http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2007/04/23/sap-and-the-way-forward-to-the-new-idea/ Technology and other Interesting Stuff Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:16:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2007/04/23/sap-and-the-way-forward-to-the-new-idea/#comment-136 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:18:21 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=268#comment-136 [...] Dan Farber has great coverage of the keynote where Hasso Plattner outlined SAP's "new idea" for on demand software – a vision that includes community and collaboration at its core. Jeff says it's criminal that SAP sat on this so-called "MySpace for the enterprise" for a year. Of course, this natural given that enterprises are slow-moving by their nature. SAP TechEd '06 was eye-opening for me – it's clear these guys get it from the top-down. (Credentialing bloggers was a big clue). If they truly want to play in the small- and medium-business markets, however, they're going to need to learn to innovate faster. As Tom Carroll suggests, this is a monolithic challenge but ultimately service abstractions are the way to achieve this agility.  [...]

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