Tuesday, February 21, 2006
� SAP's gridless on-demand model | Software as services | ZDNet.com
� SAP's gridless on-demand model Software as services ZDNet.com: "SAP has done its on-demand rivals two great favors today. Not only has it endorsed the on-demand model, it has simultaneously flunked it.
I had been hoping SAP would confound its critics and come up with something daring and innovative in today's launch of its on-demand CRM offering. But the best it could do was 'isolated tenancy'. Not good enough, I'm afraid.
It would be OK if SAP's kindergarten-classIt's all a load of old SoSaaS analysis of where other on-demand models stand today bore any relationship to reality. But like any vendor that doesn't have a proper answer to its competition, the true purpose of SAP's slideware is to make its proposition "
I had been hoping SAP would confound its critics and come up with something daring and innovative in today's launch of its on-demand CRM offering. But the best it could do was 'isolated tenancy'. Not good enough, I'm afraid.
It would be OK if SAP's kindergarten-classIt's all a load of old SoSaaS analysis of where other on-demand models stand today bore any relationship to reality. But like any vendor that doesn't have a proper answer to its competition, the true purpose of SAP's slideware is to make its proposition "
