AWS gets SAP Afaria mobile device management
SAP brings its Afaria mobile device management platform to the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.
SAP brings its Afaria mobile device management platform to the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.
Are policy changes at SAP a good thing? I'm not convinced.
Not content with lambasting SAP for not being in the SaaS market, NetSuite now thinks SAP is making life tough for the channel. I'd argue quite the opposite. The market is changing and all players need to adapt.
Te SAP Business Influencer Summit gave us an opportunity to explore a broad range of SAP related strategies and topics. In doing so, I'm not convinced the company is living up to its 'clarity' pitch. Business ByDesign got plenty of attention - SAP's big play in 2010.
This week's SAP influencer summit was a roller coaster affair. On the one hand I didn't detect anything fundamentally new on the BusinessObjects side other than a considerable amount of repackaging with a view to gaining additional sales.
A combined Oracle and BEA offers a strategic bludgeon to all three of Oracle's main competitors -- IBM, SAP and Microsoft. At the same time, the Oracle and BEA mashup gives longtime rumored potential BEA acquirer HP a fascinating new partner for a greater depth of reach of IT solutions. Strategically aligned Oracle and HP helps reach parity with IBM, while besting SAP and Microsoft for strategic accounts penetration and retention.