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 [...]
Also tagged erp, mashups, 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 [...]
Also tagged prasad akella, 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 [...]
Also tagged jeff stiles, 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, [...]
Also tagged glenn wada, smeTweetJonathan 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 [...]
Also tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, doug merritt, jonathan becher, marge breya, sanjay poonenTweet“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.
Also tagged bobjsummit08TweetKeeping 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, [...]
Also tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, doug merrittTweetFranz 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 [...]
Also tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, cant talk about it, muzzled, ndaTweetMoving 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 [...]
Also tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, sanjay poonenTweetMarge 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 [...]
Also tagged apotex, bobjsummit08, business objects, john mayer, marge breya, 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. [...]
Also tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, dan millar, deloitte, glenn gutwillig, ibm accenture, lee dittmar, narina sippyTweetI’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 [...]
Also tagged bobjsummit08, business objects, doug merritt, jonathan becher, robert kaplanTweetI’ve been sticking close to home for the summer, but my fall lineup is about to begin. So far, I’m definitely attending the following: Business Objects Influencer Summit and SAP SME Day, August 12-13, Boston. This is an analyst/press event, not a public conference, but I’ll be blogging from there. International Conference on BPM, September [...]
Also tagged appian, business rules forum, Gartner, OMGTweetI’m picking and choosing my sessions carefully, in part because I have some prearranged meetings specifically about BPM. Here with all my Enterprise Irregulars blogging compatriots (many of whom I’m meeting in person for the first time), we all were given a personalized schedule of meetings tuned to our particular area of interest — very [...]
Also tagged wolfgang hilpertTweetMy first time at SAPPHIRE, and I have one initial impression: this conference is huge. Most of you probably already knew that, but for me, 1,500 people at a conference is big, and this one is 10 times that size. The press room is the size of a regular conference’s general session ballroom. I just [...]
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