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 14th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, South Africa, Technology
Mark Shuttleworth is a young, South African multi-millionaire who places himself in the category of people who are both privileged and lucky and want to do something positive with their good fortune. His Ubuntu Project, HBD enterprise, and the Shuttleworth Foundation all serve as reflections of that thought.
Born in Welkom, South Africa in 1973, Shuttleworth […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Saas, Technology
Amazon and Google are launching some amazing services these days. Amazon’s services include: Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and now Flexible Payments Service. These services may be accessed via APIs (web services) and are used by developers to introduce new products and services. Amazon charges a small fee for […]
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 […]
Posted on March 12th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Technology
I am proud and excited to announce my new Web site today. The name of my consulting company is Beyond438 and you can read all about this interesting name on the Web site.
Please review the Web site and send me a private email or leave a comment on this blog.
Posted on February 7th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under SAP, Technology
Last year I wrote about SAP’s in-memory BI technology. Refer to SAP’s SDN portal for the latest info. Today I read about a partnership between Cognos and Google regarding enterprise search and BI. Sounds very interesting and may compete with SAP and Oracle’s BI offerings. The Cognos solution is built into Google’s OneBox appliance.
Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under SAP, Technology
A friend of mine recently sent me an email regarding Coghead. According to their website Coghead is: “A simple, powerful new way to create web-based business applications that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere!” This is not a new idea, however Coghead seems to be getting a lot of attention. I want to […]
