Vishal Sikka on SAP’s Challenges, Futures, and Realities
The odds of sitting down with a senior executive of a major technology company and being surprised and enlightened are one in a million because typically they sit down with a prepared agenda and, with the benefit of years and years of media training, religiously stay on message turning every question back to the thing [...]
SAP’s Community Experiments
UPDATE: Jevon pointed out that the links require reg… I’ll check into that because I thought that these were all public.
SAP Global Marketing invited a bunch of people to participate in a meatspace and virtual space community event this week. There’s lots of good stuff going on, indeed, I am finding the blog postings, presentations, [...]
Harmony When It’s Delivered
I wrote about Harmony over a year ago… it’s absolutely criminal that something this interesting couldn’t get developed and into customer hands more quickly. Dan has a good post about this innovative product project.
SAP doesn’t yet offer Web 2.0-style social networking capabilities in its solutions that tap into the wisdom of [...]
Shai Agassi Resigns – WOW
Wow is all I can say, didn’t see that one coming at all. In fact, given Shai’s position and the perks that it afforded I figured he would stay even though Leo would ultimately get the CEO position. Speaking of Leo, what the hell is “Deputy CEO“? Has anyone ever heard of such a title? [...]
Microsoft Acquiring SAP Rumor (again)
There is yet another rumor circulating about Microsoft acquiring SAP, let’s call this one “version 3,453.2″. I’m not that plugged into SAP anymore so take my comments here with that in mind.
To me this makes no sense at all. Sure Microsoft wants to get a bigger piece of the pie in big enterprise accounts and [...]
Blogger Relations at Adobe, Oracle and SAP (and a bit of IBM, Microsoft, Sun)
James posted a really good piece on the different approaches that the big vendors are taking with regard to bloggers. There’s one quote in here that I want to highlight and address:
Of course Jeff Nolan was instrumental in getting SAP more blog savvy, but anyone that gives him sole credit for the company’s efforts is [...]
Double take
Here’s the headline for the story: Thanks to Graf, Agassi rackets stay in the familyNow coming from SAP my first thought was not to think of professional tennis.
SAP BusinessOne – the analysis
Dennis put together a thoughtful analysis of SAP’s BusinessOne product offering. For those of you that are not familiar with this product, it is the result of an acquisition we made and features a complete SMB product offering for accounting, MRP, and CRM with additional functionality for retail storefront, logistics and wholesale distribution. I’m [...]
SAP Facts (Chuck Norris style)
SAP Facts (Chuck Norris style): (via James Governor)
SAP is such a great software that initially there weren’t any errors. But in order to have any work to do at all, they made up some bugs
and not to be outdone, Loek has a very good Quote of the Day:
“SAP is somewhat like a Tamagotchi: if you [...]
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise Think Tank
Today I participated in a “think tank” session organized by SAP Labs and the World Internet Center. In addition to a bunch of my SAP colleagues there were individuals from Google, Zoho, Abgeneal, Dojo, StrkeIron, nStein Technologies, and Socialtext.
This has been a pretty interesting day on a number of fronts, most significantly because it illustrates [...]
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