The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

At the SAP Influencer Summit on Tuesday, the company touted its mobile milestones and achievements for 2011, while promising major upgrades and improvements to its mobile software. Below are a bunch of slides from the keynote presentation by Sybase Executive Vice-President and head of SAP Mobile Applications, Dr. Raj Nathan, along with some of his quotes, my commentary, and reaction from the 200 or so analysts and journalists tweeting from the event (#SAPSummit) in Boston. (more…)

SuccessFactors will no doubt be the star of tomorrow’s SAP Influencer Summit. The future is always more fun to talk about. But if you want to hear about victories in the last 12 months, may I suggest that enterprise mobility is your topic? (more…)

Listening to customers, partners and SAP colleagues, the spark of interest for mobility that was ignited in Orlando indeed turned into a fire of excitement at Madrid!

The Mobility campus, with its many live demos, was full of activity at all hours, the Twitter channels were brimming with tweets and the mobility sessions were heavily visited. (more…)

The environment, health and safety (EHS) issues that certain industries (i.e. oil and gas, chemical) must adhere to are wide-reaching and complex.  So imagine the potential efficiencies that could be gleaned for safety managers if they had the ability to react to an environment or industrial issues in real-time, from a mobile device. Guess what? Atos, a global SAP partner and customer has devised a very impressive mobile app prototype that does just that, earning them a first place mobility showcase award at SAPPHIRE NOW from Madrid. (more…)

Short post with some other snippets of news from me this afternoon – the main reason being that I am very “mobile” today, running between discussions with customers (e.g. at SUGEN) and partners (e.g. Wipro on Manufacturing). Continue to follow me on Twitter for more content (@clesucr) or search the hashtags #MOBILITY and #SAPPHIRENOW to see all the traffic and links to more content. (more…)

It was only five months ago that a team of people from Berlin’s Charité hospital met with a development group from SAP but quickly Charité saw an opportunity to improve patient care through mobile technology. In short order, the hospital became a pilot customer for the SAP Electronic Medical Record mobile app. Speaking at a panel discussion on The Mobilized Enterprise at SAPPHIRE NOW from Madrid, Martin Peuker, Charité’s CIO talked about the hospital’s vision of “personalized medicine” – a vision of enhancing the quality of patient treatment while making the clinical process more efficient. (more…)

MADRID — SAP and Sybase today unveiled the next wave of mobile apps designed for a wide range of industries and mobile workers, from executives to knowledge and task workers. With this release, SAP continues to expand the industry’s most comprehensive mobile portfolio, including platform, apps and security. Read the press release.

SAP today unveiled eight new mobile apps and new versions of three mobile apps built on Sybase Unwired Platform that cover a variety of application classes, from mission-critical process driven apps to consumer facing apps, including: (more…)

At SAP TechEd today, I sat in a roundtable with Gerald Faust, SAP’s head of the Banking Industry Business Unit, who updated journalists from all over Latin America on latest trends and developments in the banking sector. What I didn’t know (most of you, however, probably do) is that banks are the top spenders when it comes to IT. Excluding hardware, banks worldwide spend approximately 140 billion EUR each year on their IT, mostly on application software, in-house development, and system integrators. And a big chunk of this is SAP-related. (more…)

Mobility is the new reality in the business world. Equipped with all types of mobile devices, mobile workers are enabling a new wave of disruptive innovation that is transforming the companies they buy from and work for. “Mobile First” is not an option, it’s a new imperative for all companies – also for SAP itself. And mobile applications are changing the way business users interact with SAP systems – design and usability are core aspects to mobility. (more…)