SAP and SuccessFactors Roadmap Analysis
SAP issued the following press release this morning: SAP and SuccessFactors Accelerate Unified Product Direction which covered their product direction across core HR, Talent Management, HCM Analytics and Integration and I thought I would outline my initial thoughts on each of the main points. Product Direction Across Core HR, Talent Management, HCM Analytics SuccessFactors Employee Central solution [...]
SAP On Amazon Web Services
Sapphire Now conference is going on in Orlando right now and it is time to hear about another player from the traditional era making their software available on AWS (previous CloudAve coverage). According to Arik Hesseldahl, Amazon today announced that they are working with SAP (previous CloudAve coverage) to run their applications on Amazon cloud. [...]
Twitter in the Enterprise – Round 56745327
In the last minute I had to cancel my trip to the SAP Influencer Summit, but I am following it almost as if I was there – by following the Tweet Stream. SAP has also provided a Virtual Environment, where analysts, media, bloggers can interactively participate – right now I am watching a live video [...]
Integrating SAP and Google Wave, And The Context-Based Future of Business User Applications
Now that the Google Wave “sandbox” environment is widely available (see Starting with Google Wave if you need more background information), we’re starting to see some great examples of integrations between Google Wave and SAP systems. DJ Adams’ great post on SDN shows how he built a robot to intercept SAP-specific references in a Google [...]
Video Interview with SAP’s John Schwartz
host Scott McGrew, TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy and Fortune’s Jon Fortt interview SAP Executive Board Member John Schwartz in this two-part video. Schwartz came to SAP through their acquisition of Business Objects, and unlike many acquisitions where the “assimilated” CEO gets slowly marginalized, this one seems to have worked well. In fact John Schwartz is becoming [...]
