Tuesday, February 07, 2006
SAP's entry muddles the hosted market
SAP's entry muddles the hosted market: "Yet, DuPont is keeping its Salesforce.com seats as well, Michlovich said, citing the application's ease of use and the support it has received from the group using it. Adding SAP's on-demand application provides the benefit of a common data model with the back office applications plus the possibility of a hybrid deployment using both on-premise and on-demand together in the future. Michlovich said the company would make a business decision on whether to extend to a hybrid model in the future.
The hybrid option is an advantage SAP officials stressed continuously at yesterday's event. The hybrid deployment model was one Siebel continuously championed when it rolled out its hosted application Siebel OnDemand in 2003. Siebel has some customers who have begun using on-premise and on-demand together, but the two are not fully integrated. Siebel was formally acquired by Oracle on Tuesday.
'Right now, the company [SAP's new offering] will affect the most is Oracle,' said Liz Herbert, analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. 'We still haven't seen Siebel OnDemand and on-premise merge and there's still the integration with Oracle left to go.' "
The hybrid option is an advantage SAP officials stressed continuously at yesterday's event. The hybrid deployment model was one Siebel continuously championed when it rolled out its hosted application Siebel OnDemand in 2003. Siebel has some customers who have begun using on-premise and on-demand together, but the two are not fully integrated. Siebel was formally acquired by Oracle on Tuesday.
'Right now, the company [SAP's new offering] will affect the most is Oracle,' said Liz Herbert, analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. 'We still haven't seen Siebel OnDemand and on-premise merge and there's still the integration with Oracle left to go.' "
