Punching Soup - Tag: sap

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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Salesforce.com Is Into SAP – Ask FinancialForce

Paul Greenberg — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:25:37 -0700

I ran across this rather interesting press release this morning from TMCNet saying: “FinancialForce.com Announces Out-of-the-Box SAP Integration for Sharing Financial Data.” All I have to say in this case is kudos to a. salesforce.com b. and especially FinancialForce.com. This is not an insignificant integration when it comes to the evolution of salesforce.com in particular. Thus, a [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day 2010

Craig Cmehil — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:31:27 -0700

I’ve always thought it’s best to celebrate those you admire whenever the chance arises however on occasion, such as today when the world has a sharp eye on the topic it’s quite often good to celebrate specific people in connection and the same context. Today, March 24, 2010 is Ada Lovelace day, and everyone is [...]

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Path to Recognition

Craig Cmehil — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:53:31 -0700

The other week Jon Reed from JonERP asked me to join him for his next episode of the ERP Lounge which I was both honored and flattered to do so. The episode which is now online and you can find here he also posted a piece up on the SAP Community Network that you might [...]

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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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User Group Event: SAP Australian User Group (SAUG) Summit 2010

R "Ray" Wang — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:53:43 -0700

Title: SAUG Summit 2010 Location: Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour, Sydney Link out: Click here Start Date: 2010-08-03 End Date: 2010-08-05 Description: Learn: Collaborate: Innovate The SAUG Summit is the largest SAP event in the Asia-Pacific region and 2010 promises to be no different. This gathering for SAP professionals attracts a wide range of attendees from all levels within [...]

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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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Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2009 SII Top 35 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™

R "Ray" Wang — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:27:09 -0700

2009 Results In Major Revenue Declines For On Premise And Officially The Year Of SaaS A review of last year’s financial performance should erase any doubts about the viability of SaaS as a deployment option and a business model. Traditional on-premise business apps vendors took the brunt of the beating earlier in the year but [...]

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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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Oracle’s On Demand Procurement Launch

Jason Busch — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:46:00 -0700

Earlier today, Oracle announced the formal launch of its On Demand suite of procurement products. These solutions, which Oracle labels as Oracle Procurement On Demand should be no surprise to Spend Matters readers (check our recent coverage here and...

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Vendors Who Get The Social Thing – Oh, And I’ve Ordered An iPad

Paul Greenberg — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:37:17 -0700

Image credit: Inside Social I ordered an iPad last Friday right after Apple finished updating their site so that I could. Just to set the record straight, I’m not a fanboy though I have 2 iMacs, an iPhone and a Macbook Pro 13″ with a solid state drive. But, then again, I’m writing this post on [...]

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More Fun with Co-CEOs: The Economist Responds (And Still Doesn’t Dissuade Me)

Josh Greenbaum — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:31:33 -0700

The author of the column in the Economist that I cited in my last post has written a kind response, defending his position against my slings and arrows. On one account he is firmly correct: the article he cited is findable, especially after the correct name of the business journal was published on the Economist’s [...]

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Redux: Will Google Enter the Business Applications Market?

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:27:26 -0700

If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then I respect that. And it’s all a big IF. So no, I am simply dusting off an old post I wrote [...]

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Four pillars of the transition to SaaS

Phil Wainewright — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:51:18 -0700

One of the most interesting phenomena to arise when you bring as-a-service providers together is the instant sense of camaraderie and a shared outlook. Barriers come down and people start to discuss their challenges and experiences, relieved to discover that others are encountering similar questions. It’s especially noticeable at gatherings in Europe, where opportunities to [...]

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Economist Gets It Wrong: Dual-CEOs Can Work Well

Josh Greenbaum — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:13:25 -0700

Sometimes the Economist gets is right, sometimes it gets it wrong. Last week one of the last of the authoritative business magazines put its foot in its mouth with a lightweight and poorly considered column about the value of co-CEOs, with a specific reference to SAP’s recent appointment of Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe [...]

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SAP – The Message Back on Target

Paul Greenberg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:00:11 -0700

(Just a brief note. I’m writing this with a TERRIBLE cold and I don’t feel particularly sharp. In fact I feel about as sharp as a bar of soap – proof positive is this awful analogy). I’m not a Kremlin watcher when it comes to most large companies, though I do admit to an unhealthy curiosity [...]

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Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant: We Report, You Read and We All Decide

Jason Busch — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:06:00 -0700

I usually have a more op/ed than reporting take on analyzing the news, but I thought I'd use this post to highlight some of the findings of Gartner's latest Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant, authored by Debbie Wilson, to kick off the inevitable comm...

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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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Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q4 CY 2009 SaaS Vendors Continue To Trump On Premise Vendors In YoY Growth

R "Ray" Wang — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:00:09 -0700

The Year Of SaaS Shows… And Yes, In This Economy. The recession continued to take its toll on software sales with a slight impact to the SaaS vendors. Growth rates have come down from the high 30’s to the low 20’s. But with “flat” the new growth metric in this down economy, results remain impressive. Traditional [...]

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Monday’s Musings: Why Users Must Preserve Their Third Party Maintenance Rights

R "Ray" Wang — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:06:09 -0700

Apps Users Seek Third Party Maintenance For Cost, Value, and Service Updated surveys from inquiries, client conversations, and user group meetings show a 113.8% increase in interest in third party maintenance (3PM) services from Q3 2009 to Q1 2010 (see Figure 1). Key factors stem from (see Figure 2.): Continuing cost pressures. Budgets continue to be at [...]

