Punching Soup - Tag: erp

Friday’s Feature: Workday Release 10 Moves Users One Step Closer To ERP Replacement

R "Ray" Wang — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:49:47 -0700

Workday Continues To Pioneer SaaS Success In The Enterprise Founded by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri in March 2005, Workday has grown the company to over 135 customers with 80+ companies in production, 17 enterprise payroll companies, and over 400 employees in 50 countries worldwide. Key industries include services, technology, financial [...]

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The Expanding Gap Between On-Premise and SaaS Solutions

Brian Sommer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:32:17 -0700

SaaS and On-Premise solutions are growing further apart, not closer. The innovation within SaaS vendors is fast, furious and focused. It's also embarassing to on-premise vendors.

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Is SaaS the same as cloud?

Phil Wainewright — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:30:21 -0700

From the customer’s perspective, it’s all the same. If it’s provided over the Internet on a pay-for-usage basis, it’s a cloud service. Within the industry, we argue about definitions more than is good for us. Customers look in from the outside and see a much simpler array of choices. Why is this important? It matters to [...]

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The Cost Difference Between On-Premise and SaaS

Brian Sommer — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:26:20 -0700

The SaaS vs. On-Premise cost differential turns out to be quite significant. Large enterprises are starting to embrace SaaS applications for more than cost reasons.

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The Sleek and the Geek @ SAP

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:56:00 -0700

Need more proof that being co-CEOS is an awkward situation? Watch this SiliconAngle video between 0:20 and 0:35 Of course you can watch the whole thing… and read these reports of the press event: Oracle Who? SAP Co-CEOs Slam Oracle – They Are The Old Way SAP State of The Union: The CEOs Talk Oracle, SaaS [...]

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Google Launches Apps Marketplace

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:00:00 -0700

I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners. The new Marketplace fills [...]

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The IT Industry’s Shame

Vinnie Mirchandani — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:45:44 -0700

The last few months have been joyful. I have had a chance to mingle with a number of innovators as I wrote my book. Many are focused on the Grand Challenges the word faces - environmental, engineering etc. It is...

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Monday’s Musings: Decoupling Support From Maintenance – What Apps Vendors Can Learn From Microsoft Dynamics

R "Ray" Wang — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:30:24 -0700

Who Says Support Has To Be Bundled With Maintenance? About a decade back, vendors would offer support and maintenance as two separate line items on their contracts. Support would run about 5 to 10% the license fee and so would maintenance. Keep in mind, average support and maintenance fees were under 15% back then. Here’s a [...]

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Tuesday’s Tip: When To Go With A Two-Tier ERP Strategy

R "Ray" Wang — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:38:28 -0700

Single Instance ERP Harder And Harder To Justify The holy grail of an ERP implementation used to be the single instance deployment. However, market forces, a move to adopt new disruptive technologies, slow pace of innovation from incumbent vendors, and high maintenance fees have changed many organization’s perspectives. Add a slew of rapidly changing business requirements [...]

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Who’s to blame for “Excel hell?”

Thomas Otter — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:11:57 -0700

My blogging mojo had left the building for a while, but for better or worse it returned today. When I speak to enterprise software vendors they often moan about Excel. They say it is not secure, and that most spreadsheets contain errors. They preach about the dangers of information silos, of decisions made on old and [...]

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Why isnt enterprise software more like BMW? And National Hurricane Center?

Vinnie Mirchandani — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:35:10 -0700

Marc Benioff asks “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?”. And Charles Zedlewski of SAP responds a better question should be “Why isn’t all enterprise software like amazon?” Hey, it is good that enterprise software is looking to more consumery...

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SAP’s Vishal Sikka on SaaS

Phil Wainewright — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:19:03 -0700

Published here for the first time, my interview last summer with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka may shed some light on the company's intentions for SaaS and cloud after its tumultuous management shake-up last week.

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Is Business Intelligence the Answer to Supplier and Supply Chain Management?

