The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

In very large U.S. urban areas, the average commuter spends $16 and 52 minutes traveling 32 miles round trip to work each day. For many organizations – and employees that endure long, solo commutes – it all adds up to lost productivity, wasted resources and additional expenses. (more…)

Considering that 71 percent of IT leaders see mobile as transformational[1] and that 80 percent of the Fortune 500 are already planning on implementing mobile apps[2], there is immense opportunity to build a mobile apps business with an increasingly engaged and invested customer audience. (more…)

Responsibility for the M2M/IOT solution at SAP makes Suhas Uliyar a busy man. Last week he was immersed in the buzz at the Mobile World Congress (MWC); before, he was on the road at other trade shows and conferences. (more…)

“Cities are like human beings,” SAP’s Judith Magyar wrote from Mobile World Congress Wednesday. “Each individual person, or city, is unique and special in its own way.”

So when a city has problems, the solutions provider must find what works for that particular municipality. (more…)

Today, when you buy a pair of jeans, bite into a bar of chocolate, or drink a glass of beer, the chances are that they’ve all been manufactured and supplied with the help of SAP software.  Until now, SAP software usually ran in the background and was only familiar to insiders.

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, SAP is stepping out of the shadows with a range of consumer apps that are featured at various demo stations around the SAP stand. (more…)

Enterprises have more on their plates than ever before. Technology in the marketplace continues to evolve at a record pace, and the digital transformation will produce a consumer who has — and craves — unprecedented volumes of data. (more…)

Over 87 percent of the world’s population owns a mobile phone[1], and 44 percent of the U.S. population owns a smartphone[2]. Given this proliferation of mobile devices, it’s no wonder that the demand for mobile applications for both personal and enterprise use is projected to skyrocket to approximately $52 billion by 2016[3]. (more…)

By 2014, there will be more than 70 billion mobile app downloads from app stores every year, according to Gartner. Also by 2014, a majority of companies will deliver mobile apps to workers via private app stores. Obviously, not all of these apps will be winners. So how do successful mobile app innovators balance risk and reward during this time of explosive mobile app growth? (more…)

Last week I told you about my vision of the future where alarm clocks and calendars and coffee machines all talk to each other. (more…)

One aspect of working for a global company that I don’t care for are 5 a.m. conference calls with Europe. But what’s even more frustrating is waking up to my alarm clock at 4:30 a.m. only to discover that the 5 a.m. call was cancelled overnight. (more…)