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Disrupting the IT Services market: Consultancy 2.0
Some time ago I had dinner with SAP co-CEO Jim Snabe. Jim is a bright and talented individual and one of the topics we got into was the setting of unreasonable boundary conditions as a mechanism to get the best … Continue reading
Posted in People, Process, Technology
Tagged accenture, cloud, consultancy, consultancy 2.0, consulting, disrupt, ibm, it services, jim snabe, sap, vishal sikka
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The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 5, SAP HANA BW Consultant
Hopefully you have enjoyed the SAP HANA Career Guide so far. This piece focusses in on the SAP HANA BW Consultant. These guys are responsible for upgrading, migrating and HANA-enabling existing information on the SAP BW Enterprise Data Warehouse, as well … Continue reading
The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 4, SAP HANA Operations Consultant
Hopefully you have enjoyed the SAP HANA Career Guide so far. This piece focusses in on the SAP HANA Operations Consultant – which would have been called SAP Basis for regular SAP systems. I’ve always hated this term, and thought it … Continue reading
Posted in Education, HANA
Tagged basis, career, careers, education, enterprise, hana, hana operations, jobs, sap, sap hana
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The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 3, SAP HANA Performance Consultant
Hopefully you have enjoyed the SAP HANA Career Guide so far. This piece focusses in on the SAP HANA Performance Consultant. In the early implementations of SAP HANA, this was by far the most popular type of resource. SAP HANA … Continue reading
The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 2, SAP HANA Business Consultant
Hopefully you have enjoyed the SAP HANA Career Guide so far, which kicked off with Part 1, Overview. This piece focusses in on the first specialty: the business consultant. The Business Consultant Business consultants analyse the needs of the business … Continue reading
Posted in HANA, People
Tagged business consulting, career, careers, consultant, consulting, in-memory, job, sap, sap hana
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The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 1, Overview
SAP HANA is one of the fastest growing software technologies ever. It was released mid-2011 and sold $250m in the first year. In 2012, financial analysts expect $500m+ and it is expected to be a $1bn+ market in 2013. In … Continue reading
Posted in HANA, People
Tagged career, careers, consultant, consulting, in-memory, job, sap, sap hana
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Why the HP Superdome is as dead as a dodo
I had a slightly uncomfortable conversation with one of my sales people this week, who told me that one of their customers had just bought a brand new HP Superdome2 and wanted to know if our software would run SAP … Continue reading
Why does the tech community hate Enterprise IT?
I have a serious case of writers block, and a more serious case of insomnia. I wrote an blog on Tuesday entitled Why TechCrunch is boring, SAP is not, and the world has gone mad, and it went viral. I … Continue reading
Why TechCrunch is boring, SAP is not, and the world has gone mad
It’s cold by the way. Winter finally arrived, I realised as I pondered SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors on the run into work. I can still feel the cold imbued from the run into the metal palmrest of my laptop as I write … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, People, Process, Technology
Tagged acquisition, apple, facebook, google, sap, successfactors
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SAP acquires SuccessFactors – is it all hot air in the cloud?
This time last year I was on a flight to Santa Clara, where SAP was hosting its Influencer Summit. It’s a shindig where SAP communicates and listens to a group of analysts and influencers and last year, there was a … Continue reading
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