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 For the past two years I have been predicting that M2M (machine to machine) communications will eventually become important and ultimately merge with enterprise mobility. Why? Both involve remote and often mobile sources of data coming into the enterprise.
A few weeks ago, SAP made ...May. 15, 2012 06:03 AM EDT Reads: 530 |
 This is the second article in this series on SAP's announced intent to acquire Syclo. You can read Part 1 here.
I am now on my second cup of coffee, a different day, but still pondering SAP's announced acquisition of Syclo. On the Linkedin group, SAP Enterprise Mobility (you should...Apr. 12, 2012 05:25 PM EDT Reads: 803 |
 I keep reading these stories about how various cloud service providers are building up their consulting practices around cloud computing mostly to address the enterprise market (see my previous post for some thoughts on that subject). These articles mostly read like it's a surprising r...Mar. 29, 2012 04:56 PM EDT Reads: 1,108 |
 As regular readers of this blog already know, I have been championing the convergence of enterprise mobility and M2M (machine to machine) for several years now. Why? M2M is mostly data collected in the field and wirelessly sent and integrated with back-end systems and ERPs. That kin...Mar. 20, 2012 04:24 PM EDT Reads: 1,007 |
 I've been working on setting up a new environment for SAP IDM 7.1 SP5 (yes I know 6 is available). This installation is notable for me since I am configuring it around.
So it's my first pure 64 Bit system. I'm pretty excited. So I got the OS installed no problem. Got SQL installed....Sep. 12, 2011 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,065 |
 Some kinds of solutions just seem naturally suited for being in a cloud-centric network. For example, why do companies buy and deploy their own in-house EDI solution and create unique data maps to every supplier or business trading partner in order to exchange EDI data? This is about ...Feb. 17, 2011 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,451 |
 I received an interesting call yesterday from a Wall Street analyst. He wanted my opinion on SAP's acquisition of Sybase. His premise was that there was not $5.8 billion worth of value in Sybase. I responded that I had no expertise in valuation so could not help him in that determinat...Dec. 28, 2010 02:05 PM EST Reads: 3,457 |
 Enterprise mobility is a term often used in the context of remote and traveling workers, but it can also be used for situations inside the four walls of a manufacturing plant. This article explores the use of enterprise mobility solutions within the four walls of a plant using SAP.
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 I was 25-26 years old when I worked at IBM. Steve was not much older. IBM, like many companies, plots a career path for every new employee it hires. It moves them from job to job grooming them from their first day on the job until their retirement. Whenever I took an elevator with Mill...Aug. 29, 2010 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 12,279 |
 I was fortunate to have attended yesterday's SAP Sybase Executive Briefing in Boston. Also attending were SAP Mentors, Jon Reed and Susan Keohan, "the workflow goddess." There was a lot covered, but in this report I am going to focus onAug. 21, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,553 |
 SAP has a section of their SDN/SCN portal for enterprise mobility. On this site they have a diagram depicting an end-to-end mobile solution. This diagram does a good job of causing fear in just about everyone. The diagram shows a deep stack of technology components, each with their ow...Jun. 28, 2010 11:25 AM EDT Reads: 2,642 |
 One of the coolest things about NetWeaver Identity Manager is that there are always new tricks to learn. The development team keeps finding new and interesting ways to extend the functionality of the product. This, in turn, allows us to further extend what we can offer to our customers...Jun. 23, 2010 04:11 PM EDT Reads: 2,081 |
 I received an email today from a firm that just completed face to face meetings with over 100 SAP customers. In these meetings the SAP customers identified the SAP solutions they would like to learn more about and then prioritized them. The fifth hottest topic among these SAP custome...Jun. 22, 2010 11:31 AM EDT Reads: 2,026 |
 I am a big believer in the saying "content is king!" So when I read recently that Open Text announced they were going to mobilize their enterprise content management products with a solution called Open Text Everywhere, I was intrigued but skeptical. Open Text provides powerful enter...Jun. 9, 2010 07:42 PM EDT Reads: 2,329 |
 I was able to meet up with Sky Technologies' CTO, Steve Ware, at Sapphire a few weeks ago and unfortunately for him I had a digital video camera in my hands. SAP had provided us SAP Mentors with very small Flip digital video cameras, and I recorded his views on MEAPs (mobile enterpri...Jun. 9, 2010 01:23 PM EDT Reads: 2,061 |
 Mobile middleware is more than synchronizing databases and providing basic application integration. It needs to include support for business process extensions, and it must provide a set of features and functions that support lightweight, "Instant Value" or "Mobile Micro-Apps" smartpho...Jun. 9, 2010 01:18 PM EDT Reads: 2,423 |
 A lot has been said the past couple months about broadband as the fourth utility. The same status as roads, water, and electricity. As an American, the next generation will have broadband network access as an entitlement. But is it enough?Apr. 16, 2010 09:33 PM EDT Reads: 6,723 |
 I read with interest today a press release about SAP partner EntryPoint Consulting. I know them, and they are a long term SAP consulting and channel partner that is involved in the CRM side of SAP. They were involved in some of the earliest implementations of mobile SAP CRM several ye...Apr. 14, 2010 11:53 AM EDT Reads: 3,420 |
 There's a huge drive now for improved enterprise data center performance. Nearly all enterprises are involved nowadays with some level of data-center transformation, either in the planning stages or in outright build-out.
