Life after SAP
For the first time in a while I missed SapphireNow this year, and yet through some unplanned scheduling got to be around a bunch of SAP alums, ex-partners and ex-customers. I was invited to present to SAP alum at the AtelierSAP event which preceded SapphireNow in Orlando. A lunch conversation with Paul Wahl, former US [...]
SAPPHIRENOW Vishal Sikka Keynote – HANA For Speed, Fiori For Usability
Vishal Sikka, who leads technology and innovation at SAP, followed Hasso Platner onto the keynote stage; I decided to break the post and publish just Plattner’s portion since my commentary was getting bit long. Sikka also started his part of the keynote with HANA, and highlighted some customer case studies from their “10,000 Club”, where [...]
Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spend management
If the future is a networked world, then we may well find that the future belongs to sourcing vendors. No other category of vendors has had its landscape transformed so fundamentally by the advent of the Web, to the extent that leading vendors such as Concur and Ariba took early decisions to wholly rearchitect their [...]
2013 ERP Market Share Update: SAP Solidifies Market Leadership
During 2012 the worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market experienced sluggish growth of just 2.2%, yet Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), financial management and Human Capital Management (HCM) applications showed potential for breakout growth. Through the challenging times of the previous year however, SAP still retained worldwide market share leadership. These and other insights were recently published in [...]
Today is my last day at Gartner.
Today is my last day at Gartner. The last 5 1/2 years have flown by. I have learnt more than I imagined I could, and probably forgotten more too. I’ve done over 3000 inquiries, written over 100 research notes, led several magic quadrants, attended 100s of Research communities, spoke at numerous conferences and strategy days. [...]
Monday’s Musings: The Controversy Surrounding Gartner’s CRM Market Share Analysis
The Gartner Market Share Analysis:CRM Software Report Raises Questions On Accuracy of Market Sizing Reports The recent Gartner report “Market Share Analysis: Customer Relationship Management Software, Worldwide, 2012” has generated some controversy among the enterprise software set. The report and other reports such as these, are often used for bragging rights by vendors and for [...]
SAP TwoGo – ride-sharing software for the enterprise
In a less than obvious move earlier this week, SAP launched a ride-sharing app called TwoGo. Why less than obvious? Well, ride-sharing is generally perceived as more of a consumer focused activity, than an enterprise one. And SAP is very much an Enterprise software company. A quick search for ride-share iPhone apps, for example returns [...]
Rank
The CRM world has been atwitter, to borrow a phrase, ever since Gartner released its CRM market size report on April18. Since I am not rich, I do not own a copy of the document but the table of contents provides some very interesting fodder. The top five, in order, are Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft [...]
The Oracle Assessment
Oracle is huge. No single assessment does this complex IT provisioner justice. While many of my peers speak of some tech companies in single-word assessments, I struggle with Oracle. And, let me get this out of the way right now, I actually like some of the stuff they’re doing, I question some others and am [...]
Facebook and ebay’s data centers are now vastly more transparent
Facebook announced at the end of last week new way to report PUE and WUE for its datacenters. This comes hot on the heels of ebay’s announcement of its Digital Service Efficiency dashboard – a single-screen reporting the cost, performance and environmental impact of customer buy and sell transactions on ebay. These dashboards are a [...]
