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Volume 4 - Issue 20
5/25/2010
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SAP Sapphire: On Message All the Time
By Brian Kilcourse, Managing Partner
Colin Powell, the retired U.S. Army General and former U.S. Secretary of State - and one of Sapphire 2010‘s keynote speakers, is quoted as saying, “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.” That bit of wisdom is certainly appropriate to this year’s SAP/ASUG Sapphire conference, which was held simultaneously in Frankfurt, Germany and Orlando, Florida (with lots of simulcasting in between).
Although there was plenty of product-oriented buzz at the event (including the Sybase acquisition... Read more
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Sapphire Now: Takeaways for Retailers
By Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner
SAP is a huge technology company, with a presence across virtually every industry on the planet. So Sapphire Now, its annual event, is quite a large and varied affair. I’ve taken some time to distil what I saw and heard into takeaways for retailers. For convenience, I’m using a question and answer format to make those points.
Is retail still a core industry for SAP?... Read more
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IBM and Sterling: It's Not Just Middleware
By Nikki Baird, Managing Partner
Yesterday, IBM announced definitive plans to acquire Sterling Commerce. As with all such announcements, while there is a great weight placed on the event, there really isn't a whole lot to say - not many details to share. IBM and Sterling shared their rationale for the deal, and it's sound, of course.
IBM's middleware solutions in WebSphere Commerce are... Read more
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