We're seeing many instances where numerous data centers are b...Apr. 10, 2010 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,167 |
 M2M is not only a cool acronym, kind of James Bond like, but a very interesting category in the wireless industry. M2M in this context means machine-to-machine wireless connectivity. A few other terms that describe this category are "the Internet of Objects" or the "Internet of Thing...Apr. 6, 2010 10:27 AM EDT Reads: 3,575 |
 As of March 10th, 2010 almost exactly one year after uploading our first how-to video, our videos are averaging 150 collective hits per day and have reached the 20,000 view milestone. Being the author of these videos, I am glad to see that people are benefiting from our content and rea...Mar. 13, 2010 04:45 PM EST Reads: 3,245 |
 Would you use Linkedin if you had to make a phone call and ask each person individually if they were using Linkedin before connecting to them? What if you had to manually program each connection yourself according to the mobile operating system and version each friend or contact was us...Mar. 11, 2010 09:43 AM EST Reads: 3,051 |
 In the comment section of the article SAP Mobility Challenge, Part 4 there is an interesting discussion that I wanted to highlight for those that may have missed it.
I agree about t...Mar. 9, 2010 03:33 PM EST Reads: 2,910 |
 I have heard much discussion lately on the subject of mobile micro applications in the SAP ecosystem. These are described as light weight mobile applications that do simple things.
There are literally hundreds of these micro-apps possible. The challenge is how does a SAP customer man...Mar. 8, 2010 05:28 PM EST Reads: 2,684 |
 I was speaking to one of my friends at SAP this week who mentioned that only 5% of a typical SAP customers' workforce is "white collar." What is the significance? That same 5% also happens to be the SAP users in a company. SAP is looking for mobility partners to address the mobility ne...Mar. 5, 2010 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,555 |
 Systems Integrators represent a significant sales channel for SAP. Systems Integrators often have resources assigned to various SAP upgrades, integrations, customization and development projects onsite at a SAP customer's location. Often it is the systems integrators who first hear of ...Mar. 4, 2010 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,511 |
 CA and 3Tera have announced CA’s acquisition of the innovative cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service vendor. This is a great thing for Computer Associates, and perhaps a bit sad for the cloud community in general. Why? It is hard to fit the energy and enthusiasm felt when walki...Feb. 25, 2010 05:00 PM EST Reads: 3,274 |
 SAP Netweaver B1iSN for SAP Business One is an enterprise level integration tool, built for small and midsize companies. Netweaver allows for seamless integration to dozens of systems using pre-built integration frameworks. Whether it is an E-commerce website, parent company running R/...Feb. 25, 2010 10:45 AM EST Reads: 4,682 |
 SAP can be like a giant aircraft carrier moving powerfully across the ocean. It is huge and heavy and if you are a swimmer in the ocean trying to make it change directions to suite your purposes, good luck. A more successful approach is to understand the direction the ship is going and...Feb. 22, 2010 02:18 PM EST Reads: 2,497 |
 SAP has made its 12sprints collaborative decision-making project available via public beta and has formed a strategic research partnership with The 2.0 Adoption Council – a peer forum of IT and business leaders and thinkers who are discovering new ways of working in modern organization...Feb. 21, 2010 05:00 PM EST Reads: 3,824 |
 In a recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan called, European Mobile Sales Force Automation (CRM/SFA) Markets, it is stated that mobile SFA is the largest application segment after wireless email, and this segment will grow close to 300% between now and 2013.
SAP seems to be making a ...Feb. 20, 2010 03:00 AM EST Reads: 3,423 |
 Yesterday I was reading Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms. It was interesting to me that one of the points Gartner considers before including a MEAP vendor in their report is marketing. Gartner understands what many smart engineers have not yet learne...Feb. 10, 2010 09:30 AM EST Reads: 2,960 |
 There are several different categories of mobile applications that work with or integrate with SAP.Those that provide real-time mobile views of complete SAP applicationsThose that provide mobile queries and reports on SAP data Jan. 28, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,423 |
 Terry Pratchett once wrote that “Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off”. We could make a similar comment about the financials of SaaS BI companies. As much as startups in this field would like to shake off their bad economics, reality always catches up. We’re s...Dec. 17, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 4,146 |
 Before moving an enterprise application to the cloud, you need to be sure that your expectations are realistic and your objectives match what the cloud can deliver. In this post, I’d like to share what we’ve learned from working with our beta customers, from their initia... Dec. 16, 2009 06:15 PM EST Reads: 4,898 |
 SAP has announced this week that one of their strategic focuses for the next 5 years is mobile computing and mobile software applications according to SAP chief technology officer Vishal Sikka said. The pervasiveness of mobile computing and social networking also have SAP developing ap...Dec. 16, 2009 09:45 AM EST Reads: 4,254 |
 The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so, who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are being tested? To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of it...Dec. 15, 2009 10:15 PM EST Reads: 17,979 |
 Organizations have begun extending their SOA initiatives beyond traditional enterprise boundaries to encompass third-party, geographically remote, and even cloud-based resources. As a result, the complexity associated with migrating applications across these environments (for example, ...Dec. 12, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 4,895 |
 Further extending its modular solutions tailored for the banking industry, SAP AG has announced innovations to its industry-specific banking software that supports banks’ business processes from the front to the back office. The new release of banking services from SAP directly address...Dec. 7, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,170 |
 Lately there seems to be a minor debate among the clouderati about the semantic differences between the term "the cloud" versus the use of "cloud computing". So I thought I'd jump into the fray.As someone who spends ... Nov. 9, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 4,759 |
