If you’re going to ASUG and/or SAPPHIRE in Orlando in May, you’ll want to check out the presentation by SoftBrands own Diane Palmquist, VP of SAP Products:
Subject: 3 Reasons You Can’t Afford to Ignore Software-as-a-Service.
When: May 5, 2008 at 2:15 - 3:15
Where: Content Area: Small & Medium Enterprise. Orange County Convention Center.
If you want to familiarize [...]
Entries from April 2008
SAP plans party in May: ASUG & SAPPHIRE
April 24th, 2008 · Posted by Mark Palony · No Comments
Tags: ASUG · SAP · SAP Business ByDesign · SaaS
Business Process Management Part III: Skills and tools for success
April 22nd, 2008 · Posted by Mark Palony · No Comments
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Chuck Sacco concludes the BPM equation by adding the final variables for success: skills & tools.
You may have a great implementation plan, but without the right skills in place and tools at hand your chances of are limited.
Listen to the final episode and you’ll find out what tools are available, what skill [...]
Tags: Enterprise Software
Business Process Management part II: Implementation best practices
April 17th, 2008 · Posted by Mark Palony · No Comments
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Business Process Management isn’t brain surgery, but, as with most things, if you fail to execute you lose. You lose time and money that can never be recovered. Failure also mean you stand a good chance of losing ground against the competition.
Simply put: Execution is everything, and that is what Business Process Management [...]
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Business Process Management part I: A history
April 15th, 2008 · Posted by Mark Palony · 4 Comments
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Ever heard of Business Process Management, aka BPM?
I’m joking.
Whenever a topic finds its way into the headlines of almost every e-newsletter I subscribe to, I ask if the subject is really that important, or if it’s simply a case of editors not wanting to be left out of the conversation. BPM has [...]
Tags: BPM · Business Process Managment
SAP exec: The present and future of on-demand software
April 10th, 2008 · Posted by Mark Palony · No Comments
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In second part of my conversation with SAP’s Ralf Menhert-Meland we switch tracks. Moving away from SAP specific topics, he and I discuss the fast-growing market of on-demand software.
SAP entered the market with the unveiling of SAP Business ByDesign in October of last year and, while it isn’t the first SaaS product [...]
Tags: Enterprise Software · SAP · SAP Business ByDesign · SAP Business One · SME · SaaS
SAP executive on SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign & the importance of partners
April 7th, 2008 · Posted by Mark Palony · 1 Comment
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SAP has been very public about its goal to reach 100,000 customers by 2010 and, to be successful, SAP will have to rely on their global network of partners . To better understand the critical role partners will play, I was fortunate to have an opportunity to speak with Ralf Mehnert-Meland a global senior [...]
Tags: Enterprise Software · SAP · SAP Business ByDesign · SAP Business One · SME · SaaS · SoftBrands

