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Dharma, Karma & SAP in India

July 16, 2011 by Manju Bansal
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Since 1989, India has been on a reform agenda, opening its economy and dismantling the license Raj that had shackled the country since Independence in 1947. And as the country found its economic rhythm, a curious thing happened – consumers began demanding more not only from their government and their commercial providers (i.e. the mobile phone company, the cable TV guy) but more recently, from their spiritual providers as well. [read more]

Innovation with the Cloud & Flying Scallops in the North Atlantic

April 6, 2011 by Peter Auditore
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Information technology is one of the most competitive weapons in the arsenal of business today and has been a game changer in many industries. Perhaps one of the most famous stories of the early Internet days was how Charles Schwab took billions in market share because Merrill Lynch’s CEO at the time David Komansky said the high net worth people would never trade over the Internet. [read more]

Wait! Does SaaS mean that IT really doesn’t matter?

January 17, 2011 by Rahul Asthana
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In a May 2003 article in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter,” Nicholas Carr shook up the business and IT world with a simple premise:  Information technology was like electricity to companies – essential to running their businesses (keeping the lights on, literally), but irrelevant to giving them a strategic... [read more]

Retailers adapt mobility to remain competitive

September 25, 2010 by Kamal Karmakar
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Mobility is about transacting real time data at the point of activity and accessing relevant business information whenever or wherever required. In retail this allows more staff to be available on the shop floor, where the customers are, and not at the back office.  The benefit of concentrating staff availability in customer facing... [read more]

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Some Very Cool Companies are Joining Us...

September 11, 2010 by Robin Carey
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We've had hundreds of people signing up to learn more about the latest ways to reduce costs, simplify implementation and gain competitve advantage in our first-ever Summit about On-Demand technology, taking place September 28.  This gathering of some of the best brains in management, tech, finance and business growth will share... [read more]

Social Media Policy Outside and Inside the Enterprise

July 21, 2009 by Bill Ives
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I am cross posting this from FastFoward to get more feedback and perhaps additional examples. I would be very interested in any other social media guidelines that you think are useful, especially those for activity within the enterprise. I think companies are focusing their guidelines too much on public use. As the use of social media... [read more]

Blogger of the Week: Gavin Heaton

June 29, 2009 by BrianRoger
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“I particularly remember walking across the school yard and seeing our school captain Paul Davis—a tough, charismatic footballer—sitting with younger kids and singing to them while playing a guitar. I saw the kids mesmerized. I was amazed that this school celebrity was just hanging out and enjoying himself. And as I got closer, I... [read more]

The First Wave of Software as a Service Hits the Beach: Small Business Benefits, Challenges and Choices

June 2, 2009 by Peter Auditore
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Often the key to success in any business is finding a niche or chink in a big company’s armour and attack it, and/or exploit an inflection point in an industry. This is exactly what many of today’s Software as a Service vendors are doing, and the inflection point in the software industry began with Google, circa 1999. This is their... [read more]

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Interview: Ralf Strauss on marketing planning

April 17, 2009 by BrianRoger
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Dr. Ralf Strauss recently found time in his busy schedule to talk to MyVenturePad about marketing planning. Ralf has been chief marketing officer for SAP in Germany and Central Europe since 2003. Last year he took on responsibility for global product management for all SAP CRM marketing solutions—that is, for solution strategy, product... [read more]

Early Indications March 2009: A Disruption Scorecard

March 30, 2009 by JohnJordan1
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With the newspaper business in apparent freefall, it's perhaps useful to tally up some of the various winners and losers among the incumbent business models as compared to 1994, the year the commercial web began to take off. It appears that there are multiple ways to be disrupted, that some industries are far better off than they were... [read more]

How Do BI Vendor Product Roadmaps Impact Customer CAPEX Budgets for Software Implementations?

March 8, 2009 by Fermin Iduate
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First off it’s basically a 3 player battleground, Oracle and SAP, with IBM playing catch-up. Microsoft is on the sidelines nervously awaiting their turn to play, but way behind from a “big-business” gaming standpoint. I don't agree with some market opinions that SAP has fallen behind in terms of having an “Integrated” set of solutions.... [read more]

SAP At A Cultural Tipping Point?

March 2, 2009 by ablebrains
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I wanted to spend a few minutes talking about the use of Social Media at and by SAP. And although this is a post on my personal blog, consider it a motivational speech to my SAP colleagues. This was motivated by a brief conversation on Twitter with Dennis Howlett, a person I respect and consider a friend. This weekend, Dennis tweeted... [read more]

Video of "Growing in Down Economy" Panel, Hosted by MVP and SAP

January 27, 2009 by Evan Cook
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Part II: Back in December, SAP and MyVenturePad hosted an event at SAP's Morton St. offices in New York, to mark the first anniversary of our partnership and celebrate MyVenturePad's impressive growth rate.The event included a panel discussion around "Growing in a Down Economy," featuring panelists Albert Wenger, a Managing Partner at... [read more]

SAP EcoHub: Connecting For Success

January 25, 2009 by Usman Sheikh
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Of the many lessons learnt from Barack Obama’s successful presidential election campaign the most outstanding is how his campaign used the Internet. By using interactive Web 2.0 tools, Mr. Obama’s campaign changed the way politicians organize supporters, advertise to voters, defend against attacks, and communicate with constituents. The... [read more]

Selecting New Business Software - The First Thing to Ask Is - WHY?

January 8, 2009 by CarlLewis
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Typically, the first thing I ask when meeting with a new prospective customer is, "Why are you looking for new business management software for your business?" I am probably jusy overly curious, but given more than a few years in the industry, it still amazes me that people actually want to undertake the challenge. By now, most people... [read more]

Leadership Is About Skills Not Gender

November 5, 2008 by NinaSimosko
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The current political scene has brought an important issue to the forefront.  Specifically, how, if at all, are leadership and gender intertwined?  While in the past I have written about leadership and women, what the current situation clarifies for me is that it’s not really about gender at all; but rather, it is about... [read more]

Not that one could call it a pleasure...

November 3, 2008 by Robin Carey
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Not that one could call it a pleasure, but I’ve been knee-deep in the effect the current down-turn is having on the economy, thanks to SAP.  The global software company, as evidence of its commitment to small and growing businesses, has been conducting a web-based conversation on “Weathering the Economy,” with leading experts... [read more]

Lean and Mean Forever!

September 19, 2008 by Robin Carey
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Barbara, We're looking at growth this year, but being very strategic about expenses. We're particularly looking for ways to save on marketing, using new web-based tools to network our customers and potential customers, rather than expensive, broadcast advertising that we've used in the past. [read more]

A Subversive Meets CRM: My Interview with Paul Greenberg

July 29, 2008 by Robin Carey
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Paul Greenberg and I have a few things in common:  we both like sushi, we like how SAP is transforming itself by its embrace of social media and bloggers, and Jack Kemp remains our favorite Republican.  Paul also has given up the barricade-storming of his youth (we probably were at many of the same marches) to throw slings and... [read more]

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Globalizing Your Small Business

June 3, 2008 by MyVenturePad MyVenturePad
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Originally aired Wednesday, May 28, 2008 For any small or medium enterprise, going global can lead to a world of issues. Technology is essential, but it's just the price of admission to global markets. What advice does Hans-Peter Klaey, President of Global SME for SAP, have for small and medium enterprises looking to go global? What... [read more]

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