The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Today at SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP announced the delivery of a new SAP Sales and Operations Planning application. What does this mean for today’s complex, global supply networks? (more…)

What does collaboration look like at your company? What happens, for example, when your team needs to pull together a PowerPoint presentation? Does the process look like a series of emails with 2 MB files flying back and forth? Oliver Fielitz, key account manager at All for One Midmarket AG, calls this form of collaboration “e-mail ping pong” and set out to create a better approach to collaboration using SAP StreamWork. (more…)

Other teams might debate this, but in an industry analyst briefing today at SAPPHIRE NOW, Jack Miller, general manager and global vice president for SAP StreamWork, enthusiastically called SAP StreamWork the “funnest” team inside SAP. Why? It’s working on creating software for the social enterprise, an evolution of the way we work that is “truly new,” according to Miller. (more…)

Are you one of the lucky people attending SAPPHIRE NOW in the beautiful city of Madrid? If so, give your inbox the week off by using SAP StreamWork to coordinate your team’s activities at the show. Here are five ways you can use the cloud-based decision-making application to make your SAPPHIRE NOW experience seamless and productive: (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…)

Heads nodded at a SAPPHIRE NOW breakfast Tuesday morning as SAP executive Jack Miller said SAP StreamWork is closing the gap between the kinds of applications we use in our personal lives and in our business lives.

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This quote was by Mark Twain, American author and humorist, after hearing that his obituary had been published in the New York Journal. I’ve wanted to use this title as a blogpost for a while, but I was told it was too harsh and too ‘American-centric.’ Sorry to those I will offend, but I thought it summed up the Line of Business (LOB) On-Demand session at our 7^th annual SAP Influencer Summit 2010, held in Santa Clara on Dec. 7-8 2010, really well. And I don’t think I’m alone. (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…)

In our approach to on-demand solutions, we are rewriting the  ‘rules of engagement’ between solution provider and customer – and moving away from being a simple supplier of technology, to maintaining a very close, intimate relationship all through the process. We have multiple initiatives in place to make sure both parties work shoulder to shoulder, from creating shared visions, to designing solutions, all the way through consumption. (more…)

Yesterday at SAP Influencer Summit 2010, SAP Executive Board Member Vishal Sikka outlined the company’s vision to “simplify, innovate and evolve” customers’ business systems and that message would continue to resonate throughout the remainder of the day’s sessions, which explored how these themes applied to organizations’ on-premise, on-demand and on-device solutions. (more…)