SapphireNow – is SAP poised to lead the industry again?
I went to SapphireNow in Orlando. I am getting requests to write an update to SAP Nation. There is plenty I could write about – how thousands of SAP customers are trying out one or more of the “coping strategies” I had outlined in the book to manage their exposure to SAP and partners – […]
SapphireNow: Too Little, Too Late?
I was in California last week relishing NetSuite’s SuiteWorld – and its two decades of cloud maturity and growing industry functionality as I summarized here. I happened to see a 8 page color SAP insert in the Wall Street Journal and I shook my head at drivel like “When you Run Live, you Run Simple. […]
Facebook LIVE with SAP’s Millennial CIO: ‘Customer satisfaction is a competitive advantage’
Discussions about digital transformation and the CIO role usually evolve toward one of two conclusions: CIOs are destined to become stewards of infrastructure, more or less disconnected from broader business strategy. Call this the doom and gloom case. Digital transformation has created a golden era of CIO opportunity, where IT can participate in the most […]
Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine
Personalised medicine is where a patient’s DNA is sequenced, as is the DNA of their tumour (in the case of cancer), and an individualised treatment, specific to the genotype of their cancer is designed and applied.
SAPPHIRE 2015: SAP, Amazeballs, but you’d never know it, and that’s sad
SAP’s annual conference has a long lineage and is arguably one of the most important – and very revealing – conferences in the technology world. They are always amazing and always puzzling. Paul Greenberg explains the conundrum.
SapphireNow 2015 Day 1 Keynote with Bill McDermott
Happy Cinco de Mayo! I’m back in Orlando for the giant SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG conference to catch up with the product people and hear about what organizations are doing with SAP solutions. If you’re not here, you can catch the keynotes and some of the other sessions online either in real time or […]
Technology in healthcare, a post-Sapphirenow update
As noted here recently, technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry. And that was brought home to us forcefully when we attended SAP’s 2014 Sapphirenow conference last week. I had fifteen meetings scheduled at the event, and while there wasn’t much mention of healthcare during the keynotes, seven of my fifteen meetings were healthcare related. […]
SAP Jam: Ready for enterprise collaboration
Enterprise social software is maturing and the latest entry from SAP is worth your time to investigate.
The Week of May 12th, 2014 Is One Of The Busiest In Enterprise Software Conferences
Ten Enterprise Software Events To Check Out And Follow The Week of May 12th, 2014 The Monday after Mother’s day was traditionally the week of the America’s SAP User Group and SAP’s big show, SAPPHIRENOW. However, this year the 20,000 plus attendee and over 250 partner sponsored show moved to June 2nd in order to […]
News Analysis: SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka Resigns, What Does It Mean For SAP Customers?
Departure of CTO Signals Change In Long Term Direction In a press release this morning, SAP announced a management reorganization and the departure of Vishal Sikka, SAP’s executive board member of products and innovation and CTO (see Figure 1). The reorganization puts Bernd Leukert as Vishal’s immediate replacement to lead global development. The role of […]
