By R "Ray" Wang on September 9, 2014
Australian Users Concerns About SAP Similar To Other Global Users Over 500 Australian SAP users gathered between September 8th and 9th, 2014 at the Sydney Hilton for the annual user conference. Users came from IT roles, marketing, HR, and finance. In speaking to over 100 attendees, key concerns include: Lack of clarity in future […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 29, 2014
Mobile Is The Entry Point To Digital Business Mobile is a key entry point into digital transformation and digital business initiatives. Along with cloud, social, big data/analytics, and video, mobile is one of the five pillars of digital. Mobile is more than the first screen of interaction for many users. Mobile describes how users expect […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 14, 2013
In a global announcement in Palo Alto, New York and Frankfurt, SAP’s top executives Dr. Vishal Sikka, Rob Enselin, Jim Haggeman Snabe, and legendary founder and chairman Dr. Hasso Plattner announced availability of SAP’s Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. SAP has rewritten the Business Suite to work on SAP’s HANA platform and believes that […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 3, 2013
The Inside Story On Oracle Fusion Apps At The End of 2012 Constellation sat down with Steve Miranda, Oracle’sExecutive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development to discuss the state of Oracle Fusion Apps in a no-holds barred honest conversation about what’s working, what’s not, and what to look forward to in 2013. R “Ray” […]
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By Dion Hinchcliffe on July 26, 2011
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 30, 2010
Upcoming Data Deluge Threatens The Effectiveness Of Activity Streams Activity streams, best popularized by consumer apps such as Facebook and Twitter, have emerged as the Web 2.0 visualization paradigm that addresses the massive flows of information users face (see Figure 1). As a key element of the dynamic user experiences discussed in the 10 elements […]
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By Phil Wainewright on April 27, 2010
Salesforce.com, creator of the archetypal proprietary cloud platform, today seized the initiative and redrew the entire PaaS landscape around open-source software stacks.
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By Phil Wainewright on April 14, 2010
Throughout a 20-minute customer presentation at yesterday’s UK launch of Workday, I was intrigued to hear not a single mention of the word SaaS — or even cloud computing. Johnson Odesoh, group IT strategy and architecture director of Aviva, explained why the insurance and financial services giant has chosen to standardize globally on Workday as […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 23, 2010
Confusion Continues With Cloud Computing And SaaS Definitions Coincidence or just brilliance must be in the air as three esteemed industry colleagues, Phil Wainewright, Michael Cote, and James Governor, have both decided to clarify definitions on SaaS and Cloud within a few days of each other. In fact, this couldn’t be more timely as SaaS […]
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By Phil Wainewright on March 18, 2010
To dispel some of the confusion about security and to help people evaluating whether to go multi-tenant, here is a quick overview of the main risks.
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