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Apps Users Seek Third Party Maintenance For Cost, Value, and Service
Updated surveys from inquiries, client conversations, and user group meetings show a 113.8% increase in interest in third party maintenance (3PM) services from Q3 2009 to Q1 2010 (see Figure 1). Key factors stem from (see Figure 2.):
Continuing cost pressures. Budgets continue to be at [...]
I’ve had considerable time to catch up on reading this holiday season. Traditionally, it’s a time for predictions, resolutions, and reflections. But as we close out the last decade, I couldn’t help but dwell on economist Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed from December 27th titled “The Big Zero”. He brings up good points that it’s been an [...]
DSAG project team and project leader departure could signal disagreement with methodology not SUGEN
SAP embarked on an ambitious program to prove value in its Enterprise Support fee hike last year. As planned, SAP should announce the results for the first set of SUGEN KPI’s in early December. However, two key SUGEN KPI project sponsors [...]
Potential Announcement of * Siemens cancellation represents a shift in mood by one of SAP’s most loyal customers
What’s been rumored for the past few months has now publicly been confirmed discussed. Golem.de (Babelfish Translation in English) *Wiwo.de,(Wirtschaftswoche the German equivalent of BusinessWeek) (Babelfish Translation in English) reports that Siemens says SAP Tschüß (i.e. ciao, cheers, [...]
Labor Day (US Holiday) traditionally marks the end of summer BBQ’s, the beginning of the fall conference season, and yes, the time to begin a review of your software maintenance contacts that expire end of year. As clients prepare for this seasonal ritual, a few trends in 2009 should set the stage for negotiations:
Continued [...]
In the first step of the original seven simple steps to successfully negotiate software contracts, the key is to have the right team in place. To refresh everyone’s memory from the March 8th, 2004 post the details for Step 1 are:
Step 1: Ensure that the right team is in place
Inputs: Organizational chart and agreement on [...]
Declining demand and diminishing output increase the pressure for enterprises to reduce their software license maintenance costs. As part of a larger enterprise apps strategy, shelfware reduction provides an area for significant cost savings. However, shelfware reduction is often hard to achieve because many vendors impose:
Enterprise wide agreements. These “all you can eat” agreements incentivize [...]
On-premise vendors still see SaaS as a loss leader due to huge ramp up and punishing revenue recognition rules
When it comes to the topic of SaaS, many on-premise vendors appear to be living in denial, hoping that SaaS fails, and/or creating confusion in the market place. These tactics have merit as a shift to SaaS [...]
In the past 2 weeks, emails from 31 software insider readers highlight a growing and concerning trend with support and maintenance contracts. Vendors concerns about support and maintenance contract retentions has led to new initiatives to consolidate contracts. At first glance, this may appear to be proactive and beneficial to customers. In fact, common rationale [...]
Pivot points represent a market segmentation approach used by many companies to determine market demand, define new products, assign sales territories, service customers, and put boundaries around customer sets. Since September 2009, over 500 enterprise software decision makers were asked which one pivot point would they prefer their software vendor focus on. The four key [...]
Enterprises continue to transform themselves from the functional fiefdoms of the past and move towards a business process orientation. As organizations begin that process of documenting business processes, they must differentiate among the 3 major types of business processes. In key flows such as order to cash, hire to retire, incident to resolution, procure to [...]
With 2009 rapidly becoming the “Year of SaaS” and the tipping point for Cloud Computing, it’s hard not to notice the growing number of SaaS start ups (along with the legacy application vendors rushing to provide an “On-Demand”, but not really multi-tenant deployment option). My snarky SaaS bigotry aside, we can expect hybrid deployment options [...]
(Photo: Rimini Street movable billboard outside SAPPHIRE 09. Courtesy of Rimini Street. All rights reserved)
Almost one year after Rimini Street announced its intention to provide third party maintenance, on May 11th, 2009, the ground breaking support services provider announced that it had signed its first SAP clients and launched immediate availability of its support [...]
More details have emerged on the actual 10 or 11 KPI’s that SUGEN and SAP have agreed to as well as the SAP’s targets for showing value. To start with, here are the main KPI’s for each category:
SUGEN KPI’S
Business Continuity
Increased business solution availability
Reduced amount of work related to all SAP incidents (including reduced [...]
Since SAP’s announcement of its single tier Enterprise Support plan last July, customers have continued to express dissatisfaction. In response to such complaints, the SAP User Group Executive Network (SUGEN) of 12 SAP user groups and SAP have been engaging in discussions around the value derived from this new offering. This morning SAP [...]
