Bring out the fact checkers
‘Tis the season for debates and fact checking statements by candidates. Not politicians, but technology vendors.
Like this one by SAP in a column titled Cloud Strategy that I saw courtesy of Jon Reed:
What a Large Enterprise CIO Would Think of the SAP Cloud Position
I’m well into the second day of the SAP Analyst Summit. SAP executives have been pounding the following talking points: - We’ve caught up on the cloud! - We have a lot of on-demand apps! - We can’t wait to cross-sell these to our client base! - We will continue to build more on-demand apps [...]
SAP/SuccessFactors — Help Me Count The HRM Codebases
Shall We Leverage Your Code Or Mine? I’m working on a mega-post about the SAP/SuccessFactors deal, but in the meantime I could use your help in making sure I’ve got the full list of HRM-related codebases that must be addressed — strategically and tactically — as a part of this deal. Much of this post [...]
The (ERP) Shootout That Isn’t.
<rant> We’ve often discussed SaaS Suites, ERP, specific vendors like SAP and Netsuite, so seeing this tweet by SAP a good month ago of course piqued my curiosity: @SAPByDesign RT @VendorShootout: Business #ByDesign: The Most Complete,Adaptable OnDemand Business Solution http://spr.ly/6019RH4S #erp <-reg 2 download Wow. It looks like SAP’s SaaS offering, Business ByDesign won some [...]
Converging Giants: Microsoft Dynamics lines up against SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce.com
I’ve just come back the Microsoft Dynamics’ Convergence conference, where the news about Dynamics’ progress in the enterprise software space can be summed up in the following manner: The company’s two flagship products, AX and Dynamics CRM, have reached a functional level that basically places them on par with the best of their respective categories. [...]
SAP Sales OnDemand – Addressing the Lingering Questions
On November 8, 2008, John Wookey left Oracle to lead SAP’s large enterprise “Line of Business” (LOB) team. Since Wookey joined SAP, we’ve seen internal clarifications of SAP’s LOB on-demand strategy, but not much new product. That changed on February 24, 2011, when SAP hosted a group of “influencers” at the Boston Museum of Science [...]
SAP’s In-memory Hana Database Appliance Gets Apped
The old canard the SAP is not an innovator took another hit this week with the partial unveiling of a new set of applications built to run on top of SAP’s Hana in-memory database system. The new apps, due out in a set of rolling releases thus year, fill an important gap in SAP’s Hana [...]
SAP CRM Sales On-demand Heads to Market
More proof that SAP is serious about making a break from its on-premise past and in the process challenge on-demand titan Salesforce.com came last week in the form of a preview look at SAP Sales On-demand. The preview, granted to a group of industry analysts in Boston, proved that SAP isn’t afraid to be innovative [...]
SAP Sales OnDemand: Got It, Got It, Need It?
For an inconceivably long time, I have been a fan of SAP’s without being anywhere close to a fan of their on demand a.k.a. SaaS a.k.a. sorta cloud, efforts. In fact, if you remember I ripped Business By Design a new one even as recently as Sapphire 2010 last May. But, at an invite-only Influencers Day [...]
Carnac The Magnificent: Unseen Answers To 2011′s Unknown Questions
Carnac the Magnificent When we lost Johnny Carson, we lost a great entertainer. For thirty years, 1962 to 1992, he dominated late night television, and he did that without insulting our intelligence or our sensibilities. My beloved grandmother, Bubbi Bloom, with whom I lived through much of high school, would get ready for Johnny’s Tonight [...]
