Just as soon as I came back from lunch , I heard about both news items from SAP and Oracle . Here are my views – strictly personal opinions as always , and has nothing to do with present or past employers . SAP buying Concur is a pretty good move in my opinion. As…
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Social Media In Marketing – Is It Too Much To Ask For Peaceful Co-existance?
While I have no claims at all to be a social media expert – I am an avid user of social media, especially twitter, Facebook and my blogs on SCN and WordPress. All of this week, I have been on vacation in the island of Hawaii – and although I kept away from work email…
Will SAP be completely Hardware Agnostic in future? I am betting it won’t be.
Josh Greenbaum posted this blog making a case for HW independence for SAP. http://insiderprofiles.wispubs.com/article.aspx?iArticleId=6265 . Josh needs no introduction, and I am a huge fan of the guy. But on this topic, I respectfully disagree with him. I do agree with Josh in that the Apple analogy is not exactly applicable to keep HW…
Rapid Implementation – is the promised land finally here ?
Mike Krigsman posted this today morning on his ZDNET blog http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/predicting-2012-rapid-implementation-in-focus/ . I tried to post a comment, but somehow that does not seem to have posted. So I thought of posting it here. I am not entirely convinced that Rapid Deployments will bring terrific benefits, but will be watching it closely in 2012. …
SAP HANA vs ORACLE Exalytics – My initial thoughts
I was in Dallas this week for some training, when ORACLE announced Exalytics. Here are my initial thoughts for whatever they are worth. 1. In terms of vision – I think SAP scores. SAP has clearly articulated how HANA will evolve, and they have stuck to their guns. ORCL roadmap for exalytics is not exactly…
