It’s a cold day in hell pretty rare when a large company invites bloggers to sit in on (and actively participate in) a real working...

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How cool is this? October 1, Vegas. We’ll also be doing something in Munich a couple of weeks later. I got a brilliant email the other day ...

Continue Reading SAP Community Day: The RedMonk Track

I was surprised by one thing at the Bob Muglia keynote this morning: where was the audience enthusiasm? The content was pretty solid, but th...

Continue Reading TechEd 2007: Where we at?

Last week after getting back from SAP’s Sapphire 2007 conference in Vienna I had to complete some work on a book project, which ...

Continue Reading SAP Grocks Governance Risk and Compliance: the new ERP

Its been a long time since IBM was so dominant in a market. According to Wintergreen Research IBM has an eye-popping 53% of the SOA tools market. I don’t know about Wintergreen̵...

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David Berlind has been kind enough to ask me to do a regular show with him here. Given how hard it is to find myself in one place these days ...

Continue Reading ZDNet MonkCast: On Sun, Open Source, SAP A1S, and EMI

Met the Quiet Man today. Chap standing between me and Dennis. He is a straight talker. Very polite and insightful. Michael Prosceno is helping to change the SAP culture, and...

Continue Reading Henning Kagermann, SAP CEO, meets the bloggers

Some of us on Twitter were playing with M&A scenarios-this was one. ...

Continue Reading What about AAPL buying ADBE and selling the Enterprise Business Unit to SAP

A hot topic among social media bloggers these days is exactly which big companies “get” the value of connectedness, community an...

Continue Reading SAP to Enterprise 2.0 Community: We Get It

I had lunch with Thomas Otter earlier this week. We didn’t even get drunk, and we paid our own expenses. But one point of note- the Sance...

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