What happened to the SAP I knew?
As an innovation author, I generally like to look ahead. But the mysterious time machine that is LinkedIn will often bring back colleagues and friends I have long lost touch with. A recent re-acquaintance reminded me I first encountered SAP 25 years ago installing R/2 in a Price Waterhouse data center in the then re-emerging […]
Life after SAP
For the first time in a while I missed SapphireNow this year, and yet through some unplanned scheduling got to be around a bunch of SAP alums, ex-partners and ex-customers. I was invited to present to SAP alum at the AtelierSAP event which preceded SapphireNow in Orlando. A lunch conversation with Paul Wahl, former US […]
SAP’s new NetWeaver 7.3 has a nice energy efficiency story
If, like me, you have been using technology for a while now, you will be used to the constant release-by-release bloating of software. The first time I installed Excel it was version 2.2 and at the time it fit comfortable on a 1.4mb 3.5″ floppy disk – remember floppy disks? In a pleasant bucking […]
SAP Goes On-demand
While the reigning crown prince of on-demand held court at Dreamforce last week, a pretender to the throne threw down the gauntlet and made its first full-court, concerted press into the future perfect of the enterprise software market. Day two of SAP’s analyst summit was an all-day marathon of product roadmaps, demos, and discussions that […]
SAP Teched Berlin coming up
I’m off to Berlin tomorrow evening, to spend two days at SAP Teched. photo via cc of Svenwerk. Thanks. Earlier this year, SAP did a good job at Sapphire in laying out more compelling vision. I expect Teched to be about adding some details to that vision, and I’m looking of evidence of execution: These […]
Polls and Surveys: Sapphire 2010 – On The Ground Collaborative Research
Collaborative Research Process At Work I’m pleased to say, that I’ll be joining fellow Enterprise Irregulars – Michael Cote, Larry Dignan, Michael Krigsman, and Vinnie Mirchandani; SAP Mentors – Dennis Howlett and Jon Reed, along with esteemed journalist Thomas Wailgum from CIO magazine to gauge the sentiment of SAP users. We may be adding a […]
News Analysis: Salesforce.com and VMware Up The Ante In The Cloud Wars With VMforce
VMWare and Salesforce.com Battle For The Hearts And Minds Of Cloud-Oriented Java Developers On April 27th, 2010, Salesforce.com, [NYSE: CRM] and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) formed VMforce, a strategic alliance to create a deployment environment for Java based apps in the cloud. The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering builds on Java, Spring, VMware vSphere, and Force.com. Key […]
The Need for Timely Software – SAP TechEd 2009
There was no giant news at SAP TehcEd Phoenix a few weeks ago, but in the nooks and crannies there were some previews of things to come and the drawn-out proving of SAP’s notion of “timeless software,” or “pace layering,” as James likes to call it. But, a technology company can’t be judged entirely by […]
NetWeaver update #SAPTechEd09
Image via Wikipedia Marge Breya is responsible for a huge portfolio of SAP products, including SOA, BPM and the BusinessObjects BI unit – that is, pretty much all the SAP stuff that I’m interested in. At an analyst/blogger roundtable this afternoon, she gave a quick overview of the high-level strategy for NetWeaver, and had Wolfgang […]
