The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

As more and more small and midsize businesses (SMBs) face the growing business usage of mobile devices, many find they don’t have the IT resources or capital budget to support it.  This post looks at those challenges and explores (more…)

Recently, I have been posting a series of blogs taking a deeper dive into some of the data presented in an infographic that I collaborated with SAP to produce. The infographic titled “So, What’s Stopping You From Using ERP?” (more…)

The growing use of mobile devices — specifically smartphones and tablets — is having a major impact on the ways that people interact with the environment, with employers, and with each other. “Anytime, anywhere” access to voice communication was made possible by cellphones, and now (more…)

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Thanks to the wild popularity of smartphones such as iPhone and Blackberry, tablets such as iPad, and the apps that work with it, we have become the mobile generation, increasing using mobile devices for accessing the information we consume in our daily lives.   Market research supports this shift – according to a recent report by Gartner, worldwide smartphone shipments in Q2, 2011 grew by 74% over the same quarter last year to 107 million units.  (more…)

Recently I had the opportunity to speak with SAP’s Senior VP of Mobile Strategies, Nick Brown to get a preview of the “mobility” announcements planned for SAPPHIRENOW + SAPTechEd, co-located in Madrid this week. As anyone that follows SAP knows, mobility is one of its three hottest topics, the other two being cloud and in-memory computing. Since May 2010 when SAP announced its intended acquisition of Sybase, the mobility buzz has been about an integrated platform and application story. (more…)

As the name implies, SAP TechEd offers technical education, such as hands-on workshops, deep-dive lectures and sessions with SAP technical experts about all things SAP. That said, TechEd isn’t for everyone, and it’s no wonder that most of the 6,500+ attendees at SAP TechEd 2011, held the week of September 12 in Las Vegas, were SAP partners and technology specialists from the vendor’s large enterprise accounts. (more…)

Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) that are looking to update from Quickbooks to an ERP systems – take note. Mobility-enabled ERP should be at the top of your requirements list. Sounds too newfangled? You’re just looking to move to a full-fledged ERP system but not looking for all the bells and whistles? That’s the wrong way to look at it.  As a SMB company, your chief concern is driving growth – expanding your business, scaling to new locations, and adding new divisions.  Well, that is the reason to evaluate an ERP (more…)