Jason Busch — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:56:00 -0700

Over on Supply Chain Management Review, an article by two Wipro consultants suggests that business intelligence (BI) software, such as the kind acquired by SAP and Oracle in recent years, is key to building supply chain visibility. The two argue that...

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SAP keeps it interesting!

Dennis Moore — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:20:00 -0700

Even more changes under way at SAP. First, SAP announced a major shake-up in mid-January. Next, this past Sunday, SAP's CEO abruptly left the company and was replaced by co-CEO's.Today, the other shoe dropped. Several pieces of news were announced, ...

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Bob Evans: SAPs Primary Competitor

Vinnie Mirchandani — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:22:18 -0700

Best piece of advice Bob at Information Week gives Hasso Plattner in an “open letter” is quit the asinine focus on Oracle as “primary competitor”. That is aiming way too low. He says: “Rather, SAP's top competitor is cloud computing...

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Enterprise Software : The Moments Of Pause

Sadagopan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:59:00 -0700

Image via Wikipedia SAP announced major executive board level changes on Sunday. Léo Apotheker moves out out as CEO and in comes Bill McDermott, head of the field operations, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development, who will now share the top job. Interestingly, SAP promoted Vishal Sika, chief technology officer (CTO) to the [...]

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6 billion moving forward – 150 million holding us back

Vinnie Mirchandani — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:45:06 -0700

There was another flurry of media/analyst/blogger activity around SAP yesterday as Dr. Hasso Plattner explained the way forward after Leo Apotheker resigned. I did not attend that press conference. Just like I did not the 5+ hour media circus around...

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SAP E-Sourcing Watch: The Rumors of Frictionless’ Death May be Exaggerated

Jason Busch — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:18:00 -0700

There has been much chatter in the market of late about the eventual migration away from Frictionless (also described internally at SAP and with partners as the "bridge" platform). I recently had the chance to catch up with Marko Navala, who not long...

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Enterprise Software in Harvest Mode

Tom Foydel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:24:49 -0700

Over the weekend I met a fellow in a local hardware who was looking for some very unusual screws. We got to talking and I found out that he supplements his retirement pension by re-conditioning dental chairs, of all things. Evidently it’s a decent money maker for him and he enjoys the hobby. The conversation started me [...]

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Changes at #SAP

Dennis Moore — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:38:00 -0700

This weekend, it was announced that Leo Apotheker was leaving SAP immediately. Leo had been SAP’s CEO. Replacing Leo would be co-CEO’s Jim Snabe (focusing on technology) and Bill McDermott (focusing on sales). Also announced was the elevation of Vishal Sikka, the company’s CTO, to SAP’s Executive Board (the management board). Recently, it [...]

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Enterprise software is entirely bereft of soul

Vinnie Mirchandani — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:53:21 -0700

I was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software. Without batting an eyelid, he asked me “Are you...

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Co-CEO: a Good Concept? Or Desperate Measure?

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:58:50 -0700

That was the fun part. After all, it's Sunday. Now read the story here:

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News Analysis: SAP’s CEO Léo Apotheker Resigns

R "Ray" Wang — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:41:28 -0700

(Cross posted from A Software Insider’s Point of View) Rumors began circulating early this weekend that Léo Apotehker’s contract would not be renewed. The highest level sources had confirmed this early in the morning and the afternoon press release provided confirmation of the details. A few key facts: SAP moves back to Co-CEO management structure. Bill McDermott, [...]

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NetSuite’s Revenue in light of the bigger ERP revenue question

Brian Sommer — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:11:54 -0700

Earnings reports and channel checks suggest SaaS vendors are making in-roads in the ERP space. On-premise vendors may be at risk although the effect of acquisitions makes it hard to ascertain within their financial statements.

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ERP failure: New research and statistics

Michael Krigsman — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:02:51 -0700

Panorama Consulting today released results of a study comparing gaps between customer expectations and actual results achieved on ERP projects.

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Where Business Process Meets 2.0

Susan Scrupski — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:40:09 -0700

The 2.0 Adoption Council is experimenting with a range of new market ideas that leverage the power of the social web. The 2.0 thinking surrounding network effects, scale, voluntary collaboration, free (as a business model), and social performance/productivity improvements are just a sample of some of the drivers that have made the Council thrive. [...]

