Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, SAP, South Africa, Technology
Thanks to the Collaboration@Rural project, SAP enables small grocers in rural South Africa to sell the goods, their customers actually need – through a mobile delivery system.
Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by Carel
I’m on my way to Amsterdam to attend HR2008. This will be the first time this Wispubs conference will be held in Europe. ROC is the premier sponsor and our chairman, Les Hayman, will be one of the keynote speakers. If you are attending come by our booth and to say hi. Leave a comment [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Business, HCM, SAP
If you are in the SAP world then this is big news. Infosys announced on August 25, 2008 that it plans to acquire Axon for US$753MM in cash. A couple of years ago Axon acquired US based PremierHR. A significant inducement fee should prevent Axon from taking a competitive bid. Here is a good analysis [...]
Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Carel
Successfactors (SFSF) recently announced integration into Google Apps (GOOG). I think this is a very important announcement. See what Phil Wainewright has to say about this. Bringing the Web, especially Web 2.0 into the enterprise. SAP, take note. Here is what Successfactors had to say about the integration. The integration of SuccessFactors’ Performance and Talent [...]
Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, HCM, SAP, South Africa
Update: January 1, 2009 – I’m not with ROC anymore. First off, I apologize for the lengthy silence. I’ve been busy! As of July 1, I’m the CEO of ROC Americas, Inc. and a board member of ROC Global. ROC’s vision is to be THE Global SAP HCM specialist, and after just 7 weeks with [...]
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 of [...]
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, [...]
