THE BIG SWITCH is on for the Enterprise, SAP really just doesn’t have a focus

The market buzz around SAP seems to be at an all-time high. Their ERP solution roadmaps seem to be at an all-time crossroads.  So (as Naomi Bloom says), in which direction lies the “The Yellow Brick Road”.
According to Gartner and ERP analysts Naomi Boom, Ray Wang, Phil Wainwright, Nick Carr, and everyone else….the Yellow Brick Road now ends at “The Cloud”.

Switching to SAP? , You know they have a new emphasis on The Cloud.  But, did you know what SAP stands for according to their website…(stands for "Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing).   

SAP has more platforms and products in the ERP space than anyone could fathom.  Its Career OnDemand cloud offering, due to be released in 04/2012 is probably dead with the Success Factors purchase.  The SFSF purchase was really a way to keep clients from defecting to a competitor’s Best of Breed Talent platform.  Their Employee Central HCM is probably dead now; it’s just not deep enough.

The analysts explain SAP’s roadmap this way: “You cannot buy your way into The Cloud; you need to re-invent yourself completely or throw everything away and build it from scratch!”

Do you know what SAP stands for: (S)aaS not, (A)pplication spaghetti, (P)latforms galore.

So, The Big Switch is on.  Cloud computing today is what the distributed power grid of the past was for the Industrial Revolution.  The distributed Internet grid powers The Cloud today.  Consumers are moving into the cloud.  Enterprises are moving to cloud, it’s all about the freedom to do what you need to do, when you need to do it.

This is all about The Big Switch.  Read a synopsis of Nicholas Carr’s book, The Big Switch on my blog.
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Is your software tool a true SaaS or a 1/2 Saas?

Here is a great article that talks about software applications that claim to be a Software as a Service delivery model...when in fact, they are really an on-demand ASP hosted model. Kind of hard to tell from a layman's perspective, but from a technical level, it's black and white.
Do you have only one version?
Do you have all of your customer on the most current and only version of your product?
Do you provide quarterly upgrades that are delivered seamlessly to customers?
Do you have a unique database for each customer so that they can monitor their own security roles and permissions?
and on and on. If they say it's On-demand...then demand to understand if it is truly a SaaS solution!
read it here at:

http://www.shrm.org/Publications/hrmagazine/Pages/default.aspx

Advantages of Software as a Service over ASP

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