http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/03/01/oracle-puts-bi-sector-into-play/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:48:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/03/01/oracle-puts-bi-sector-into-play/comment-page-1/#comment-83275 its4us2think Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:36:43 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/03/01/oracle-puts-bi-sector-into-play/#comment-83275 Your point about SAP is missing the point is right on!. SAP is still thinking like a giant who controls their customers. It does not matter how good a product is, customers (read IT department) are not going to take chance with new things. Currently, there are lot of shrink wrapped things that have been bought but not used, so customers are not going to make huge ticket buys except for maintenance and upgrades. Big growth will come from SMB and RCO (resource constrained org), and they dont need any IT department, logically SaaS is the next big thing. But for companies like SAP and ORCL, SaaS would mean lot of changes and no million dollar sales to write home about!! Your point about SAP is missing the point is right on!. SAP is still thinking like a giant who controls their customers. It does not matter how good a product is, customers (read IT department) are not going to take chance with new things. Currently, there are lot of shrink wrapped things that have been bought but not used, so customers are not going to make huge ticket buys except for maintenance and upgrades.
Big growth will come from SMB and RCO (resource constrained org), and they dont need any IT department, logically SaaS is the next big thing. But for companies like SAP and ORCL, SaaS would mean lot of changes and no million dollar sales to write home about!!

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