Business Two Zero

I wrote about Facebook taking over the world last week, when they made the platform announcement at their f8 conference. You know this kind of technology is becoming a real cultural phenomenon when you start to see references to it in places you wouldn’t expect. I opened my July copy of Empire magazine (which happens […]

For some reason my public photos loaded to Flickr weren’t appearing in tag searches or RSS feeds from Flickr. I posted a question on the forums and community member wooble explained that my account was set as safe but NIPSA (Not In Public Site Areas), probably because it had been classified before they changed their […]

In the current, connected world you are bombarded by content, and new services competing for your attention. I’m a big proponent of social networks, and I’ve been trying out Ning as both a user (with OpenCoffee Club) and a provider (with London Wiki Wednesdays), and it looks to be quite a reasonable platform to connect […]

I’m not going to be able to make either today or next week’s OpenCoffee Club, which is a great shame. I’ve got in to the habit of trying to arrange London meetings on a Thursday, so I can drop in and meet new people. Last week I was there with my business partner David Wynn, […]

Bloggers, analysts and the press were hosted in the same area of the mega SAPPHIRE 07 show last week, although there was limited mixing of the 3 communities, even though we attended many of the briefings together. Duncan Jones, a senior analyst with Forrester stumbled upon the Bloggers corner in search of a compatible power […]

One of the most refreshing sessions we had at SAPPHIRE 07 was when SAP’s Senior VP of Market Strategy, Pascal Brosset, dropped by the Bloggers corner. Pascal is a straight talking Frenchman, who SAP need to put in front of more people, because he absolutely understands the Software as a Service market, and did a […]

The first thing to say is that Mike Prosceno and Stacey Fish have excelled themselves in providing us Bloggers high level access to senior SAP executives at this show. Beyond that, nothing seems too much trouble to sort out. Some examples - I hadn’t picked up a pass for the underground and the trams, but […]

Yesterday at SAPPHIRE 07 Hans-Peter Klaey talked about their current success in the mid-market as of SAP’s best kept secret. As well as explaining their future strategy with A1S and the other products, he explained that they already have 26,000 SME customers, which is 65% of the customer base. He threw out the following statistics […]

Henning Kagermann seemed slightly nervous for the first few words of his keynote speech at SAPPHIRE 07 yesterday, almost as if he had so much to say but wasn’t sure where to start. That thought soon disappeared as he got in to his stride, and seemed much more animated than I’ve seen him before. By […]

My fellow Enterprise Irregular Bruno Haid excelled himself as host on Sunday in Vienna. As well giving me a great walking tour of the city, which mixed the architecture of the museum quarter , palaces, coffee shops and the art of Gustav Klimt (did every student have some of his art as posters on their […]