S/4HANA Customer Survey
When SAP announced S4 in February, several analysts commented (see my post here) there were scores of unanswered questions. What does the product release roadmap look like beyond the Simple Finance? When will industry specific applications become part of the S4/HANA suite? What is the ROI for this product migration? What are the pricing/licensing and […]
CeBIT SBA keynote – Strategic Building Blocks for your Digital Transformation Strategy
As my last post explained, I was privileged to do the opening keynote, substituting for Dion Hinchcliffe, at this week’s Social Business Arena at CeBIT 2015. The theme of the show was social as the enabler for digital transformation. I expanded on a session I did at the Enterprise 2.0 Paris Summit with some additional […]
Social as Enabler for Digital Transformation (or is it the new Black?)
It’s been a while since I’ve been to CeBIT in Hanover. At its height during the late 90s and early 2000s, the time of the dot-com boom, it had over 800,000 visitors and covered everything form of technology from consumer electronics to enterprise IT. The consumer electronics part happens elsewhere now but it has a dozen […]
CeBIT 2014: The Next Phase Of Social Collaboration
We are at a critical point in the evolution of enterprise software and enterprise computing in general. I make that distinction because when we say software, we tend to think transactional software that powers functions such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Capital Management (HCM), and the like. And that sub-consciously limits our thinking and […]
Product Review: Inside SAP’s Line-of-Business OnDemand Strategy
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 […]
SAP @ CeBIT and Sales OnDemand
With the introduction of Sales OnDemand at CeBIT today, SAP has made plain its strategy for moving its customers to the cloud or whatever you want to call it. SAP is fundamentally offering a hybrid strategy that enables its customers to dip a toe in the water and migrate over time. Most major vendors with […]
