Pinch me. SAP is Dreaming up Social for the Enterprise.
With Patel’s new position, SAP recently moved “social” into its cloud group where it will support all SAP suites and concentrations (CRM, for example) in a new social platform that will be structured to support the business horizontally and seamlessly across on-premise and cloud offerings. The group is building what they’re calling, “Project Robus.” (Latin for resolve or purpose.)
The Long Retreat Up Market
SAP is holding Sapphire, its annual user meeting in Orlando this week. Sapphire is one of the premiere events on the IT tradeshow calendar along with Microsoft Convergence, Oracle Open World, Sage Insights and Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce. These events each draw tens of thousands of people from around the world and each has a distinctly different [...]
Research Summary: Market Overview – The Market For SAP Optimization Options
Forward And Commentary This market overview provides a starting point to SAP customers seeking optimization solutions. The document delivers actionable advice and insights into a proven collection of software solutions. As part of the full series, best practices documents will follow with in- depth case studies and a critical product evaluation of this growing market [...]
Sustainable SAP
I attended SAP’s Sapphire Now conference in Orlando earlier this week along with around 12,000 others. It was a very interesting few days of talks, meetings, and showcases. SAP’s commitment to Sustainability was evident throughout the event. The two keynote speakers invited by SAP were Al Gore and Richard Branson, for example – both of [...]
SAPPHIRE Now – huge surprise, good stuff and a couple of important issues
I have to admit I went to Orlando and this year’s SAPPHIRE Now with lower than normal expectations. Boy was I surprised, and in a good way. Overall I found a turbocharged and far, far nimbler SAP. To the extent…
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 [...]
The SapphireNow version
As I spend a couple of days at SapphireNow, the SAP user conference in Orlando, it is timely to acknowledge the impact of the vendor on many sections of upcoming book, The New Polymath. Several SAP customers, partners, Mentors, present and former employees like John Dean, Mike Prosceno, Marilyn Pratt, Gretchen Lindquist, Dennis Howlett, Craig [...]
Polls and Surveys: Sapphire 2010 – On The Ground Collaborative Research
Collaborative Research Process At Work I’m pleased to say, that I’ll be joining fellow Enterprise Irregulars – Michael Cote, Larry Dignan, Michael Krigsman, and Vinnie Mirchandani; SAP Mentors – Dennis Howlett and Jon Reed, along with esteemed journalist Thomas Wailgum from CIO magazine to gauge the sentiment of SAP users. We may be adding a [...]
The SAPPHIRE of Second Chances: SAP and the Road to Redemption
It’s becoming an almost predictable experience, attending an SAP user conference. First comes the spiritual purge of the pre-briefings leading up to the event. Then the unholy pilgrimage to Orlando, then the aesthetic self-flagellation that comes from slogging through a two or three-day schedule of unrelenting meetings, presentations, and deep-fried finger food. Finally, the cathartic [...]
SAPPHIRE NOW 2010
I’ve been a bit quiet lately in regards to the day job, many know I have switched roles inside of SAP but I’ve not really gone into great detail about what it is that I am doing these days. So I thought I would take a moment to kick things off with what I will [...]
