Monday, January 08, 2007
MercuryNews.com | 01/07/2007 | SAP exec grows up with firm
MercuryNews.com 01/07/2007 SAP exec grows up with firm: "Bidding on Retek ``was an admission on their part that you really have to not only acquire unique functionality, but acquire the domain expertise that comes with it. You can't find it and you can't hire it quickly enough,'' said Jim Schaper, chief executive of Infor, an Alpharetta, Ga., company that has quietly acquired its way into third place in the application software market.
Though SAP does at times buy companies, its growth strategy is more like that of Microsoft: pour money into research and development, evangelize your software until it's the platform for everyone else's programs and rely on partners to fill in the gaps. The strategy has led to 26 new products launched in 2006. "
Though SAP does at times buy companies, its growth strategy is more like that of Microsoft: pour money into research and development, evangelize your software until it's the platform for everyone else's programs and rely on partners to fill in the gaps. The strategy has led to 26 new products launched in 2006. "
