And thank God for it! Of course, most enterprises either have licensing arrangements that preclude their continued use of XP in the long term, or have the resources to continue deploying it...

Ben Worthen's Wall Street Journal article on Arizona State University's recently completed ERP implementation project has resulted in quite a little mini-firestorm of debate over the relative...

Information Week, among other sources, is reporting that the next version of Microsoft Office is due out in 2009. With no official word yet from Microsoft, you have to wonder why they would be...

SAP, the technology leader in business software solutions, will hold its board meeting in India for the first time ever. The seven-member board of the 35-year-old company will meet in New Delhi from...

Small and medium businesses (up to 999 employees) in India are on track to spend about US $640 million on packaged software purchases this year, up more than 25 percent over what they invested in all...

Recently there was an announcement of a joint venture between business intelligence vendor Business Objects and one of the world's leading sources for financial data, Thomson Financial, goes well...

Ingres has delivered a business intelligence appliance of its Icebreaker database and Linux combination, after teaming up with JasperSoft for its open source business intelligence (BI) suite....

Salesforce.com IInd Quater results summary: Subscriber / Growth - We achieved a new milestone in customer additions by adding 3,000 net new customers during the quarter, to bring our total customer...

Fast Facts: 85,000 Dynamics CRM seats were sold during Microsoft's Q4There's a total of 11,000 customers and 475,000 people on Dynamics CRM overall (Compare - Salesforce.com seven years to...

Excerpts from the interview: InformationWeek: As a result of Oracle's acquisition strategy, you've helped turn the company into a Wall Street darling and greatly improved its market cap. But...

Salesforce.com last week introduced a new service that uses service-oriented architecture technology to ease the process of integrating third-party applications with its hosted customer relationship...

Springboard's data shows significant growth in awareness and adoption of SaaS across the region with the market increasing 92.5% in 2006 to reach a market size of US$154 million. Springboard...

Found this nice post which highlights the thoughts of the BO Chairman/CSO on Enterprise software, quite comprehensive, Excerpt below: Hybrid Model - He said enterprise software companies...

Computerworld has an interview with Lawson's CEO Harry Debes, Below are some interesting excerpts from the same: Harry Debes took over as CEO of Lawson Software Inc. in June 2005, just as the...

As I got us this morning a thought occurred to me, that the whole concept of Business network transformation will not work without the enablement of the SME/SMB s to participate on the network...

Nucleus Research published an "independent" report titled "SAP AND ORACLE: WHO'S READY FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES?" All the Enterprise Vendors seem to be focused on...

During the SAP Summit one of the interesting meeting was with Durgadutt Nedungadi, he delivered a pretty good keynote on day 1 and had some time set up with him later which was quite interesting....

One of the other interesting conversations I had during the SAP Summit was with Rolf Schumann (CTO EMEA - SAP), Like most of the SAP execs he is a citizen of Lufthansa. Which is not big surprise I...

The first afternoon of the SAP Summit was packed back to back with keynotes, some interesting others not. So to summarize the day, below are some snapshots of interesting slides from the same. Tags:...

Today SAP announced their 1000th SME customer in india, Subhiksha Retail. SAP seems to be growing at a rampant pace in India, with almost 400 customer new wins in 2007. Which translates to additions...

I am at the SAP Summit in India, this is the Sapphire equal in India. SAP & Mike I think have succeeded in making the Blogger Relations program global. For this specific invite we have Nagaraj...

"SaaS has undergone a very substantial increase in awareness and adoption in the last 12 months," said Dane Anderson, CEO & EVP of Research for Springboard Research. "Awareness...

Key take-aways from the business intelligence and information management track at the the Gartner IT Expo include: Business intelligence competency center (BICC) - Gartner estimates that 33%...

Excerpts from a an interview with Howard Dressner, CSO of Hyperion, strangely no questions around the Oracle acquisition and changes caused by it, i still have my set of pending questions here, would...

With the increased M&A activity in the CPM/BI space, we are going to see a lot of action in this area, SAP has worked it into their office of the CFO offering and their GRC solution set. Below are...

