UK businesses suffer 'sustainability headache' in planning eco-friendly futures
Overall business strategies and the wish to be environmentally conscious do not always align.
Overall business strategies and the wish to be environmentally conscious do not always align.
SAP's new CEO, Christian Klein, gave a speech to a global virtual audience on June 15. Was he able to define a new direction for SAP? Yes and no. How was it as a virtual event? Read on.
Let me start this with a strange and seemingly incoherent (but truly more inchoate) statement."If SAP marketed to the rest of the world, the way they produce conferences, they could arguably become the best technology company on the planet.
Google phone, Apple's countersuit against Nokia, the Crunchpad/JooJoo lawsuit and Microsoft's consumer business are at the top of the headlines.
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SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming their ecosystem - internal and network - when the world's conditions merit it.
Notable headlines:Nate McFeters: Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers?Common misconceptions about database securitySapphire 2008:Dennis Howlett: The changing SAP cultureLarry Dignan: SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led to delayIn search of Business ByDesign: The NetWeaver 7.
Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme.
Following SAP CEO Henning Kagermann’s presentation at SAP's fourth annual analyst summit, Shai Agassi, president of the Product & Technology Group, laid out the company's technical vision. He believes that SAP is in position to lead the chasm-crossing from the client-server model to enterprise SOA, and become the dominant software platform.