Thank you to Phil Drinwater for the following.
Following SAP CEO Henning Kagermann’s presentation at SAP's fourth annual analyst summit, Shai Agassi, president of the Product & Technology Group, laid out the company's technical vision. He believes that SAP is in position to lead the chasm-crossing from the client-server model to enterprise SOA, and become the dominant software platform.
He cited Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm , in which the author states that the first company to cross the chasm–to transition from one technology generation to the next–can galvanize 80- to 90 percent of the ecosystem. An ecosystem doesn't want to adopt multiple platform standards, and would rather have one strong platform, one backbone running core processes, to build around.
Philip Drinkwater
The University of Manchester
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Would you welcome some thoughts on this from me, an interested outsider? I have plenty of thoughts on this subject!
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If SAP really can cross this chasm, they will be the first ICT incumbent to ever do so.
Every other new generation of technology in ICT has grown from invisibility, with ordinary users buying it out of their own budgets, to forcing the IT department to respond, against their "better" judgement, only when it got so huge they could no longer ignore it. This happened with minicomputers, then PCs.
Can SAP really do what they say, given this history?
They certainly know what the issue is, which is itself a new phenomenon, since most imcumbents are too arrogant to notice what is coming.
My experience is that only finance people really like SAP. Everyone else hates it and tries to avoid using it. So how can SAP overcome that perceptual problem?
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