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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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This review was originally published in January, but SearchSAP.com’s look back at SAP and its 2007 progress in the midmarket, SME, SMB, or whatever your pleasure, is worth a reread.
SAP’s midmarket strength has been a cornerstone of its global success , but with the unveiling of SAP Business ByDesign in October, the software giant not [...]

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 This may seem an odd topic for this blog, but hang in there and you’ll see the connection.
I got into a discussion the other day about why people buy. The conversation came around to the world of enterpise software - where I live - and that’s when it got interesting.
The ERP market is by most measures [...]

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