The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

“Speed alone is of little value if you’re headed the wrong way,” SAP’s Lars Dalgaard said in his Wired blog post Wednesday. “The combination of direction and speed is critical as companies extend and evolve their current IT systems and lines of business applications for the 21st century workplace.” (more…)

As SAP increases its commitment to the startup community, it is also more than doubling its capital commitment to the SAP HANA Real Time Fund – from an original 2012 commitment of $155 million to $405 million – to further support entrepreneurs and startups worldwide as they build their businesses on SAP platform technologies, including SAP HANA. (more…)

After a whirlwind of information from SAP executives and customers yesterday (see my recap of Day 1), today was another action-packed day of keynotes, announcements, stories, and insights from every corner of SAPPHIRE NOW. (more…)

“Financial Services is the No. 1 industry in SAP,” the company’s managing board member Robert Enslin said Wednesday. “And it’s the fastest growing.” (more…)

Think Lexmark is just printers? Think again. The company broadened its offerings in a major way to face very radical changes taking place within the printing industry. So what does the Lexmark business model look like today? (more…)

In another first for SAP’s annual conference, SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando hosted its first-ever volunteer event. (more…)

Greetings from sunny Orlando! I’ve just spent a glorious first day at the SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference and wanted to share some of the experience. (more…)

The new normal is no longer new in finance, according to SAP’s Martin Narachewski. The years since the economic crisis introduced omnipresent volatility, increased focus on risk, constantly changing regulatory requirements and other hardships that have become facts of life. (more…)

Is American manufacturing dead? Has the good ‘ol US of A become a land full of pencil pushers and burger-flippers? These questions continue to haunt many different industries and businesses in this age of outsourcing. (more…)

How do you feed 12,500 people over three days? That’s one of many logistical problems that SAP and its partners will solve in Orlando from Tuesday to Thursday at its annual conference, SAPPHIRE NOW. (more…)