Business Two Zero

Yesterday, in New York at the Nokia theatre and broadcasting across the web, SAP formally announced their new, mid-market solution, which up to this point has gone by the code name of A1S.  Bill Wohl hoped that he would be the last SAP executive to use the term, and Henning Kagerman, the CEO, then introduced […]

That might be a good title for a song by Little Feat, but actually I’m voicing the frustration that my Enterprise Irregular blogging chums are having fun over at SAP’s SAPPHIRE 07 conference. I get the chance to join in when the show hits Vienna in two weeks, but in the meantime I have to attend vicariously […]

Over at Rough Type yesterday, Nicholas Carr has a post with the juicy headline ‘SAP CEO calls SaaS “the better model”‘. It’s generated a fair amount of controversy amongst the Irregulars - I’ll link to the related posts as they come out. Earlier in the year I reported my thoughts following their first pre-announcement when […]

I’ve just seen a press release from our friends at Gartner, trailing their Gartner Outsourcing Summit, March 19-21 in Dallas. They say the worldwide SaaS market reached $6.3 billion in 2006 and is forecast to grow to $19.3 billion by year-end 2011. There were a few quotes I just had to pick out.
At one point […]

Yesterday Sage (UK) Limited finally announced the release of Sage 50 Accounts Professional Online 2007, its first move into the hosted accounting software market, although it was first mentioned by them as long ago as 2005.  Their press release says that recent Sage research revealed that more than a third of customers would be interested […]

Yesterday I posted about Windows PC vs. Mac, as well as Windows XP vs. Vista.  In several places I’ve seen a quote from eWeek that says: “Only 15 percent of today’s computers are capable of running Windows Vista Home Premium, considered to be the mainstream consumer version, according to Gartner.”So […]

Earlier I posted my impressions of the new SAP, my thoughts on SDN, and Shai Agassi’s keynote presentations.  My overall impression is that I met some very smart people with good ideas and learned a lot.  One of the smart people was Chris Hearn, Product Marketing Director.  SAP are keen to emphasise their openness, and open […]

At the SAP conference last week I sat through Shai Agassi’s keynote presentations for both the EMEA Enterprise Services Partner Summit and SAP TechEd ‘06, as well as an open session with press and bloggers.  He’s got an easy, relaxed style and more than one SAPper at this show suggested to me that half the […]

 
At SAP TechEd, we got the chance to question some of their senior executives over the SAP strategy on Software as a Service or on-demand.  Shai Agassi had mentioned the topic in his keynote session as “just another deployment option” which they provide for their customers as well.  Later at a press briefing we got […]

Because recently I’ve been operating away from my roots in the ERP world, it’s been at least 5 years since I’ve really seriously looked at what is going on at SAP.  I’m getting a first hand glimpse as one of the bloggers invited to SAP TechEd in Amsterdam this week.  As I posted before, there […]