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Where next for Shared Services and Operational Excellence?

Brian Sommer — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:58:48 -0700

Are the big gains from ERP, quality programs, shared services and other techniques and technologies losing their ability to deliver big benefits? What else can companies do to further their operational excellence goals?

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Middle America’s Manufacturers Adopt SaaS ERP

Phil Wainewright — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:13:46 -0700

Listen to my conversation with Mark Symonds, CEO of Plex Systems, which delivers ERP software-as-a-service to mid-market manufacturing companies. In this podcast, learn why middle America’s manufacturing companies are turning to SaaS to operate their business systems, and find out what sort of business is most likely to adopt a SaaS solution as the logical delivery [...]

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The Changing Software Partner Ecosystem

Brian Sommer — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:41:08 -0700

Resellers of SMB ERP products and other application software partners are experiencing a changing solutions world. Presenters at the Progress Software Global Partner Conference gave some great insights into these changes.

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Friday Rant: SAP – Betting on the Half-Life of the Frictionless On-Demand Platform

Jason Busch — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:06:00 -0700

I've written about SAP's Frictionless acquisition countless times on Spend Matters -- what it meant initially, the advantages it provided SAP, its disadvantages, and how the platform would ultimately become part of a broader On-Demand strate...

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2010 Prediction: The Year ERP (SAP, Oracle, and Infor) Get Spend Management Right

Jason Busch — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:11:00 -0700

This second prediction for 2010 is bound to generate some controversy (read the first here). After all, ERP providers have lost one opportunity after another to consolidate the Spend Management market in recent years, giving best-of-breed provi...

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SAP Customers: I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows..

Vinnie Mirchandani — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:50:44 -0700

…but unlike in the movie Network, don’t open the window, don’t stick your head out and don’t yell “I am mad as hell.” Instead make a phone call…more about that it a minute. SAP today announced “that it will reinstate...

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News Analysis: SAP Revives Two-Tier Maintenance Options

R "Ray" Wang — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:24:16 -0700

Standard Support Returns After Much Deliberation SAP announced today that they would be reintroducing their standards support offering. Customers now gain choice with a 2-tier maintenance offering. Here are the details between standard support and enterprise support. Standard Support Offering reintroduces at 18%. Customers seeking core bug fixes, support packages, risk mitigation, and related new functionality will [...]

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Handicapping the SAP/Oracle Procurement Race

Jason Busch — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:08:00 -0700

In sports, it's common to handicap competitors. This allows observers of the game -- not to mention those actually participating in the festivities -- to better understand how they stack up to their peers. Now, many factors can comprise a ha...

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News Analysis: Lawson Software Closes Healthvision Acquisition for $160M, Deepens Healthcare Specialization

R "Ray" Wang — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:46:54 -0700

Lawson Acquisition Brings Healthcare Focused ERP To Last-Mile Patient Management Solutions On January 11th, 2010, Lawson Software announced it had closed a $160M all cash offer for Healthvision, a healthcare software solution headquartered in Dallas, TX. The deal continues Lawson’s deep commitment to industry verticalization and is notable because the deal: Expands Lawson’s vertical footprint in [...]

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If Social Media will be like Air, Enterprise 2.0 will be like Carbon

Susan Scrupski — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:40:01 -0700

The year I transferred from a small, liberal State college to the ginormous State University, I started the fall semester with a bevy of difficult subjects: Chemistry, Calculus, Introduction to Philosophy, and Abnormal Psychology. When I showed up for my first day of Chemistry, little did I know I had entered the wrong classroom. I was [...]

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NetSuite: Hyperbole and the credibility gap

Michael Krigsman — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:18:11 -0700

Let's face it, enterprise software is pretty dry, but sometimes there's drama -- even if it's kind of lame.

