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• Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?
• 9 days ago
• Amidst the PR blitz and the blizzard of 1:1 meetings that constitute the foreground experience of SAP’s Sapphire user conference this week (see Larry’s coverage here, and Dennis’ coverage here), there’s an interesting back story emerging. If you look at SAP’s last quarter, and believe the formal and informal guidance they’re making about the current [...] ...

• SAP’s Business ByDesign: Explaining the Delays
• 13 days ago
• In the wake of the brouhaha surrounding the delayed rollout of Business ByDesign and the allegations of technical difficulties (the thread in the Enterprise Irregulars discussion was called BBD=DOA?), I spoke to Hans-Peter Klaey and Jeff Stiles, the two men at SAP responsible for bringing BBD, and the rest of the company’s SMB portfolio, to [...] ...

• The Leo Apotheker Legacy Starts Now
• 15 days ago
• The news that SAP is delaying the roll-out of Business ByDesign – and that its last quarter, while decent, failed to meet analyst estimates – is the perfect preamble to this post: With Leo Apotheker slated to assume to mantle of SAP by the end of the year, his mandate – and challenges – [...] ...

• Microsoft CRM Online Hunts Salesforce.com
• 27 days ago
• The official GA release of Microsoft’s CRM Online offering is next week, and with it comes a new chapter in the life of Salesforce.com. To date Salesforce.com has lacked a major competitor that could be seen as a worthy opponent in terms of overall size, price, functionality, and marketing chops. Oracle has the marketing chops, [...] ...

• Salesforce.com Cozies up to Google Apps Rev 2.0
• 37 days ago
• Like the inner tube with the pinhole leak that suddenly explodes, the hissing of rumors coming out of the much-hyped April 14 “important announcement” by Salesforce.com has finally blasted out something of substance: a purported deal to resell or otherwise feature Google’s Apps as part of the Salesforce.com CRM offering. It should come as no [...] ...