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 […]
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 […]
SAP: When you come to a fork in the road, Take it!
“Who pays when the SAP data center goes on strike and the solution is down?” Data Center going on strike? That portion of a quote from Hermann-Josef Haag, spokesperson for the DSAG HR management working group made me stop in my tracks. In 20 years of covering cloud applications I have seen most clients protect themselves […]
Oracle Database: Solid for Now
Kicking the year off, Information.com ran a story which said “But Mr. Ellison’s comments about Amazon and Salesforce don’t tell the whole story. In reality, both companies are actively working to replace Oracle software running on critical business systems with open-source database software alternatives, and have made significant progress toward getting off Oracle entirely, according to people […]
Dont write off SAP yet
It would be easy to be pessimistic about SAP when you read Dennis Howlett’s recent blog “It’s a hot mess and everyone, whether that is SAP, customers, partners or User Group people want it to go away. The issue comes in finding a solution.” The “mess” is what used to be irritation at individual SAP customers about […]
Of Halloween and Enterprise Software
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” I don’t know – for what companies pay for enterprise software they should be allowed to be a lot more picky.
Microsoft Business Applications Analyst Forum – a scorecard
By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 16, 2018
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 […]
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