Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Business, HCM, SAP
Even with all the news about a slowdown in the US economy and the dark outlook on jobs, it seems that for the most part it is still difficult to find good people. The war for talent is still raging. These SAP sponsored reports by the Economist give an interesting overview of the supply of […]
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Leadership, SAP, Technology
I sent the “10 signs that you aren’t cut out to be a CIO” post to some of my CIO friends and I received the following interesting feedback: A seasoned Fortune 100 CIO said:
I read the top ten list but haven’t read the whole article. I think the points are valid but thought the way […]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under SAP, Saas, Technology
SAP has its own TV channel and you can find numerous interesting videos on the SAP-TV website. I found this video describing SAP Business ByDesign. SAP released this video before the recent announcement that they are delaying the launch of Business ByDesign. Also see SAP’s SAPPHIRE 2008 announcement that it will bring SaaS to large companies.
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Carel
Today I stumbled upon Sylvia Chaudoir’s SAP HCM Expertise website. Sylvia is an ex-SAP HCM Consulting manager and she’s always been very willing to assist others. She’s presenting at the HR2008 conference in Orlando and you can meet her at “Meet the experts”. You can click on the Publications link to get a number […]
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, SAP, South Africa, Venture Capital
I’ve mentioned Hasso Plattner a number of times in my blog. He is the colorful co-founder and former CEO of SAP AG. He is also the father of SAP’s client-server 3-tiered product called R/3.
This week Hasso Plattner launch HP Ventures Africa (Hasso Plattner — not to be confused with Hewlett Packard) in Cape Town, South […]
Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Carel
I’ve had numerous requests from business partners for a comprehensive list of SAP HCM consulting companies in the USA. My aim in this post is to give you a comprehensive list — let me know if I missed one.
Pure-play SAP HCM companies:
EPI-USE: EPI-USE America, based in Atlanta, GA, is my former employer and one of […]
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Entrepreneurship, SAP, Technology
I think that the exponential increase of on-demand video (youtube.com, Yahoo! video) will allow entrepreneurs to learn on-the-fly from some incredible sources. The problem with Youtube is that it takes time to find quality videos, like this Sellingpower interview of SAP Americas CEO, Bill McDermont.The Stanford’s Educations Corner is an entrepreneur’s best friend. It contains […]
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, SAP, Saas, Technology
My plan was to report in depth on SAP’s Business ByDesign product, however I decided to rather point you to a number of well crafted blogs summarizing the launch.
My friend Tom Otter provides an insider’s view.
Bob Warfield writes a great blogs on all things SaaS, and Web 2.0. His BbD summary is very good.
Jeff Nolan […]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, SAP, Saas, Technology
SAP officially launched A1S today and it’s called: SAP Business ByDesign. It will cost $149 per user per month. A quick initial review of SAP BBD looks a lot like current self service scenarios and webdynpro transactions. I will do a more detailed review soon.
Posted on September 5th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under HCM, SAP, Technology
Bill Kutik’s recent HRMS Happenings article is a very good overview of what’s coming from the prominent HCM vendors. The following highlights caught my attention:
Oracle will continue to develop Peoplesoft, Oracle HCM and Fusion HCM as separate product lines.
Workday is busy developing a payroll engine.
All the vendors have interesting Web 2.0 plans.
SAP is partnering with […]
