 | |  | | By Doug Henschen | | | SAP Gives ERP A Facelift SAP has redefined itself as a business-to-business-to-consumer company, declared co-CEO Bill McDermott on Tuesday at the company's annual SAPPHIRE Conference. So it's now a "number-one priority" for the enterprise applications vendor to deliver "beautiful," consumer-grade user interfaces, he said.
McDermott's B2B2C message was wrapped in warnings about the dangers of failing to keep up with cloud, social, mobile, and real-time expectations. These expectations are being set, he said, by the Millennial generation: 18- to 33-year-olds who are now "the biggest target market on earth" and "the driving force behind technology innovation," both as consumers and, increasingly, as employees.
On Wednesday, the company was set to announce SAP Fiori, a collection of 25 HTML5 applications designed for desktop, tablet, and smartphone interaction. Fiori means "to flower" in Italian, and the name is meant to symbolize the renewal of SAP's core applications with clean, touch-friendly interfaces that look more like screens you'd see on Facebook or Amazon.com.
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COMMENTARY Social Business Not Dead, Just Business As Usual By Fritz Nelson It wasn't long ago that companies such as Jive and Yammer were proclaiming the era of the social enterprise. Knowledge workers no longer would be slaves to email. The best parts of social media would find their way to the workplace (sans photos of drunken friends). Knowledge and data would be found and shared with ease. Communication would be neither push nor pull but one or the other in the most appropriate times. Software Hot, Hardware Not, At EMC World, Interop By Kurt Marko After a week that started at EMC World, where the talk was of storage systems, big data, and information-driven applications, and ended at Interop, where the spotlight was on programmable networks, enabling and taming the mobile ecosystem, and the "Internet of Things," it's clear that the emphasis across the IT world is rapidly shifting from hardware to software. When IT Doesn't Choose Applications By Tom Petrocelli Until recently, corporate IT has been responsible for delivering the meat to feed the application beast. Now, a shift is changing the traditional IT role and the impact is only going to get more radical. Non-IT professionals--managers of other business functions and other knowledge workers in general--are buying their own software and apps and services. MetLife Uses NoSQL For Customer Service Breakthrough By Doug Henschen Developing an integrated customer view has been on the wish list at insurance giant MetLife for at least 10 years, but it recently took a fresh approach to the challenge by choosing a NoSQL database as the platform for bringing together data from more than 70 separate administrative systems, claims systems, and other data sources. It moved from pilot to rollout in 90 days--breakneck speed in an industry used to measuring IT projects in months and years. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By Tony Kontzer: "Really great examples of counter-instinct innovation initiatives, Chris. The Intermountain example about the server installs is a particularly powerful one. I'm betting a huge percentage of CIOs wouldn't even classify that as innovation--they'd call it something blander like 'process improvement' out of some misguided idea that innovation needs to be huge, like a summer action flick." In reply to: 5 Contrarian Tips On Innovation View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Research: 2013 BI/Analytics Salary Survey Companies know that advanced analytics can give them a competitive advantage, but how do they get there? With 44 percent of staffers in our salary survey saying one of their top duties is "designing and revising reports" and just 12 percent of managers and 10 percent of staff focusing on tasks that can help predict performance, it appears there's still a long road ahead.
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