News from SAPPHIRE 2008
Times are charged for SAP, the customer community and partner ecosystem, and with more than 15,000 attendees converging at the premier SAP educational and networking conference, this year’s ASUG + SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando certainly was action packed.
With year's conference perhaps being co-CEO Henning Kagermann's last, the integration of Business Objects into the SAP fold, and SAP making bold moves to grow its business in the SME market segment, times are most definitely changing for SAP.
Read InformationWeek article by Mary Hayes Weier: SAPPHIRE Sets Stage for a Different Kind of SAP
SAP is slowing down the roll out of its on-demand Busines ByDesign solution for small and midsize businesses to ensure optimal functionality (and pricing), but it's gearing up to pull the trigger on on-demand components powered by the BBD platform for large enterprise customers.
Read Between the Lines post by Larry Dignan: SAP Confirms Business ByDesign Delay
Read InformationWeek article by Mary Hayes Weier: SAP Reveals Plan to Bring SaaS to Large Companies
On the SME front, SAP announced big gains for Q1 2008. SMEs now constitute 75 percent of SAP's overall customer base, totaling more than 35,000 customers.
Read CIO blog post by Thomas Wailgum: SAP Goes with Gusto for Small and Medium-Sized Business Customers
Also on the partnership front;
SAP Embraces Business Objects Partners and Demonstrates Benefits of Expanded Partner Ecosystem
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