The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

We’re all familiar with the power of corporate social sites to constantly monitor customer conversations. Armed with likes and dislikes, companies can develop better products faster, execute more targeted marketing campaigns, and manage crises quickly to save potentially millions of dollars. (more…)

Christchurch, New Zealand is rebuilding after a devastating earthquake two years ago and recovering from the global financial crisis — and it could be losing more than US$1.2 billion to fraud. (more…)

Six years ago, the term Enterprise 2.0 emerged, laying the groundwork for new approaches to connect workers and information across enterprises. (more…)

I previously discussed how my daughters’ spending was out of control and how that compared to some distributors I have worked with whose spending was also out of control. (more…)

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

Today SAP responded to our customers’ advanced analytics needs and ability to derive value from big data with the introduction of a new predictive analytics solution from SAP. (more…)

Despite weeks of daily tests to the ensure company’s systems could handle its own Initial Public Offering, BATS Global Markets promptly noticed that they had a problem last Friday. (more…)

If I could sum up “success” in the consumer packaged goods, or CPG, industry in one word, that word would be SPEED — the speed at which the best companies take advantage of the latest consumer trends and defend their market share against the competition. (more…)

This week, we took another important step in accelerating our social enterprise strategy with the hiring of social computing and technology expert Sameer Patel as global vice president, Enterprise Social Software. Sameer will lead the solutions and go-to-market for collaboration and social software from SAP. (more…)

While you won’t see “ETL” in headlines the way you see “big data” or “cloud,” ETL plays a key role in helping organizations take advantage of these technology trends. In fact, according to “The Forrester Wave:  Enterprise ETL, Q1 2012” report, the market for ETL is growing more than ever. (more…)