ZDNet Japan Business Applications Conference
Bellesalle Yaesu, Tokyo, Japan
June 10, 2008 13:00-18:00
R “Ray” Wang
Keynote Speech: Insights Into Building A Recession Proof Apps Strategy
ZDNet Japan ビジネス・アプリケーション カンファレンス
不況だからって、アプリケーションを止められますか?
いうまでもなく、不況です。不況はITコストの削減を生みます。しかし、いまや、ITは止められないばかりか、進化を続けなければなりません。
企業は情報システムへの投資をこれまで通り続けられない状況にあります。こうした状況においてこそ、情報システムを真剣に考え直すべきです。本イベントでは、そのなかでも、最もビジネスに近い層であるビジネスアプリケーションについて議論します。
小さく導入したアプリケーションを統制・連携するためのアーキテクチャーとしてはSOA、ビジネスの効率化をITに実装するためのBPM、所有から使用への新たな選択肢として脚光を浴びるSaaS…… 不況下でも企業が情報システムにできることはたくさんあるのです。
» 来場事前登録はこちら
開催概要
名称
ZDNet Japan ビジネス・アプリケーション カンファレンス
開催日時
2009年6月10日(水) 12:30開場 13:00開演
場所
ベルサール八重洲 [会場について]
参加費
無料(事前登録制)
定員
300人
対象
CIO(情報に関する資源の統括、戦略立案、実行する責任者の方)/IT部門のマネージャ/業務でERP、CRM等アプリケーションに携わる方
特典
「来場者アンケート」にご回答いただいた方にQuoカードをプレゼントいたします。
また、抽選で200名の方に「日経コンピュータ」を6ヶ月分プレゼントいたします。
セッション一覧
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基調講演
■不況に打ち勝つアプリケーション戦略を構築するための秘訣
ア プリケーション担当者は現在、新しいビジネスモデルの台頭、経済危機、労働力の変化、技術の進歩などのさまざまな変化に日々直面しています。特に、今日の 世界的な経済不況下においては、より企業のビジネス戦略に沿ったアプリケーション戦略を構築することが求められています。コンプライアンスや業務の効率化 は常に考えなければならない事項ですが、それだけでなく、企業が持続可能な変化を実現するためには、不況に打ち勝つことができるアプリケーション戦略が必 要です。今こそ、ビジネスプロセスをより効率化する機会を探し、最も効果的なテクノロジー戦略を選択し、ベンダーとの関係を見直す必要があります。今回の 講演では、アプリケーション担当者が今行うべきこと、つまり現在のアプリケーション戦略を最適化するための方策を5つのステップで解説します。それを実施 することにより、経費削減だけでなく、将来利益をもたらすビジネスへの投資を行う資金を生み出すことができるでしょう。
アジェンダ:
・ 企業が克服しなければならない4つのチャレンジ
・ 不況に打ち勝つアプリケーション戦略を構築するための5つのステップ
1.不況下におけるビジネスをサポートするアプリケーション戦略を構築する
2.持続可能な変化を実現できる組織を作る
3.コモディティ化されたプロセスと特殊なプロセスにおいて効率化の機会を探す
4.効果的なテクノロジー戦略(SaaS、SOA、BPM)を選択する
5.ベンダーとの関係を見直す
Ray Wang氏
フォレスターリサーチ バイスプレジデント兼プリンシパル・アナリスト
[プロフィール]
レ イ・ワンはフォレスターリサーチのバイスプレジデント兼プリンシパル・アナリスト。グローバル企業から中小企業に至るまで、企業のビジネスプロセスおよび アプリケーション戦略についてリサーチを行い、実行可能なアドバイスを提供している。2008年には、彼の経験から導かれる深い洞察力とIT知識、中立的 なアドバイス、そしてお客様を常に第一に考える姿勢が評価され、アナリスト・リレーションズをサポートする非営利団体IIAR(Institute of Industry AnalystRelations) が行った調査により、“アナリスト・オブ・ザ・イヤー(Analystof the Year)” に選ばれた。
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講演
■日本IBM
(出演者調整中)
15:00
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15:50
講演
■SoftwareAG
(出演者調整中)
15:55
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16:45
講演
■依頼中
16:50
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講演
■依頼中
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Recession creates an opportunity for frank vendor - client discussion
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