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Blogs on SAP’s Business ByDesign

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 […]

SAP’s A1S launced today and is called: SAP Business ByDesign

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.

SAP, Oracle and Workday HCM product strategy updates

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 […]

SAP’s on demand/SaaS ERP solution, codenamed A1S

Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under SAP, Saas, Technology

My aim with this post is to summarize the information currently available on A1S. A1S has been in the works for at least 3 years and is SAP’s on demand or SaaS (Software as a service) ERP solution. According to ZDNet A1S is targeted to launch in 2008 and is part of SAP’s strategy to […]

Integration with SAP

Posted on July 6th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under SAP, Technology

Well, even with NetWeaver and XI it seems that it is still not easy to integrate 3rd party systems with SAP. I did some research and found the following interesting products. The first one that seems very interesting (based on their website, I’m signed up for a demo next week) is the an Integration Appliance […]

Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (ESOA) for the rest of us

Posted on July 4th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under Business, SAP

Venderprisey linked to an excellent presentation on ESOA. I post it here for your convenience. It’s also an example of an excellent presentation.
Do you agree?

Shai Agassi - Post-SAP

Posted on April 29th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under Blogging, Green Energy, Leadership, SAP

Shai Agassi recently left SAP AG to pursue other interests including alternative energy. Here is the press release. He is still a technology consultant to SAP with an office in Palo Alto.
His post-SAP blog is called the Long Tailpipe. You can also find a great podcast here that he recently delivered at Stanford.
What is your […]

SAPPHIRE 2007 in Atlanta

Posted on April 3rd, 2007 by Carel

Filed under SAP

SAP is definitely faced with some interesting challenges at the moment. The Oracle lawsuit and now with Shai Agassi leaving. I live in Atlanta and look forward to attending SAPPHIRE. I’m sure it’s going to be an interesting event. It is now a joint event with ASUG and it is from April 22-25, 2007 at […]

SAP HR2007 in Vegas - Update

Posted on March 20th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under HCM, SAP

I had a very productive time in Vegas attending the SAP HR, FI and GRC conference from March 11-13. I met a number of business associates and former colleagues. This is a great conference to learn more about the SAP product set, as well as to network with business partners and customers. The Venetian Hotel […]

SAP HR2007: March 12-14, 2007

Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under HCM, SAP

SAPInsider will be hosting this year’s SAP HR conference in Las Vegas from March 12-14. This year it will be combined with the SAP Financials 2007 and SAP Governance, Risk, Compliance 2007 conferences.
I will be attending to represent one of my clients and hope to see you there. Let me know and we can catch […]


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