Monday, December 11, 2006
Brief: SAP Charts Plan To Triple Its Customer Base - Industries News by InformationWeek
Brief: SAP Charts Plan To Triple Its Customer Base - Industries News by InformationWeek: "Every vendor's chasing the midmarket--Oracle's already big there, Microsoft is making a push with its Dynamics apps, and smaller vendors are entrenched with their vertical industry offerings. And there are wild cards like Workday, the startup by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield that pitches ERP as a hosted service. While CRM On Demand is SAP's only software-as-a-service offering, it said last week it's mulling such a model for its midmarket product. Reaching that market will take a new sales approach--SAP execs expect 60% of deals in the future will be closed by resellers, compared with just 15% today.
Like other vendors, SAP promises simplicity. Its mySAP 2005 runs on the NetWeaver platform, based on a service-oriented architecture. SAP says it won't upgrade mySAP until 2010, instead offering 'enhancement packages' from which customers can add features without changing the core system"
Like other vendors, SAP promises simplicity. Its mySAP 2005 runs on the NetWeaver platform, based on a service-oriented architecture. SAP says it won't upgrade mySAP until 2010, instead offering 'enhancement packages' from which customers can add features without changing the core system"