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Thingamy with ESME points to where enterprise 2.0 is heading

David Terrar — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:18:53 -0700

Yesterday I got the “lowdown” on how Thingamy, which Sigurd Rinde describes as a “Work Processor”, has just been connected to ESME, the microsharing and collaboration platform. I believe the combination is a big step forward for Sig’s solution, as well as representing one of several approaches that signpost the direction of enterprise 2.0, or [...]

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Panaya – A different kind of ERP third party maintenance provider

Brian Sommer — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:05:34 -0700

ERP update costs got your firm stuck on old releases? Panaya may have cloud-based way to help your firm stay current in a less costly and less risky manner.

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More thoughts on 12Sprints.com

Dennis Moore — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:42:00 -0700

This post is a follow up to my initial review of 12Sprints.com, the innovative new collaboration tool from SAP. That review was based on about a half day of using 12Sprints.com with a colleague or two, but without any real business need driving my use...

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Oracle’s Primavera Product Update

Brian Sommer — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:42:05 -0700

It's been one year after the Oracle acquisition of Primavera. Has anything changed? What will Oracle do next with this product line? Should PPM competitors care or worry?

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Strategy: 5 Lessons Learned From A Decade Of Naught

R "Ray" Wang — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:59:35 -0700

Image via Wikipedia I’ve had considerable time to catch up on reading this holiday season. Traditionally, it’s a time for predictions, resolutions, and reflections. As we close out the last decade, I couldn’t help but dwell on economist Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed from December 27th titled “The Big Zero”. He brings up good points that it’s been [...]

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Tuesday’s Tip: 10 Cloud and SaaS Apps Strategies For 2010

R "Ray" Wang — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:34:42 -0700

Keep In Mind Basic Rules Still Apply Regardless Of Deployment Option The proliferation of SaaS solutions provides organizations with a myriad of sorely needed point and disruptive solutions. Good news – business users can rapidly procure and deploy, while innovating with minimal budget and IT team constraints. Bad news – users must depend more on their [...]

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Chicken Around the World

Tom Foydel — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:25:09 -0700

Every once in a while I write a post that’s crazier than most. These normally happen late at night when my internal defenses have given way to a glass of wine. This post is along those lines. The basic question that I’ll try to answer is “Will the Cloud and SaaS save the current roster of Enterprise [...]

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ERP Rigidity – What Agresso Found Out – Key Factors

Brian Sommer — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:24:51 -0700

When you absolutely must change or upgrade your ERP solution, do you know what sort of risk you put your company in? Why are these systems so hard to change?

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Dear Santa : The CXO ERP Xmas Letter

Brian Sommer — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:54:53 -0700

Can Santa help ERP users this holiday season? I doubt it. But, if you believe in Santa, maybe this letter needs to come from your firm.

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It’s so strange here…

Sig Rinde — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:45:44 -0700

As a kid I was a huge fan of a Norwegian poet named Sigbjørn Obstfelder, a contemporary and friend of Edvard Munch (I’m a big fan of him as well). Now, many years later, when watching and participating in the Enterprise Software discussions I am reminded all the time about this one – “Jeg ser”: I look… I [...]

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Why is SAP Prioritizing E-Sourcing in its Sourcing Portfolio? (Part 1)

Jason Busch — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:33:00 -0700

At SAP's Influencer Summit last week, one thing became quite clear rather quickly in discussions with key SAP team members as well as during the specific analyst and customer briefing on its latest products. And that's the fact that SAP is p...

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Not Your Omi’s SAP

Josh Greenbaum — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:00:14 -0700

John Schwarz, SAP board member, former head of Business Objects, and one of the leaders of a flying wedge of change that is permeating SAP, knows what he’s talking about when he characterizes the “new” SAP that is emerging from year one of the Léo Apotheker era. So when he offered that the SAP he was [...]

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SAP Influencer Summit, Dispatch 5: The SAP Procurement Portfolio (Part 2)

Jason Busch — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:48:00 -0700

Last week I had the chance to get an update from SAP on the latest positioning and solution elements of its overall procurement portfolio. In this post, I'll continue to share what I learned, focusing on providing an update on the provider's...

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