Sage Life: Sage and Salesforce Do the Expected
Sage and Salesforce put on a love fest on Tuesday to announce their partnership in which Sage has developed Sage Life, a product to enable small companies to connect their “customer, accounting, payroll and finance data into one system, accessible from any device, anywhere,” according to the press release. The wording leaves it unclear if […]
Crunch Time for Salesforce and Sage (and you and me)
Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff Some of the drama over the rumored acquisition of Salesforce.com by a larger software industry rival could come to a head today when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his Sage counterpart, Stephen Kelly, share a joint press conference in San Francisco. For weeks the rumor that Salesforce was being courted have […]
Microsoft Shrugs (Salesforce? nah!)
Well, how about them apples? In a Reuters article out today, Microsoft said it wasn’t really pursuing Salesforce at this time citing the high cost—about $50 billion for the market cap and what must be calculated for a premium likely to be extracted from any would-be suitor. As I have been saying, the time when […]
Duped By Linear Thinking
I feel like such a dope. About once a year some rumor circulates about Salesforce being bought and speculation runs rampant for a few days about who the suitor is and what the likely scenario will be in the march to the altar. This week saw the annual festival. I never thought it was a […]
Sage and Salesforce: Odd Couple Alliance?
I have been expecting this announcement for a long time but it still came as a surprise when Keith Block, vice chairman Salesforce, made an off the cuff remark in Boston at the Salesforce World Tour event last week. In February Sage and Salesforce announced that they’d work together with Sage moving some of its […]
Sage’s up-market solution: Is X3 ready for North American market?
Sage ERP X3 has hit a new level of technological sophistication and market relevance. Will the firm put the resources together to help this product line take off in the North American marketplace? A key customer visit adds insight.
SAP’s UI makeover: Taking a measured approach to 300,000 screens
Last week I discussed how Sage Group plc is creating a data cloud that will bring new navigation, capabilities and functionality to Sage customers. It’s an approach that sets the stage for an overhaul of their product line. Today, I’ll cover the efforts SAP is undertaking to breathe new life into existing products. First some […]
Sage Data Cloud, new UI and other re-tooling progress
Imagine you run R&D for a major software firm. Your employer has grown the company massively over the last couple of decades with acquisitions of competing and complementary product lines. You now have to support and enhance dozens of product lines, product architectures, etc. Unfortunately, pure-play competitors are now introducing all-new applications at a dizzying […]
2013 ERP Market Share Update: SAP Solidifies Market Leadership
During 2012 the worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market experienced sluggish growth of just 2.2%, yet Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), financial management and Human Capital Management (HCM) applications showed potential for breakout growth. Through the challenging times of the previous year however, SAP still retained worldwide market share leadership. These and other insights were recently published in […]
Sage Charts Its Course
Pascal Houillon, the CEO of Sage North America, has been at the job for a bit over a year. He took over the reins at last year’s Sage Summit where he famously introduced a new branding exercise. Houillon’s idea was to make Sage a more prominent brand by de-emphasizing the individual product names, in many […]
