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SAP Business ByDesign: a developer take

October 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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If you are a potential SAP customer, partner or developer then this post should be of interest. It is a tad technical but I will try and avoid too much jargon in order to make the points clear. That shouldn’t be overly difficult because while I can write code, I would not class myself as [...]

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Sage hikes Accountants' Club fees, shoots self in face

September 29, 2010 General
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While the trend in software is for flat or reduced cost, Sage thinks it can buck the market by increasing Accountant Club fees. From AccountingWeb’s Any Answers: Sage have just increased my accountants club from £645 to £800. What a cheek. They say I am getting lots of extra benefits – but I don’t want [...]

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Innovation in the CFO's office

August 25, 2010 Innovation

While I tend to concentrate on professional services firms a couple of questions were raised this week that got me thinking. The last two days I’ve been out in Silicon Valley in analyst briefings with Workday and SAP Labs. Workday is noodling over and endeavouring to redefine the meaning of work. One of its trains [...]

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Sexy SAP? Surely not!!

July 28, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I get a regular stream of people telling me they are looking for a SaaS/cloud upgrade to Sage Line 50. They’re ready to move on and don’t see the remainder of the Sage line of products as particularly appealing. They’ve usually found out something about this ‘cloud stuff’ and are curious to know more. This [...]

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Sage's new Le Boss: a safe pair of hands or shades of SAP past?

July 23, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Apologies for being so late on the news. I took a wee vacation and switched (just about) anything to do with the Internet off. So – the rumours turned out to be true. Guy Berruyer, a 59 year old in-house exec takes over from Paul Walker on 1st September. As I read through the FT [...]

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Facebook privacy issues. Where to for professionals?

May 24, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Having been buried in enterprise land the last couple of weeks, I’ve not been taking notice of the gathering storm around Facebook privacy. The last time I wrote about it, I said: Facebook’s increasingly bizarre notion of privacy coupled with the most recent security breach are forcing a number of my colleagues to rethink their [...]

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Is SAP Business ByDesign affordable and would you choose it anyway?

May 24, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

SAP has a reputation for being expensive. Even at $149/user/month for a minimum of 25 users Business ByDesign still weighs in at $44,700 per annum or £30,900 (give or take) at today’s exchange rate. That still sounds like a lot until you hear that SAP is prepared to go down to 10 users. At this [...]

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What should SAP do about Business ByDesign?

May 20, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Now that Business ByDesign is available for general purchase readers will be hearing a lot more from me about this SME solution. It is an extremely important addition to the applications landscape and should be of interest to any practitioner with clients considering an upgrade from existing on-premise applications, clients that are expanding and/or need [...]

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SAP Business ByDesign limps into general availiability

May 18, 2010 Marketing

After what seems an eternity in the gestation, SAP has released Business ByDesign, its cloud ERP offering, into general availability. First launched in late 2007, BYD has gone through a number of iterations as first the company discovered the way it had been designed was not capable of scaling economically. Subsequently, SAP found that the [...]

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