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Oracle Plays with the Fire that Burned SAP

Josh Greenbaum — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:03:12 -0700

There’s nothing sweeter for a blogger than irony, and the news that Oracle shut down a popular — and perhaps a little too honest — support blog run by an internal Oracle employee provides buckets of blog-worthy irony. Irony is all in the timing, and Oracle couldn’t have picked a worse moment to exercise some [...]

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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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Putting Collaboration in Context

Phil Wainewright — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:05:17 -0700

It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks in the world of collaboration software, with major initiatives from two leading vendors at opposite ends of the market spectrum. At the heavyweight end of the enterprise market, SAP released into beta its 12sprints collaborative decision-making tool. From the high-volume end of the individual consumer market, Google unveiled [...]

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Will SAP be acquired?

Dennis Moore — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:26:02 -0700

Will SAP be acquired? Reader poll says yes by a 2 to 1 margin, but a thoughtful analysis casts doubt on this notion.

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This is a very opportune time to be investing in sustainability management software!

Tom Raftery — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:54:41 -0700

I wrote about SAP’s launch of their Sustainability Performance Management software recently. This is a space which is of massively growing importance given the increasing regulations around greenhouse gas emissions, for example. I was heartened then to hear in a recent discussion with SAS that their Sustainability Management software was launched in April 2008! For background, [...]

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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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Leo’s Sustainable Legacy: thoughts on SAP’s CEO changes.

James Governor — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:24:58 -0700

Sunday night about 7pm I checked my phone and the chatter was already in full effect – SAP CEO Leo Apotheker had agreed to leave the company. The hardest working man in the analyst business, Ray Wang, already had first take post online a couple of hours later. Ray is awesome, but I am sure [...]

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The New SAP: Restarting the Post-Kagermann Era

Josh Greenbaum — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:56:51 -0700

In one of life’s little ironies, I was in the airport last Sunday on my way to Europe– and a series of meetings in Walldorf – when I got a call from SAP. The rest you probably know: the SAP board decided not to renew the contract of Léo Apotheker – who succeeded Henning Kagermann [...]

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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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SAP changes leaders: Time for innovation

Michael Krigsman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:39 -0700

Bloggers and Twitters alike are buzzing today with news that enterprise giant, SAP, announced a leadership change. IT's time for customer-friendly SAP legislation and product innovation.

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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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SAP bets on software for sustainability (Q&A)

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:59:00 -0700

Environmental software isn't just for complying with laws. SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf says forward-looking companies are managing natural resources to save money and lower risk.

SAP’s 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon

Dion Hinchcliffe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:23:47 -0700

I spent some time this morning working with SAP's new 12Sprints collaboration service, which was announced earlier this week. Available free in open beta immediately, it's a cloud-based service that's a cross between Basecamp and Google Wave and is ostensibly designed for team collaboration. Not incidentally, 12Sprints is also clearly a social application and it includes viral invitation, extensive commenting and discussion capabilities, and interesting new twists on measuring community opinion such as real time consensus tracking. Here's my analysis and breakdown.

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Human Interactions and the Rise of Social Characteristics in Software

Paul Greenberg — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:22:51 -0700

Those of you who have read the 4th edition of CRM at the Speed of Light know that I’ve taken Thomas Vander Wal’s brilliant “Social Stack” concept, and added “context” as a characteristic to it. I’m increasingly convinced that the idea of ”social characteristics” is somethingthat has to be considered when it comes to the [...]

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News Analysis: IBM Acquires MDM Leader Initiate Systems For Public Sector and Healthcare Prowess

R "Ray" Wang — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:57:26 -0700

IBM Adds A Leading Customer Data Integration/MDM Pioneer To Its Master Information Management Arsenal With arguably 10 master information management acquisitions since 2003, IBM continues to push towards its goal of adaptive master data management (MDM) (see Figure 1). The recent acquisition of Initiate Systems comes after the heals of Oracle’s purchase of SilverCreek Systems in [...]

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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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News Analysis: Siperian Acquisition Vaults Informatica Into An MDM Leadership Position

R "Ray" Wang — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:51:29 -0700

Informatica Enters The Battle For Master Data Management Dominance As with any best of breed market, only a few will survive and even fewer will succeed. Despite a leading offering, Siperian’s faced a rocky financial situation over the past 12 months. Many suitors pursued Siperian but in the end Informatica’s $130M acquisition of Siperian took one [...]

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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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SAP sales beat expectations

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:50:00 -0700

Full-year sales and earnings drop but revenue manages to beat expectations, as higher software sales are forecast for 2010.

Turning a new page…

Craig Cmehil — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:04 -0700

The last time I wrote a blog post like this was way back on July 20, 2005, (blog link) which went as follows… So by now I’m sure a few have either heard or read Mark’s little weblog by now and for all of you that replied I just want to say THANK YOU your well wishes have helped [...]

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2010 the year of SME @ SAP

Prashanth Rai — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:10:59 -0700

2010 is going to be an important year for SAP in the SME space. SAP is working hard on putting the different pieces of the puzzle together to make it successful in the very competed /discussed about SME space. Key...

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