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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The SAP Business as Unusual book by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier was released on December 20. (click on badge on left to link to the Amazon page). The book relies heavily on conversations with SAP, customer, partner, research firm.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Jake Sorofman, CMO at Visier, a Vancouver, BC based vendor focused on.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Business as Unusual book authored by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier that we helped interview a wide range of SAP, customer and partner executives for is being released on Amazon in two weeks – see book page at [link].

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the 80th episode of Burning Platform, we host Dr. Geeta Nayyar (“Dr.G”), SVP and Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce Jujhar Singh, EVP & GM, Salesforce Industries recently gave us an update on Salesforce’s health and life sciences cloud from.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Eynat Guez, co-founder and CEO of Papaya Global. Papaya offers a global.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I am looking forward to the Salesforce event next week, and expect to be spending time in the “Industries” Zone in the Dreamforce Campground. My FitBit is going to be pleased - the Campground is 40,000 square feet in size!

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JULY 8, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Martin Rowan, Managing Partner of Reveal USA, based in Chicagoland. Their website.

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JUNE 18, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Chris Knight, Global Industry Director for Construction and Engineering presenting on trends.

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MAY 25, 2022

In the 75th episode of Burning Platform, we host Tomas O’Leary, Founder of Origina which provides independent support for IBM software products. He is also President of Free ICT, a not-for-profit foundation actively promoting the ICT Secondary Market. Their objective.

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MARCH 9, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Matthew Wright, Founder and CEO of Specright which provides specification data.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Ashley Etling, co-founder and CEO of Limeloop, which is blending material.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Lori Mitchell-Keller, VP Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. Lori covers wide.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Meredith Schmidt, EVP of Revenue Cloud at Salesforce. She paints a.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In the 59th episode of Burning Platform, we (again) host Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters. We have a wide ranging conversation around supply chains - the challenges in the semiconductor sector, the chaos at the California ports, the labor.

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California Hosting Conversion 195

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Cristina Goldt, GM Talent products at Workday who provides an update.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. I have invited SAP to present updates on various verticals as I discussed here This.

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JUNE 24, 2021

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Salesforce held an Industries Summit earlier this month. They invited me to an analyst pre-briefing.

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JUNE 23, 2021

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Salesforce held an Industries Summit earlier this month. They invited me to an analyst pre-briefing.

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MARCH 29, 2021

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Over the last year, I have been impressed with a variety of pandemic.

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MARCH 29, 2021

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. James Cramer, CEO of Zimit, a Workday Ventures portfolio company presented to me.

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MARCH 6, 2021

In the 33rd episode of the series is Jyoti Banerjee, co-founder of North Star Transition. I first met Jyoti a quarter of a century ago and have always known him for focusing on better corporate reporting and finance. He has.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In the 31st episode of the series I am joined by James Governor, co-founder of Redmonk. In September 2000, Steve Ballmer was ahead of most executives in loudly cheering for software developers. The video below leads off with his exuberance.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In the 30th episode of the series I am joined by Mark Taylor, SVP and Global Practice Lead at Cognizant Digital Experience. I first met Mark when I profiled Cognizant's research on the spurt in voice interfaces in 2020 in.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2021

In the 29th episode of the Burning Platform series is Geoff Scott, CEO of ASUG (Americas' SAP User Group). He provides perspective on RISE by SAP - the recently announced SAP initiative. See Analyst Cam post about it here. Dennis.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

SAP Nation 3.0, which was published last year, took me 6 months longer than I had planned. When I looked at the first draft, it was dominated by S/4HANA. I told Stacey Fish, who was helping me navigate SAP I.

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JULY 22, 2020

In December, I wrote decade-end perspectives on enterprise software and services. You can read them again here and here. So, how has the pandemic changed the landscape? In many ways, it has exposed the weaknesses of many software and services.

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JUNE 15, 2020

I listened to Christian Klein's keynote from the virtual Sapphire event today - watch replay here. It was his first as CEO and he came across very well. Energetic, professional and very comfortable in a digital setting. His keynote focused.

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JUNE 15, 2020

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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Vertical Conversion Video Software 248

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MAY 26, 2020

It's been wonderful to see Blue Angels, Thunderbirds and other planes do flyovers over different cities to honor front line workers during the COVID-19 crisis. Here is one over Washington, DC. While those flyovers have received media attention, very little.

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MAY 3, 2020

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I am big fan of automation and how it can make workers more productive and customer-friendly. In my book, Silicon Collar, I had a number of examples of automation which led to "super workers" - drivers who can drive millions.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Karl-Heinz Streibich is President of acatech, the National Academy of Science and Engineering in Germany. In that role, he is constantly interacting with business and academic leaders, and has a unique perspective on STEM trends in Germany and broadly across.

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Germany Engineer Conversion Global 150

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Francine McKenna is a prolific commentator on the accounting, audit, and corporate governance issues affecting public and pre-IPO private companies.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

So many data points cannot be wrong, can they? Larry Ellison talks about SAP's customers moving away during the Oracle earnings call. IFS runs a billboard ad suggesting the same. I get whispers from several other competitors suggesting SAP is.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Most conversations about the Future of Work that we hear in professional circles are similar to those in this Cognizant webinar and report. The comments tend to be tough, but fair. In mainstream media, however, I am seeing increasingly hostile.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

Larry Ellison hinted at this in his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld last month. He joked he did not have many friends and that he would hate to lose Mark Hurd. In a corny way that was quite a tribute to.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

OK, it could have been just me. I drove to Rising and parked for the duration. No airports or highways to worry about. Unusual week for me. I was certainly in a relaxed state of mind. However, I noticed it.

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