Vijay Vijayasankar

Now I believe SAP is serious about collaboration

I had an unusually busy day today, and consequently missed out “officially” congratulating my buddy Sameer Patel and SAP when he broke the news on twitter and on his blog http://www.pretzellogic.org/blog/2012/03/13/im-joining-sap-ag/. Of course I knew about it for a while since he and I had discussed this a few times as he was considering theContinue reading “Now I believe SAP is serious about collaboration”

SAP’s Cloud Strategy – are they good on the 5 M s?

Many years ago, I went to B school in India to get my MBA. Everything there was 5 Ps, 3 Cs and so on. I have tried to stay away from talking in those terms – but then yesterday, Jamie Oswald started a facebook discussion on the use of MBA. That brought back a lotContinue reading “SAP’s Cloud Strategy – are they good on the 5 M s?”

SAP Project Failures – it ain’t a binary issue

We all have our perspective on why SAP projects fail. Michael Krigsman, Dennis Howlett, Michael Doane , Vinnie Mirchandani et al have riffed at length on this topic. I am not sure what is left to be said, and then I saw this post today by Dennis. Intransigent clients to blame for failed SAP projects? Continue reading “SAP Project Failures – it ain’t a binary issue”