It was one of those made-for-the-tabloids scandals: a tale of financial misdeeds that included a former British Prime Minister; one of Switzerland’s largest banks; a major industrial company with dealings in the UK, Australia, and South Africa; the venerable and increasingly unlucky tech investor Softbank; and a high-flying and hard-crashing boutique bank, Greensill Capital, with […]
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To RISE or not to RISE: Ten Questions you should ask SAP about RISE
It’s really hard to have a conversation with or about SAP without hearing something about RISE with SAP. Its dominant position in the marketing and sales efforts of the company has made it inescapable, whether you’re a customer listening to yet another keynote presentation or sales exec’s pitch, or you’re a partner trying to understand […]
What is Innovation at SAP and How Far Can it Go?
The starting point for this post was a conversation with an industry veteran about innovation, in which he opined: “SAP doesn’t innovate anymore. How come they don’t have something like HoloLens?”
I’ve been pondering that declaration for a while. I agree that HoloLens is immensely cool, and that most of the feature/function bloat in the nth rev of an established enterprise software product is more ‘meh’ than magical, at least to me. But SAP doesn’t innovate? They really don’t have anything like HoloLens – true enough.
Laggards, Logos, and Licenses: Inside The Enterprise Software Industry’s Upgrade Dilemma
The yin/yang dichotomy between problem and opportunity has never been more apparent in looking at the quandary enterprise software vendors face in the race to encourage their customers to upgrade to the latest version of their flagship products. It’s a strange place where Hobson’s Choice meets Schrödinger’s cat, and where, as a result, sales strategies […]