Five Things About SAP's Strategy That You Need to Know


	Five Things About SAP's Strategy That You Need to Know

esundby

7-18-2008 5:31 PM

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esundby says:

It is interesting how SAP generally stays below the IT news radar. Their recent legal issues with Oracle not-withstanding, not much newsworthy really ever comes out about SAP. This is a great read for just that reason as it sums up some important things about SAP's strategy.

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						  			  		  <A href="http://www.cio.com/article/40323/ABC_An_Introduction_to_ERP">Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems</A> are a career-defining decision for many IT executives. And yet, says an expert who follows SAP and its base of corporate customers, many of those executives don’t pay enough attention to the German software giant’s strategy for updating these bet-your-business applications. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cio.com/article/359113/Five_Things_About_SAP_s_Strategy_That_You_Need_to_Know?contentId=359113&slug=&"><P>But here's the thing: They should be.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cio.com/article/359113/Five_Things_About_SAP_s_Strategy_That_You_Need_to_Know?contentId=359113&slug=&"><P>As AMR senior vice president of research Jim Shepherd describes in a <A target="_blank" href="http://www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=21364">report</A> from earlier this year, "The Five SAP Strategies That You Need To Understand," few companies buy SAP for best-of-breed or one-off applications. More than likely, these companies (and the CEO, CFO and CIO who sign off on what is typically a multimillion-dollar contract with SAP) have "bought into the idea of deploying a broad, single vendor business suite," Shepherd writes. (For the latest on SAP, see <A href="http://www.cio.com/article/349763">"News and Views from SAP's Sapphire Show and User Conference 2008."</A>) </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3FB3FA87-6D10-471F-B6F9-4DD5D7541BF6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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