Business Two Zero

I’ve just arrived back from a very enjoyable 3 days in Berlin at SAP’s TechEd 2008 conference. The theme was “Connect, Collaborate, Co-innovate” and I could see plenty of connections, some good examples of collaboration, and one stand-out example of co-innovation (called ESME - more on that in a later post). It started with Community […]

By the time I post this I will be in San Francisco for a collection of WordFrame partner meetings and then the Office 2.0 show. I attended Ismael Ghalimi’s first event based around the trend towards web based office and enterprise productivity back in 2006, but missed out last year. This year I’ll be one […]

On Monday, both in their trading statement, and to their personnel around the world, the well known mid-range and enterprise accounting software company CODA announced that they are in the due diligence phase of being acquired by Unit 4 Agresso. Unit 4 is a Dutch software company formed in 1980 that merged with Agresso, a […]

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 […]

On Friday my old friends at CODA announced they are developing a new, on-demand, Software as a Service accounting application, and then yesterday they announced a strategic partnership with Salesforce.com.  I reported it on blognation yesterday, and Dennis blogged about it at ZDNet and AccMan. 
I think this is good news for the online accounting solutions […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’ve just been talking to Dennis on the way back home from SAPPHIRE 07 in Atlanta, while he’s waiting in Madrid airport for the next plane home to Andalucía. It sounds like SAP did a great job of hosting the bloggers and giving them access to senior executives, so they could be grilled on strategy […]