back to a market that is a little more jaded, a lot more cautious, and desperately trying to sort out what’s happening in this global recession, the ByD team is facing an almost [...]
Event Report: Sapphire 2010 Brings Customers Back To A Sense Of Normalcy
Co CEO’s Stabilize The Company Both SAP Co-CEO’s Bill McDermott (Orlando) and Jim Hagemann Snabe (Frankfurt) took stage on May 18, 2010, in a simulcasted keynote. While Bill highlighted SAP’s future vision and commitment to customers, Jim focused on communicating the SAP product strategy to match the corporate vision. Customers, partners, and influencers sought an [...]
Redux: Will Google Enter the Business Applications Market?
If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then I respect that. And it’s all a big IF. So no, I am simply dusting off an old post I wrote [...]
SAP Business ByDesign Update: Multi-tenancy, In-Core Memory DB and More
The story of SAP’s Business ByDesign product continues to unfold. It looks like SAP is going to move this product forward more in 2010. Since its debut, the product continues to improve – read this post to find out how.
SAP BusinessByDesign versus NetSuite OneWorld shootout
Ray Wang and I were recruited to judge a “shootout” at the Sapience conference Helmuth Guembel had organized in Cambridge this week. Mark Siller, Project Manager Steinbeis-Transferzentrum demoed the OneWorld product along with Mini Peiris, VP of Product Marketing at…
SAP Business byDesign: Taming the multi-tenant beast
SAP over-hyped its mid-market software as a service (SaaS) product, called Business byDesign, leading to a mediocre reputation in the market but current status looks pretty good.
SAP Business Influencers Summit – A Clear Path Forward?
I have to admit that I enjoy going to conferences and summits as an analyst, journalist or paid speaker. I’m treated well by the vendors who bring me, my expenses are covered (and if a speaker, a fee too of course) and I know a lot of the staff who of whichever vendor it is [...]
The Need for Timely Software – SAP TechEd 2009
There was no giant news at SAP TehcEd Phoenix a few weeks ago, but in the nooks and crannies there were some previews of things to come and the drawn-out proving of SAP’s notion of “timeless software,” or “pace layering,” as James likes to call it. But, a technology company can’t be judged entirely by [...]
