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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

For over two decades, Infosys was considered as the bellweather for the Indian Information Technology sector and the company, despite being considerably smaller than the market leader TCS, always commanded a higher premium in the stock market. The top management at Infosys had gotten used to almost never feeling the pressure, of stakeholders or the press. So clearly the last [...]

India is the fastest growing market for SAP globally and the manufacturing sector has been a major contributor to this growth – both large enterprise and SMBs. To maintain its growth story in India, SAP is enhancing its offering for other verticals: telecom, utility, retail, banking…

The situation of the Romanian ERP market was discussed in ERP Market in Romania Still in Crisis blog post, now you can get a quick overview of the actors on the ERP market. There are players who knew better than others to take advantage of the few opportunities offered by the Romanian market, but the heterogeneity of demand and approach [...]

Although SAP has started to broaden its product portfolio, for SAP users ERP remains the core solution. ‘Every developed or acquired solution is nothing without an existing ERP’ was the key message the SAP users sent to the vendor during the annual conference of the group of German-speaking SAP users ‘Deutschsprachige SAP® Anwendergruppe’ (DSAG). Obviously the SAP users want the [...]

The monsoon may be playing hide and seek this season in India, but the Indian IT Industry is feeling the presence of clouds everywhere. SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft have come forward in unison to say that cloud services are getting hotter in India…

As we previewed in our blog post last week, SAP made a series of announcements this week in support of its stated goal to become a leading database provider by 2015. As expected, they centred on its internally developed HANA technology, and heavily leverage its Sybase acquisition, now folded into the mother ship. In the words of Steve Lucas, SAP [...]

SAP announced today that it will offer its ERP solution for SMBs, Business One, as an “on-demand” solution. The announcement follows close on the completion of its acquisition of SaaS provider SuccessFactors, and represents a further important strand in SAP’s evolving Cloud strategy. Business One OnDemand will sit alongside SAP’s Business ByDesign, which is available as a service only and [...]