The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

The volume of tweets put out by the audience listening to the keynote sessions at the SAP Influencer summit was so large, it was impossible to read them as the shot down the columns of  Tweetdeck.  The majority were entirely positive impressed at what they heard and saw of the three major planks of SAP product strategy - On Demand, On Device and In Memory. Being mostly hard-nosed analysts (is there any other type?) there were some tweets that suggested reservations about the need to deploy SAP HANA to provide real-time analytics and reporting in all situations – the debate about ‘real-time’ or ‘right-time.’ (more…)

How can collaboration improve sales? That’s the question Rahim Bhatia, SAP StreamWork VP, answered today during a session at SAPPHIRE NOW. Session attendees were looking for a way to help sales teams move from email and voicemail to a more structured and productive way of managing unstructured work and information. (more…)

Enterprises running SAP Business Suite software in their headquarters have shown strong interest in equipping their subsidiaries with the SAP Business ByDesign solution. Today, SAP announced that customers such as The Dow Chemical Company and Nokia have deployed SAP Business ByDesign at their subsidiaries SAFECHEM and Nokia Tej. Read the press release.

In his theater session today, King Arthur Flour’s Steve Cochran reported that using SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand has had some surprise benefits in addition to expected results.

King Arthur Flour is a 210-year-old, employee-owned company with approximately $85 million in revenues and 200 employees. The company selected SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand because it was looking for a solution that could be up and running in three to four months, from a software partner that had strong expertise in BI. (more…)

During CeBIT 2011, John Wookey, EVP of Line of Business On Demand at SAP, talks about the new SAP Sales OnDemand solution and the company’s on-demand strategy. (more…)

At CeBIT 2011 in Hanover, Germany, SAP hosts press conference with Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe; Peter Lorenz, EVP, On Demand/SME and corporate officer; and Michael Kleinemeier, regional president of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Watch the replay: SAP press conference at CeBIT 2011. (more…)

On the heels of the day’s announcement “SAP Previews Next Wave of On-Demand Solutions at CeBIT,” SAP executives discuss the company’s strategy and product plans around cloud computing, SAP Business ByDesign and a new class of on-demand applications for lines of business. Speakers include Peter Lorenz, EVP, On Demand/SME, and corporate officer; John Wookey, EVP, Large Enterprise On Demand.

• Watch the replay: SAP press roundtable “SAP’s On-Demand and Cloud Strategy” at CeBIT 2011.  (more…)

SAP devoted the second day of SAP Influencer Summit 2010 to its on-demand solutions and roadmap. Presenting to a room full of analysts, bloggers and reporters typing “#sapsummit” into every message they tweeted, Peter Lorenz, executive vice president and corporate officer, kicked off the day with SAP’s perspective on cloud computing for the enterprise. (more…)

So I was stood in the Influencers reception with good friend Jon Reed and someone from SAP Global Communications was persuading us to try desserts. I’m not a big fan of creamy things but Jon is convinced to neck a very creamy foamy thing in a small glass. He smiles, looks up, and murmurs “I’ve just been influenced”. And so it goes. (more…)

Real-time business is becoming a reality and innovations from SAP will revolutionize how companies run. Watch this SAP Influencer Summit video clip of  Vishal Sikka, SAP Executive Board member, to hear about the evolution of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and the roadmap for mobility, on demand and in memory. (more…)