Oracle OpenWorld enhanced expectations
Oracle OpenWorld started Sunday. I am attending with more enhanced expectations than I have in previous years. As a baseline, I expect to hear updates on Oracle SaaS – financials, HR, ERP, CRM and on the NetSuite business unit. With a very strong 1Q where application revenues went up 62% year-on-year, it will be interesting […]
IFS extends its vertical focus
Readers know I think the software market is at a pivot point. We have plenty of hr, financial and basic CRM functionality, but very little in the way of industry specific functionality. I have always liked IFS’s focus on complex, often heavily-regulated, asset-intensive industries and on product and asset centric break-fix and maintenance-based service organizations. […]
Rimini Street: The next chapter
People still think of Rimini as a cut rate, third party maintenance provider for on-premise Oracle, SAP, IBM and Microsoft software. That was Rimini 1.0. In a talk series I did with them last year, I saw Rimini 2.0. Because they support customizations, not just the core software, I heard their customers and prospects talk […]
SuccessConnect- a higher calling?
We live in troubled times. They call for principled leadership, standing up for values, and for ignoring our darker angels. Whether that was the intention of SuccessConnect or not, I certainly walked away from the event with that message. Rob Enslin, President of SAP’s Cloud Business Group kicked off the event with a focus on […]
Oracle Cloud Apps 13: A pivot point?
Oracle Cloud Applications Release 13 – its bi-annual cloud applications release – announced last week solidifies the company’s position as the industry’s broadest suite – across ERP, HCM, CRM and SCM domains. Oracle has been at work on this for over a decade now, and it shows that competitors like SAP and Infor who want to […]
SAP Smooth and Relaxed?
Let me start off by saying I am really pleased I went to SapphireNow this year. I saw what I called the “dawn of intelligent applications” with Leonardo. I liked CEO Bill McDermott promising to do more for customers about toxic contract terms. I liked that the partner booths appeared much smaller than few Sapphires ago – […]
Product Management, Hopping and Localization.
(Taking some liberty with the facts). Imagine for a moment you are the product manager for augmented /autonomous driving at Volvo. You have got every different type of snow and ice covered. You have figured out how to find parking at IKEA, at the back of the store where you collect the Billy Bookcases on the mind of its own trolley. (You […]
SAP Leonardo: The dawn of intelligent applications
At SapphrieNow a few weeks ago, SAP’s Hasso Plattner painted the vision of “Intelligent Applications” to include Intelligent Transactions – automate high-frequency repetitive tasks Analytics – make data-driven insights available to everybody Collaboration – tap into the collective intelligence of knowledge workers Digital Assistant – provide the right answer at the right time SAP also […]
6 Ways Cloud ERP Is Revolutionizing How Services Deliver Results
Cloud ERP is the fastest growing sector of the global ERP market with services-based businesses driving the majority of new revenue growth. Legacy Services ERP providers excel at meeting professional & consulting services information needs yet often lack the flexibility and speed to support entirely new services business models. Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) is quickly emerging as a must-have […]
Cloud, Digital: a Continental Divide?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 27, 2017
DSAG, the SAP user group for German speaking Europe, shared results of a recent survey involving more than 500 decision-makers from IT and various business units. Reading it I was struck by similarities and differences between how the US and European (with the DSAG base as a large proxy) markets view cloud computing and digital transformation opportunities […]
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