This week’s keynote for SAP’s SAPPHIRE conference was intended as a teaser for several ensuing weeks of content, an embarrassment of riches that will be hard for any single individual to navigate successfully. So with all due respect to the many initiatives being touted in the coming sessions, here’s a quick viewpoint on what I think will be the most important part of SAPPHIRE: Business Networks. What follows here is a preview of the main challenges that I think SAP has to overcome in order to make good on the promise of what is genuinely a potential paradigm shift in enterprise software and the global economy.