At the beginning of this week, I had a chance to visit the SAP Financial Services Summit in Den Haag that was dedicated to SAP’s partners in banking and insurance. I got a good insight into SAP’s recent accomplishments in the banking and insurance industry, which I’d like to share with you here. Recent achievements in FSI During 2012, SAP [...]

SAP HANA as a platform for the SAP Business Suite (‘Suite on HANA’) is a topic with very high relevance for both SAP users and SAP partners. In our new market insight “Evolution of ERP: SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA” we examine: The perception of SAP users and SAP partners considering “Suite on HANA” Opportunities and challenges for users [...]

Malgré le contexte économique difficile, les utilisateurs de SAP en France entendent montrer leur dynamisme et leur volonté de mettre en oeuvre les conditions du redressement. Et cela passe par l’innovation, maître mot de la journée organisée aujourd’hui par le club des utilisateurs SAP francophones (USF). Alors que l’USF avait adopté le thème du Big Data l’an passé, le thème [...]

This is the latest in a series of blogs in which PAC looks at key end user accounts and analyses the dynamics likely to drive future SITS investment. Overview: The pharmaceutical group GSK is pushing ahead with a major restructuring programme in 2013 in response to some lackluster results last year. The UK’s biggest drug maker plans a £1.5bn overhaul [...]

During my trip to CeBIT this year, I focused on meeting with SAP services partners in order to get a feeling for the temperature of the market from their perspective. The overall feedback was that they are very optimistic for 2013 and feel that the market is dynamic despite economic turbulences in some geographies. Customers are investing in their SAP-related [...]

This is the latest in a series of blogs in which PAC looks at key end user accounts and analyses the dynamics likely to drive future SITS investment. Overview: Competitive and economic headwinds are starting to bite at Vestas, the Denmark-based wind turbine manufacturer. The company relinquished its place as the sector’s top player to a resurgent GE in 2012, [...]

SAP testing will be one of the hottest areas of the €92bn global testing market in 2013, as SAP users look to speed up and improve the quality of upgrade and extension projects. We’ve looked in previous blogs at the growing challenge and cost of effectively testing SAP platforms, but further evidence of the buzz around this market came this [...]

At a local Analyst and Advisor Event in Frankfurt, Germany, TCS gave an update on its strategy and operations for the Central Europe (i.e. mostly German) region. Being the largest of the Indian IT service providers in Germany, with estimated revenues of €130m in FY 2011, the company has progressed significantly in building out its localization strategy for the German market. [...]

SAP’s announcement of the availability of SAP HANA as a database for its SAP Business Suite was not unexpected, and yet it is true that the vendor has introduced a major advance to the core system, opening up new possibilities for process innovation – what SAP refers to as ‘real-time business.’ Customers now have the option to use SAP HANA [...]

PAC spent time last week speaking with HCL’s senior management about its business and prospects, particularly in Europe. HCL is one of the biggest India-based IT services providers, but some way behind the “big four” (including Cognizant). What’s notable is that it’s taking share: the fastest growing IT service provider of Europe’s Top 30 over the last two years. Notably, [...]