Thursday, April 05, 2007
Setbacks fail to dent SAP’s ambitions - vnunet.com
Setbacks fail to dent SAP’s ambitions - vnunet.com: "But Kagermann is bullish about SAP’s prospects. He believes it can achieve double-digit growth and meet the ambitious target of increasing the number of its customers from 40,000 to 100,000 by 2010.
‘We have ambitious targets of doubling our addressable market, and we cannot do that just by going into new countries or industries, because we already have a presence in most of them,’ he told Computing.
While competitors such as Oracle are growing rapidly through acquisition, Kagermann says SAP is market leader and therefore expected to innovate.
‘We are bringing innovations to the market every year, such as the first business-critical application using service-oriented architecture (SOA),’ he said.
SOA is an increasingly popular method of software development, where open standard applications are developed independent of any platform.
‘We have been preaching the message since 2004 and the reaction we are getting from clients is that SOA is the future of software development,’ said Kagermann.
However, he is less impressed with software as a service, a distribution model where applications are hosted and made available over a network.
‘It is not solving everything,’ said Kagermann. ‘What we have seen so far is only pieces of what you need in a company. It has not been running the whole business, just a piece of it.’"
‘We have ambitious targets of doubling our addressable market, and we cannot do that just by going into new countries or industries, because we already have a presence in most of them,’ he told Computing.
While competitors such as Oracle are growing rapidly through acquisition, Kagermann says SAP is market leader and therefore expected to innovate.
‘We are bringing innovations to the market every year, such as the first business-critical application using service-oriented architecture (SOA),’ he said.
SOA is an increasingly popular method of software development, where open standard applications are developed independent of any platform.
‘We have been preaching the message since 2004 and the reaction we are getting from clients is that SOA is the future of software development,’ said Kagermann.
However, he is less impressed with software as a service, a distribution model where applications are hosted and made available over a network.
‘It is not solving everything,’ said Kagermann. ‘What we have seen so far is only pieces of what you need in a company. It has not been running the whole business, just a piece of it.’"
