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Betting more BOBJ customers on business analytics

I must admit, I was left a little confused by SAP's Tuesday announcement on business analytics. Why would SAP hold a big press conference, call in the big...

Bringing SAP’s customer network down to earth

If you've seen the movie "Up in the Air," you'll remember that when George's Clooney's character hits the 10 million mile mark, he gets his name on a plane, a sit down with American Airlines' chief pilot and a shiny silver card with a phone number on the back that provides him with a personal line...

SAP ROI chief amongst customers’ concerns

This past week, I had the opportunity to attend a New England Chapter meeting of ASUG. At EMC offices in Franklin, Mass., about 50 SAP professionals gathered to network and hear about a few highlighted topics - the SAP variant configurator, Enterprise Asset Management and data quality. I love...

SAP and CA partnership boosts SAP’s position in GRC market

Excel is the biggest competitor in the Enterprise GRC space, Gartner's French Caldwell said to me on a call about SAP's new IT GRC partnership with CA. That sentiment jived with a survey we recently conducted on SAP priorities on SearchSAP.com. Most of our readers said they weren't using

Can SAP innovate quickly and quietly?

SAP CTO Vishal Sikka is big on the mantra “innovation without disruption.”

But in a recent research note,...

Can Boies really work his magic on third-party support?

By hiring David Boies of Microsoft and Bush vs. Gore fame, Oracle's at the very least making a strong threat to litigate the TomorrowNow case. When

SUGEN to tackle BusinessObjects product roadmaps

Today, SUGEN announced that it'll work with BusinessObjects customers -- both SAP and non-SAP shops - to give them a stronger voice with SAP on product roadmaps. SUGEN is made up of...

Marin County sues Deloitte: Is it really SAP’s problem?

Over the past couple of weeks, a pretty major lawsuit involving a so-called failed SAP implementation has been unfolding. Marin County California is suing Deloitte...

Sapphire 2010: Innovation on the iPad

Anyone who attended Sapphire this year saw the iPad everywhere. From Hasso Plattner's keynote to the booths of vendors on the show floor, everyone wanted to demo their products on Apple's newest gadget. So I wasn't surprised to see a gentleman who looked to be in his late 20's in the row over...

What’s SAP building with Vblocks?

Overheard at EMC World this week -- CEO Joe Tucci mentioned they'll make some kind of Vblock/SAP announcement at Sapphire next week. Sources say the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (EMC, VMware and Cisco) will make an announcement about running SAP on its