TweetI’ve just finished reading *Personality Not Included by social marketing guru Rohit Bhargava. I don’t know a lot about marketing, but I know what works and doesn’t work when companies try it on me, and I’m increasingly interested in the crossover between social media and marketing. Bhargava examines the concept of personality as it applies [...]
TweetThese are my links for August 18th: Business Process Transformations Revisited | ARIS BPM Blog – Issues in transformation from business models (e.g. BPMN) to executable languages, including a link to the Model-Driven Engineering for BPM workshop that they're giving at the BPM conference in Milan next month. The Perfect Process Project eBook – Another [...]
TweetUp next is a deep dive on Business ByDesign, the SaaS offering for SMEs. The deep dives so far have been kind of shallow, and mostly centered on sales, marketing, pricing and packaging of the products rather than much to do with functionality. We’re also running 45 minutes late, and seem to be getting later [...]
Tagged erp, mashups, SAP, smeTweetI missed the late-morning sessions, but I’m back here for Prasad Akella, Senior Director of SAP Business All-in-One Solution Marketing. We heard about some of the new integrations with All-in-One: just announced last week, the CRM 2007 product is now tightly integrated with the All-in-One functionality, providing marketing, sales and service components. Also, the Business [...]
Tagged prasad akella, SAP, smeTweetJeff Stiles is back to give us an update on the SME product portfolio, and there’s an interesting tie-in to yesterday’s message at the Business Objects day: the portfolio includes both business management and business intelligence, with a pretty strong emphasis on how BI adds value to SAP’s traditional business management. He went through the [...]
Tagged jeff stiles, SAP, smeTweetAfter an intro by Jeff Stiles, SVP SME Solution Marketing, Glenn Wada, GM US Strategic Growth Enterprises Group, gave us a business update on SAP’s small and medium enterprise (SME) efforts. 75% of SAP customers are SME, although only about 30% of software sales (>1B Euro). SAP defines SME is anything under $1B in revenue, [...]
Tagged glenn wada, SAP, smeTweetThese are my links for August 12th: Procrastination: Beat procrastination with the 10 minute rule – I really have to try this…as soon as I find some time. Creating mashups on the Google App Engine using Eclipse, Part 1: Creating the application – Via Stephen O'Grady. ASUG Webcast: Bringing New Thinking to Business Process Design [...]
TweetJonathan Becher hosted a wrap-up Q&A with Doug Merritt, Marge Breya and Sanjay Poonen. I’ve consolidated the responses rather than attributing them to the individuals: On reasons for Business Objects’ continued growth: major contributors include having the SAP sales force also selling Business Objects products, and expansion of the product suite to include GRC and [...]
Tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, doug merritt, jonathan becher, marge breya, sanjay poonen, SAPTweet“Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do.” Although Dennis disagrees with my recollection of the sentence structure. Update: Dennis now agrees with me, and expands on the context.
Tagged bobjsummit08, SAPTweetKeeping with SAP’s excellent blogger relations, a few of us bloggers had a chance for a quick chat with Doug Merritt about acquisitions in the space, the “walking dead” of BI vendors, popular BI applications, SaaS BI, go-to-market strategies, the transition to being part of SAP, new product segments, selling into big accounts versus mid-market, [...]
Tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, doug merritt, SAPTweetFranz Aman, VP of Product Marketing, gave us a product roadmap of the BI platform within Business Objects and SAP. Unfortunately, he declared the session as being under NDA, even though a lot of what he talked about had nothing to do with future product directions, so I can’t share it with you. The true [...]
Tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, cant talk about it, muzzled, nda, SAPTweetMoving from business intelligence to the applications that rely on business intelligence, we heard from Sanjay Poonen, SVP and GM of Performance Optimization Applications. He started off with the cycle that we saw earlier in the day, with insight being linked to execution and process optimization, and focused on the governance, risk and compliance aspects [...]
Tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, sanjay poonen, SAPTweetMarge Breya, EVP and BPM of the Business Intelligence Platform group, gave us a whirlwind briefing on the product portfolio, which is made up of Business Objects assets, some SAP assets, and new products being built jointly: Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC), where they hold the overall #1 position worldwide with a 21% market share Enterprise [...]
Tagged apotex, bobjsummit08, business objects, john mayer, marge breya, SAP, xcelsiusTweetNarina Sippy, SVP and GM of GRC at Business Objects, hosted a panel of three major partners: Lee Dittmar of Deloitte, Glenn Gutwillig of Accenture, and Dan Miller of IBM GS. Inevitably, this started with the “mine’s bigger than yours” comparisons, because apparently when it comes to Business Objects professional services practices, size does matter. [...]
Tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, dan millar, deloitte, glenn gutwillig, ibm accenture, lee dittmar, narina sippy, SAPTweetI’m here in rainy Boston at the Business Objects Influencer Summit, which was kicked off with Jonathan Becher, SVP of Marketing for Business Objects. It’s a very process-oriented message (which explains why I’m here): using business intelligence to drive process efficiency, improve insight to close the gap between strategy and execution, and add flexibility to [...]
Tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, doug merritt, jonathan becher, robert kaplan, SAPTweetThese are my links for August 10th: Twitter Brand Index « Fluent Simplicity – List of companies that Twitter, although not many that I would choose to follow. Via Bill Ives, FASTforward blog.
TweetThese are my links for August 8th: SAP Network Blogs – Interested in becoming a beta site for SAP's NetWeaver BPM and BRM? If you're an SAP customer and want to see how their BPM offering is going to work for you, here's a chance for a hands-on sneak peek.
TweetThese are my links for August 8th: Social Networks and BPM – Jean-Jacques Dubray responding to Mark Masterson's post on BPM and social networks. Some valid points if you can get past the insulting language. QUT | ePrints Archive – Patterns-based Evaluation of Open Source BPM Systems: The Cases of jBPM, OpenWFE, and Enhydra Shark [...]
TweetFor the second time recently, del.icio.us (or delicious.com, if you prefer) is not auto-posting my links as a daily posting here, posting some days and not others, so I’m trying out Postalicious. Expect some weirdness in the Links posts until I get this straightened out. Here’s the links that didn’t get posted from the past [...]
TweetOkay, I (heart) one geek in particular, who builds HD OTA antennas out of teaspoons and tape measures, and discusses λ/2 with me as if I remember anything from those long-ago electronics courses. Given the chance to review I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook, I couldn’t resist — although I am very geeky myself, I’m [...]