A keynonte that i did want to catch was the now famous blackboard key note by Hasso Platnner, today i went to the Sapphire Atlanta Online and got the slide deck and saw webcast. From the slide deck...

Saturday afternoon, In between meeting , Yes i am working today .....i was just looking through the transcript of the salesforce.com earnings call, i found quite a few interesting statements, below...

At Sapphire Vienna, a couple of us bloggers got to spend sometime with Doug Merritt, He is now one of the SAP corporate officers, who is responsible for the development of software for the business...

Salesforce.com has paired with Cognizant in a consulting and regional alliance that may enhance their ability to further penetrate into SMB and larger organizations. As part of the alliance, Cognizant...

"After the hype of A1S comes the search for truth: and the truth is that SAP has been dragged towards SaaS kicking and screaming, because it is alien to its way of working to value the...

Towards the end of the event I decided to attend a presentation on On Demand CRM solution of SAP, the one comment that stuck me as odd, went something like this "On Demand is good for the simple...

I am pretty much the last man standing in the bloggers corner, but today I got to attend the key note by Geoffrey Moore on "Business Network Transformation" was quite interesting. Which I...

Here is a slide with the SME Portfolio: SAP Business One - 10 Users SAP A1S - Around 50 Users SAP All-in-one - Around 100 users (i might be a little off in terms of the number of users, but......

We had a great day at Sapphire, Vienna ...a few of us bloggers got to meet up with Henning Kagermann, it was a pretty interesting session, goes to show the kind of access...

Henning Kagermann keynote had a few interesting nuggets otherwise it was a a little bit of the old wine in new bottle in this first post let me just highlight on a few key themes...

Well i finally did manage to make it Vienna, yesterday morning. Spent the afternoon walking around with Bruno, David & Charlie. Some really interesting discussions, I am sure the a lot of them are...

A report made available at the Software 2007 site is titled "State of the Software Industry" it seems to be a joint study of Mckinsey and the Sandhill group. The full report is available...

IDC's thoughts on the Hyperion Oracle Merger in their report titled "A Focus on Intel ligence: Oracle ' s Renewed BI Strategy" Dear Hyperion Customer - Protect, Extend, EvolveIn a...

While thinking about this acquisition a lot of questions came up, for which i am trying to find answers in the blogosphere, as part of that effort i am positing some of the questions here to see...

At the Sapphire in Atlanta Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's Business Division, joined Leo Apotheker, deputy CEO of SAP, to share the extended product roadmap for Duet software, a solution...

Regular readers(if there are any :)) would already be familiar with SAP's blogger relationship program,as a part of which we covered the SAPPHIRE and TechEd events last year. This years...

SAP's acquisition of Outlooksoft found mention in an Forrester Report from March, I was just reading the Forrester report titled "Hyperion Acquisition Boosts Oracle's Position In Business...

Yesterday SAP announced its intention to acquire OutlookSoft Corporation, a privately held provider of integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation software. OutlookSoft was founded...

Results from IDC's Analysis of the RDBMS Market, The relational database management systems (RDBMS) market perked up in 2006, showing some vigor, even in unexpected places. Oracle continued to...

AMR has an article on SAP A1S product, below are some excerpts form the same: Code-named "A1S," the new product will complement SAP's existing midmarket products, Business One and...

Recently BusinessObjects announced the acquisition of Cartesis, Under terms of the agreement, Business Objects will pay a total transaction value of €225M (approximately $300M) in cash. Cartesis is...

I have been at Hyperion's Solution 2007 conference over the last couple of days, i have had a great time, As with most things in life i like a few things and there were others that i didn't...

LucidEra was recently named one of the 10 enterprise software companies to watch at NetworkWorld, Below are some excerpts: Why is it worth watching? LucidEra lets customers outsource business...

Vodafone Group Chief Financial Officer Andy Halford said, "Accenture's experience and expertise in this area will help ensure that the new ERP system delivers a range of benefits to Vodafone...

In an interview with ComputerWorld Vishal Sikka the Chief Software Architect of SAP has some very interesting comments: He also talked about one of the company's first on-demand offerings, its...