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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

German HQ’d SI T-Systems has had considerable success with its Dynamic Services for SAP Applications over the last few years – but largely to German firms. A new €160m contract with BAT will help its push to become a truly global hosting supplier. The slightly cumbersome product name encompasses a hosted implementation of SAP together with applications management, integration and [...]

When SAP bought Sybase back in 2010, it appeared that the main target was its mobility software. Sybase’s core and original business – database – was widely perceived as a ‘nice to have.’ It was making money and it had some very loyal customers – and a good position in financial services, a vertical SAP is targeting for growth. But the [...]

PAC research indicates that for an average software development project, some 20% of effort is spent on testing. In an SAP environment, however, a project will revolve around extensions to and configuration of the SAP system. Here, testing takes on a higher percentage of the overall project – probably in excess of 30%. In an upgrade project where no new [...]

“Standardization at the Back – Differentiation at the Front” is the key element of Wipro’s strategy for continental Europe that has been revealed at its annual analyst event in Rome. The central theme of the event was Wipro’s business transformation process which they are currently going through…

SAP just faced a stiff challenge, with its last week SAPPHIRE in Madrid: how to galvanize a huge user conference when you have basically nothing new to announce. It went pretty well, though. By communicating heavily around the four strategic areas it is focusing on and (importantly) actually delivering, SAP provided a nice picture. The four areas are: the core [...]

At its Analyst and Advisor Event on October 6, 2011 in Duesseldorf, India-based IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services (‘TCS’) outlined its business development strategy for Central Europe (i.e. the DACH region). Part of the global industrial giant Tata Group and with annual revenues of USD8.1bn in 2010, TCS ranks among the Top 15 IT services players globally. With average [...]

A New Channel into the Chinese Market, and an Early Glimpse at Partner Hosting for Business ByDesign – On the first day of SAP’s annual Sapphire conference, SAP announced a strategic partnership with China Telecom, the largest telecom provider in the world by subscriber size, to host SAP’s SaaS ERP solution, SAP Business ByDesign.