Amongst some of my industry colleagues, SAP’s recent acquisition of hybris caused a tsunami of emotions, everything from “Oh my God! SAP just killed hybris” through to “Oh my God! SAP is now has a Digital offering, surely...
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Beware the mistakes of the past with cloud based ERP – Gain the benefit without the pain.
By Gary James
1CommentHaving worked in the SAP market for the last 20 or so years, my career has grown up with the ERP market. With SAP ERP being the leading ERP solution in the market I’ve experienced the ups and downs of how the ERP phenomenon as a whole has...
Read moreSocial Media Monitoring – Now what? Hearing the tune through the noise.
By Gary James
Yesterday I attended a session with Netbase the Social Media monitoring solution that partners with SAP as part of their CRM 360 initiative. This is a very powerful piece of software that provides the ability to analyse the wealth of social media...
Read moreBalancing “Inside-Out” and “Outside-In” – Key points for a CIO in a SAP HANA enabled world
By Gary James
The terms “Inside-Out” and “Outside-In” are used in an IT context to explain the dynamic for acquisition and delivery of software solutions within a business. The drive of “Inside-Out” is seen as being IT focussed,...
Read moreSAP Business Suite and the consumer – It’s finally time to get to know each other better!
By Gary James
Having worked with SAP for the last 20 years I’ve watched with interest how the product has developed and having been an SD consultant in the past I’ve particularly been interested in the way the product has progressed in its interaction with the...
Read moreHANA Lifecycle Services - Using an Outcome based approach to drive IT Target Operating Model change
By Gary James
Right so HANA is faster and can process more data but......How do you get the value? Where do I start? How do I take it to the next level? How do you make it stick? Where do I host it? Who has the new skills? Can I reuse my old skills? How will...
Read moreBigger Data, Faster Reporting – What next? The Applification of SAP HANA
By Gary James
It’s widely acknowledged that HANA is “disruptive technology”. It’s guaranteed that SAP’s Business Intelligence capabilities, underpinned by HANA, will enable the processing and analysis of bigger data-sets, faster. The announcement of...
Read more#SAPonHANA – Light bulb moment or a bit of a grower?
I’ve now had the weekend and a few days to think about the Press Conference that SAP ran to announce that Business Suite would now be available on HANA. The press conference itself was interesting with a lot of detail provided about future plans...
Read moreIs Digital Transformation 1.0 just e-Business 2.0?
By Gary James
Digital Transformation is seen by many as the new frontier for IT, never seen before and therefore with new challenges that have never been addressed before. Digital “companies” appear that extol the virtues of how the world has now changed....
Read moreThe Beauty of SAP now in the hand of the Beholder
By Gary James
During SAP’s Sapphire events a major part of the message was around Usability. Traditionally, seen as functionally rich but unexciting, SAP and Usability are words that you would not normally put in the same sentence. But with the upcoming release...
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