By R "Ray" Wang on February 15, 2012
SAP’s First Consumer App Addresses A Key Consumer Concern At midnight pacific time, February 15th, SAP launched its first ever consumer app – Recalls. This consumer app, downloadable for free on Apple’s app store, was developed from one of the world’s leading enterprise software companies (see Figure 1.) SAP’s first foray into the consumer world [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, Big Data, Business Analytics, Business by Design, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CoIT, Consumer apps, Consumerization of IT, customer engagement, Customer Experience, iOS, iPhone, mobile, mobile enterprise, Objective C, On Demand, Product Review, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, sap, SAP Recalls, social business, Social Business Software, social commerce, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, Software Vendors, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 3, 2011
SAP’s Sales OnDemand Strategy Reveals A Longer Term Product And Cloud Strategy In an exclusive briefing on February 24th with SAP’s Executive Vice President of Line Of Business Applications, John Wookey, he provided fresh insight into the new product design and Cloud philosophy at SAP. This pre-CeBit announcement coincided with the SAP Analyst Day in [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business by Design, Business suite 7, ByD, CeBIT, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Energy and carbon management, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise collaboration, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, HR, hybrid deployments, John Wookey, News Analysis, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next generation, Next generation apps, On Demand, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, sales force automation, SAP Business By Design, SAP Business Suite 7, SAP OnDemand Large Enterprise, sapsod, social business, Social Business Software, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, vendor strategy |
By Denis Pombriant on October 20, 2010
I get a lot of email. It’s not all because of my job or because I publish my work frequently. Some of it is like that, but it seems like my email address is on a lot of lists and I am one of the people who get spammed whenever there’s a webinar to fill. [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CRM, economics, On Demand, recession, sales, subscription economy, technology, Tien Tzuo, Zuora |
By R "Ray" Wang on August 9, 2010
Welcome to a part 2 of a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model. Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors:
Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Alliances, analytics, Apps Strategy, business int, business process outsourcing, Cisco, Cisco Systems, Cloud, Cloud Computing, collaboration software, custom apps, Database, Dell, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, escrows, financing options, Hardware, hp, ibm, implementation partners, information management, IT budgets, IT Strategy, last mile solutions, managed service provider, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microsoft, middleware, middleware platforms, Monday’s Musings, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next generation, Next generation apps, On Demand, on-premise, operating systems, oracle, packaged apps, partner ecosystems, partners, partnerships, procurement, Research Report, resellers, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, software escrow, Storage, System Integrators, technology budgets, third party financing, trusted advisors, vars, vendor strategy, vertical apps |
By R "Ray" Wang on July 27, 2010
Is your technology provider a hardware vendor or a software vendor? Does your System Integrator now provide solutions in the cloud? These questions will continue as models converge. Hardware, software, and system integration vendors must reinvent new models of revenue. The economic recession has forced business model shifts at the major technology companies.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Alliances, analytics, Apps Strategy, business int, business process outsourcing, Cisco, Cisco Systems, Cloud, Cloud Computing, collaboration software, custom apps, Database, Dell, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, escrows, financing options, Hardware, hp, ibm, implementation partners, information management, IT budgets, IT Strategy, last mile solutions, managed service provider, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microsoft, middleware, middleware platforms, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next generation, Next generation apps, On Demand, on-premise, operating systems, oracle, packaged apps, partner ecosystems, partners, partnerships, procurement, Research Report, resellers, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, software escrow, Storage, System Integrators, technology budgets, third party financing, trusted advisors, vars, vendor strategy, vertical apps |
By Zoli Erdos on July 8, 2010
We’ve had email dead, resumes dead, wikis dead themes, now it’s apparently time for the SaaS is Dead meme, thanks to a recently published Gartner report. My favorite quote from the report: SaaS is not a panacea, and companies need to evaluate and understand the trade-offs that SaaS presents Indeed. Here’s another quote from Gartner [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged enterprise software, gartner, netsuite, On Demand, on-premise, SaaS, shelfware, software upgrades, subscriptions, tco, Zuora |
By R "Ray" Wang on May 19, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged bbd, bill mcdermott, Business by Design, Business Objects, ByD, Cisco, Clear Standars, Cloud, ecosystems, EhP, EMC, event report, intel, iPad, Jim Hagemann Snabe, On Demand, On Device, on-premise, oracle, real-time, RIM, SaaS, sap, SAPPHIRE, sapphirenow, sustainable, Sybase, Syclo, unwired, Vishal Sikka, VM Ware |
By Zoli Erdos on May 18, 2010
In my recent Suites post I said there were exactly 1.5 (one and a half) integrated full business solutions (SaaS Suite, SaaS All-In-One, SaaS ERP, SaaS SMB ERP – take your pick or create a new one) offered as a service. The one in that equation was NetSuite, and the half is SAP’s Business ByDesign. [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged all-in-one, application suites, Business ByDesign, ByD, enterprise software, erp, integrated suites, marketing, netsuite, On Demand, SaaS, sap, saphirenow, software as a service |
By Phil Wainewright on April 22, 2010
About ten years ago, I met with the then CIO of McAfee.com, Doug Cavit (who later joined Microsoft as chief security strategist). The thing that most kept him awake at night, he told me then, was the risk of a third party piggy-backing onto McAfee’s own trusted access into its customers’ PCs. As a long-term [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Anti-virus, Customer Experience, McAfee, McAfee.com, microsoft, On Demand, security, Windows 7, Windows XP |
By Phil Wainewright on April 8, 2010
Digital citizens are disgusted at the way the UK parliament rushed Internet censorship provisions into law last night. The political establishment is out of touch with the rapid pace of change unleashed by the Internet.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged broadband, copyright, Digital Economy Bill, europe, Law, On Demand, Politics, social computing, Web 2.0 |
