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Today I came across “Germany 2006: SAP is a German and European success story” article at Finfacs Ireland. It is a very nice article which combines SAP’s success story, future trends and FIFA World Cup 2006 which will begin in Munich on June 9th.

I am thinking a series of article about SAP and aspects of an SAP Technical Consultant. It is obvious the first article should be “What is SAP?”. I think this article is a kind of impressive article which describes SAP very well. So I would take whole article here and underline some sentences.

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Have you seen Jeff Nolan’s Business Card? Jeff Nolan is Director – Apollo Strategy Group in SAP Global Marketing, Inc. It is obvious that Apollo Strategy Group’s mission is “Attack Oracle”. Jeff Nolan frankly told his mission in an interview with Tom Foremski. I am wondering how many SAP Employees whose business card says “Attack Oracle” is there? What Oracle people think about that? Does Oracle have “Attack SAP” group?

Jeff Nolan pointed out that he setup a new blog behind SAP’s firewall – it means it can be reached by only inside SAP. He said the reason being that he has stuff he can’t distribute externally, or just confidentially. If you are an SAP employee you can try to look at Jeff Nolan’s (internal) Blog. I am wondering that all SAP employees have an internal blog!

He is also mentioning SAP Apollo Blogs, and even we can see a test site that is available to the public. I liked the design of this blog! But what are SAP Apollo Blogs? We know SAP SDN Blogs, but they are public. We just know that Jeff Nolan is Director of the Apollo Group. Tom Foremski says about him:

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SAP Executive Shai Agassi spoke to more than 1,500 technology leaders at the annual Software 2006 event about trends he is seeing in the marketplace.

1. We believe that for I.T. to deliver the flexibility organizations need, it must create a single, unified platform that provides a repository of coherent services.

“One of the things we’re doing right now is opening up our technology platform to partners, including developers and integrators, which allow them to build their unique apps on top of our platform,” Agassi highlighted. “SAP’s platform provides a single repository of enterprise services, where the entire ecosystem can leverage our technology by building the solutions that are needed for every customer.”

2. We believe the market has shifted from point solutions to industry-flavored suites.

Agassi continued, “The days of buying point products are long behind us. Five years from now, customers will only buy suites. You won’t purchase individual point products such as ERP, CRM, supply chain management or HR applications that will ship to you as separate entities and that will end up as a collection of services that you need to manage. Customers are looking to drive a higher level of value out of their industry flavored, enterprise software solutions and they are doing this through deploying application suites.”

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Tom Foremski published 3rd part of interview with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP’s top strategists.

Tom Foremski says:

Mr Nolan’s mission is to develop a strategy will disrupt Oracle and also use blogging and the new media technologies such as wikis, in building an internal SAP blogosphere. That should generate a tremendous amount of competitive intelligence from within SAP. And there is also an external communications component and that is to make sure that SAP is well represented in whatever IT conversations are out there.

Jeff Nolan says:

We have to make sure that we are known by the influential bloggers and publications out there, and the best way is by meeting with them, putting a face to a name.

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I was thinking to write an article about Oracle SAP ads which can be seen in tech magazines. Today I came across Brad Grimes & Joab Jackson’s “Deconstructing the Oracle SAP ads” and I was inspired to write this article. I had pointed out this topic before.

Today both SAP and Oracle are respected Enterprise Resource Planning system providers (ERP). Not too long ago just 6 years ago if you ask someone what major ERP vendors, you would get this answer: SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Oracle, etc… We could think that those 4 companies are the biggest player in ERP. SAP was the biggest of them and still the biggest one! But then Oracle –Larry Ellison- thought to fight SAP. It / he started to acquire companies. PeopleSoft bought JD Edwards, Oracle bought PeopleSoft. Oracle bought other companies too like Retek, Siebel, etc… So today there are only two major ERP vendors anymore: SAP & Oracle.

There is a great cat fight between SAP & Oracle. I say cat fight, because it doesn’t seem a normal competition. I will explain. Who started this cat fight? It seems Oracle started it.

Look at these Oracle’s advertisements. Target is directly SAP on them. Arguments certainly are discussable!

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