“SAP is at its best when it is hungriest” – a conversation with Nick Tzitzon
You have read analysis from me and others about SapphireNow. I wanted to get a post-conference perspective from a SAP executive and I caught up with Nick Tzitzon, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communications Overall Vibe It can be tempting to look at so many different things and slice and dice the success of an […]
SAP and Outsourcers: Fool me twice, shame on me
I am often asked why I was tough on SAP in SAP Nation. I usually correct them and say I was tough on SAP’s partners and how SAP did a poor job monitoring and managing them. I must say I groaned when I saw the SAP announcement where it plans to team with Accenture, Capgemni and Deloitte […]
Salesforce is vulnerable
By all accounts, at SapphireNow this week, CRM will be a major focus. And the bullseye will be on Salesforce. Ho hum? Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, Zoho and many others have been targeting Salesforce for a while. So, join the chase. No, the biggest threat to Salesforce comes from within. Here are three angles Economics Several […]
SAP: Past, Present and Future
Readers know my favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. User conferences are fine, but I always feel we intrude there on customer time. In the past, SAP has done such summits in silos – focused on a products like Ariba or industries. So, I was glad it convened one across its wide portfolio […]
Oracle MCX: We’re not in Kansas anymore
I did not get much notice for the Oracle MCX event in Chicago this week, so could only spend a day there, but even in that short timeframe I got the vibe over and over that things are finally humming in the CRM marketplace, or as Oracle calls it the Modern Customer Experience space. We […]
SAPs new ERP pricing model: Quick analysis
SAP pre-briefed me on the new ERP pricing they announced this morning. It is meant to dampen the angst in the customer base about high-profile Indirect Access disputes which have become public in the last year. CEO Bill McDermott had announced an initiative to tackle the concerns at SapphireNow last May. Three items of note in the announcement: a) […]
Microsoft PowerApps and Citizen Code
One of the most interesting sessions during the Microsoft Analyst Summit last week was one on PowerApps. The look and feel leverages the fonts and other features most of us are familiar with in MS Office. It’s in Microsoft lingo “True WYSIWYG”. They leverage a Common Data Service and come with hundreds of standard business […]
Microsoft Business Applications Analyst Forum – a scorecard
Readers know my favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. I have written extensively about Workday, Salesforce, Oracle, Plex and other summits on this blog and at New Florence. Interestingly, while other vendors have been perfecting the art of the analyst summit (see here, here and here) Microsoft which used to run a very informative and enjoyable annual […]
Enterprise Software Platforms have underperformed
My first exposure to a software “platform” was back in 1983 when McCormack and Dodge introduced Millennium and started to migrate all its modules to have the same look and feel, extensibility, queries and other features. I was part of a team rolling out a wide range of functionality across refineries and other units at […]
Will SAP lead the next generation of enterprise applications?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 15, 2018
Franck Cohen, President SAP Digital Core & Industry Solutions, presented the slide below at SapphireNow last week. He did not spend much time on it and I would likely have not thought much of it if he had not shown it in an earlier meeting. It is a simple slide yet could herald the next […]
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