The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

“We can rebuild him,” begins the old television series The Six Million Dollar Man. “We have the technology.” (more…)

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Isaac Newton’s Third Law of [Physical] Motion turns out to perfectly describe the how Tech Audiences Think. (more…)

When the iPad 2 was announced, I wrote that Apple‘s tablet would continue its enterprise invasion despite the dearth of overtly business-focused features.The same goes for the new iPad, or what I like to call in homage to Pulp Fiction, ‘Le iPad Nouveau.’ (more…)

The days of PCs moseying their way from CEO to office worker to mailboy over a long decade are, thankfully, long gone. Today’s mobile devices take a lot more abuse from employees (though there are always surprising exceptions).  (more…)

SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott recently appeared on the top-rated CNBC show, “Mad Money” with Jim Cramer. McDermott focused on SAP’s commitment to mobility, cloud, and real-time analytics, and provided a live demonstration of SAP software via an iPad. Watch the interview:  (more…)

Today’s WSJ had a fascinating article about one-hit wonder products like the Baby on Board sign and, more recently, Silly Bandz. That got me thinking: have the past three months proven that the iPad is no one-hit wonder? Why, yes, I do believe they have. There’s the 25 million iPads sold in 14 months, the huge pent-up demand for the iPad 2 and Apple’s continued domination over the PlayBook, Xoom and Galaxy Tab.

However, consumers are fickle. Tastes change, fads fade. In one year, couldn’t the tablet market look completely different? (more…)

Samsung’s new Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet won’t be widely available in the U.S. until June 17, but SAP AG CIO Oliver Bussmann can hardly wait.

“I’m putting a lot of pressure on my own folks to have some Samsung devices out [among employees] in the next 4-6 weeks,” Bussmann said in an interview last week.

(Note: this is the first in a planned series of monthly interviews I’ll be doing with Bussmann on SAP’s internal use of mobility and its overall IT transformation. Subscribe to UberMobile’s feed or follow me on Twitter @ericylai in order not to miss any updates.) (more…)

Speaking from SAPPHIRE NOW, Jason Rose of BI Solution Marketing at SAP has a few words to say about the business intelligence (BI) solutions that SAP released in February – and why these solutions will become exponentially more mobile in the next couple of months. (more…)

SAP AG has long led three huge markets for enterprise applications: ERP, CRM and business intelligence. At SAPPHIRE NOW on Monday, SAP executives confirmed the firm’s naked ambition to take over the small-but-ready-to-explode market for enterprise mobile apps. (more…)

SAP bought Sybase last year just weeks before SAPPHIRE NOW, so there was no time to bring a major mobile presence to the show. This year will be different, with SAPPHIRE NOW’s first-ever mobility campus.

That’s where I’ll be roaming around next week, blogging, tweeting (@ericylai) and even shooting a video or two. Here are a few things that I definitely plan to catch: (more…)