Cloud dancing: CIO perspective on SAP’s cloud strategy
SAP has made important strides in building a cloud strategy. Here’s what you need to know.
Speed of business propels SaaS expansion
There’s a received wisdom that SaaS adoption is taking place among a subset of companies that face substantial change. SaaS makes sense if you need to move fast, grow quickly, adapt to rapidly changing markets or, in some cases, foreshorten the disruption of consolidation or downsizing. In the ERP space, the latest expression of this [...]
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 [...]
The Cloud, ERP and the Channel Partners
Cloud solutions are impacting application software ecosystems. Channel partners will need to change several aspects of their businesses to optimize their revenues and profits.
SAP Business byDesign: Status update
A video interview with SAP’s SVP of Strategy for Business byDesign, the company’s on-demand offering to the mid-market.
Is SaaS the same as cloud?
From the customer’s perspective, it’s all the same. If it’s provided over the Internet on a pay-for-usage basis, it’s a cloud service. Within the industry, we argue about definitions more than is good for us. Customers look in from the outside and see a much simpler array of choices. Why is this important? It matters [...]
