The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

In this interview Oliver Bussmann speaks to Tim Bajarin about everything mobile, including BYOD, iPad deployment and why SAP is device agnostic. Read the article in full here.

Eric Lai’s latest ZDNet blog shares fascinating insights from the recent Consumer Electronics Shows in Las Vegas, including a not to be missed video from SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann.

“Bussmann, as readers of this blog already know, is no ordinary enterprise CIO. He’s deployed 14,000 iPads and 8,000 iPhones to SAP employees, launched a global Bring Your Own Device program and created a self-service, internal Enterprise App Store with dozens of apps. Bussmann is also pushing ahead on Android device deployments, and is building a more secure alternative to DropBox for employees to use.

In the following video, Bussmann gives his quick take on five technologies and trends he saw on display at CES this year, along with what their impact could be for businesses like SAP’s (my parent company happens to be one of the 70 largest public corporations in the world).”

Click here to read Eric’s post in full.

Oliver Bussmann talks iPad deployments with SearchConsumerization.com’s Colin Steele and ConsumerizeIT.com’s Jack Madden. Recorded at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics event in Las Vegas. Click here to view the video.

What was SAP, a company focused on business software, doing at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week in Las Vegas? In this post, Pat Tupper shares some insight from the show floor.

SAP’s participation at CES proves that the boundaries between consumer and enterprise have been crossed. Erased even. Forget about the consumerization of IT — the line between consumer technology and business technology has disappeared for good. (more…)

The expectation on the business side for faster implementations to get instant value from SAP systems is going up significantly. With it, the pressure on the IT teams to meet those business needs by implementing SAP solutions is also increasing. There is a perfect solution from my perspective which are called SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions. The rapid-deployment solutions combine SAP software, fixed price services, pre configuration and very powerful implementation accelerators. Together, they are designed to lower the risk of business management implementations against missed expectations for cost, implementation time, business results, and “future proofing” the business against technology obsolescence. (more…)

Take a look at this postcard clip to see how Oliver Bussmann uses business intelligence and mobile applications to run his business on a daily basis (duration 4:30 minutes).

On the drive to work this morning I was trying to forget how miserable the weather was in Walldorf and at the same time trying to think of a great opening line for the 2011 review blog. I need not have bothered, my buddy Eric Lai posted a great review for Forbes this morning. It feels like the sun is shining in Walldorf now. Thank you Eric. (more…)