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SAP’s Customers’ CIOs Face Some Urgent Crucial Decisions

Forrester IT

The CIOs of SAP customers need to pay close attention to the vendor’s announcement earlier today with details on how it intends to modernize its software licensing model. Please don’t think that “software licensing” is an esoteric topic that you can delegate to someone a level or two down in your organization.

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Can you work around SAP indirect access software licensing?

Computer Weekly

The SAP legal case against Diageo highlights the seemingly arbitrary rules governing software licensing

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High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case

Computer Weekly

Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database

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Treading softly around SAP license compliance

IT Toolbox

I have written before on the challenges presented by licensing indirect SAP use and despite the launch of a new mechanism to check compliance this area still represents and area of concern for SAP customers

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SAP and customers still in cockpit of debate about indirect licensing

Computer Weekly

SAP and the UK & Ireland SAP user group have been thrashing out the topic of indirect licensing in 2017. Is there an amicable settlement in sight

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Sapphire 2017: McDermott declares SAP indirect licensing policy change

Computer Weekly

At SAP’s annual Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida, CEO Bill McDermott rules out of court charging for static read access in third-party systems

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Five Shades Darker? – What The Diageo “Indirect Access” Judgement Really Means For SAP Customers

Forrester IT

At last, exactly two years later, the long-awaited sequel to my hit, if overly censored, blog post: Five Shades Of Grey (How software buyers and license managers should be compliant without being submissive). The trigger is the SAP vs Diageo verdict , which generated a lot of hysterical blogging and tweeting with dire predictions for SAP customers. My analysis, subject to the usual IANAL disclaimer, is that the real implications are: Read more Categories: SAP.

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SAP goes after world’s largest brewing company in $600m licence dispute

Computer Weekly

Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev says it intends to defend “vigorously” against software licensing claims by SAP

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SAP users react with concern to SAP High Court victory over Diageo

Computer Weekly

SAP UK and Ireland User Group has reacted to the supplier’s High Court victory over Diageo in indirect licensing dispute

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Accenture to Provide SAP HANA as a Service on Top of HP Infrastructure

Data Center Knowledge

Vendors team up on a service offering aimed primarily at clients who bought HANA but have not started deploying or using all capabilities their licenses cover. Big Data Enterprise Hewlett-Packard accenture sap sap hana Read More.

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UKISUG 2017: only 2% of British and Irish SAP users plan to use Leonardo

Computer Weekly

Connect, the SAP UK and Ireland User Group conference, hears that just 2% of customers intend to use the supplier’s Leonardo AI toolbox, and 49% are unaware of new licensing policy

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Indirect Usage and the challenge of licensing

IT Toolbox

Software companies like SAP must defend their license revenue. The expertise and forces they bring to bear in the overall process of assessing Indirect usage should not be underestimated

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Acumatica jabs at SAP Concur with new expense reporting features in latest challenge to tech titans

GeekWire

Business technology company Acumatica expanded its expense reporting capabilities as part of a broader wave of product updates this week, promising a lower-priced alternative to offerings from SAP Concur, the travel and expense management powerhouse based a short drive away in Bellevue, Wash.

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Top 10 business applications stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Indirect licensing of SAP software was the big story, with SAP’s victory over Diageo in the High Court proving a tinderbox. AI, machine learning and blockchain oscillated between hype and reality

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Leonardo and the Connected Fleet

IT Toolbox

SAP Leonardo includes application licenses, analytics licenses, IoT Services on the SAP Cloud platform, and machine learning microservices, each of which has its own subscription price. It also includes consulting under Leonardo Innovation services

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Fed Tech Roundup August 27

CTOvision

Iowa testing digital driver's licenses - GCN.com. 4th Annual SAP NS2 Solutions Summit. The License Plate Surveillance Technology That Caught the Virginia Shooter - Newsweek. The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Army tries to speed cyber acquisition process - FCW.com. State Dept. IG chides diplomats for using private email.

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Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax that targets stocks

GeekWire

” RELATED: Capital gains tax ruled constitutional by Washington state Supreme Court “As part of Tempo, we will maintain this flexible approach for our talent and may at some point opt to establish our business license in more business-friendly locale than Seattle,” he said.

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Funding news: Microsoft vets raise $12M for Round; PTO Exchange lands $5M; and more

GeekWire

Round’s other co-founders include Mani Gill , a former SAP executive who co-founded VoloMetrix with Fuller. PupPod , the Seattle startup behind an app-based interactive toy for dogs, landed more cash and signed a licensing agreement with Company of Animals.

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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy

GeekWire

The company announced that Mark Nelson , the former CTO at SAP Concur who joined Tableau nearly three years ago as vice president of product development, has been named president and CEO. Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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Tech Moves: Ex-Twilio CIO named CTO at Slalom; Eviation adds CEO; Docugami builds team

GeekWire

She was also senior VP of software development for TripIt and Mobile at SAP Concur. He also held engineering positions at Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group and is a licensed commercial pilot. Michelle Grover. Slalom Photo).

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. General purpose solutions, like the Hadoop ecosystem, deliver an economical way of storing, pre-processing and/or summarizing these data sets and streams, thereby minimizing the unchecked growth in commercial licensing investments within your enterprise.

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Pioneering study uses traffic cameras and AI to predict future, promising to save lives and money

GeekWire

Two intersections of concern for high rates of near crashes between motorists and cyclists or pedestrians are in Bellevue’s downtown and near offices for tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Smartsheet and SAP Concur.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Introducing AWS Marketplace - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Marketplace has software listings from well-known vendors including 10gen, CA, Canonical, Couchbase, Check Point Software, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Zend, and others, as well as many widely used open source offerings including Wordpress, Drupal, and MediaWiki. no software to install, no sales cycle, no procurement delays, and a selection of licensing models to choose from. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Cloud computing in Europe should put power in the hands of the customer

All Things Distributed

Europe’s fastest growing start-ups, like Spotify , Soundcloud , Hailo , JustEat , WeTransfer and Shazam , through to some of the region’s largest, and oldest, enterprises, like Royal Dutch Shell , Schneider Electric , SAP , BP and Unilever , through to governments, education and research institutes, all are using cloud computing technologies to innovate faster and better serve their customers and the citizens of Europe.

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Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Online bringing people together: Brooklyn Bridge Photowalk | Main | Newsgator implements APML: the value of standards in an open world » Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 Ross Dawson, October 14, 2007 8:44 PM US PT When people talk about the future, they usually point to all the new things that will come to pass.

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Framework is released on a Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to use it and build on it as they please, as long as there is attribution with a link to this blog post and/ or Future Exploration Network. About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Particls switches on the power of RSS | Main | A week of hot news on the web: Trade sales mark the boom » Launching the Web 2.0

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Madrona Venture Group’s Steve Singh on key trends to watch coming out of the pandemic

GeekWire

You can do that today, if you spend $100 million on SAP software licenses and 20, 30, $50 million a year in ongoing maintenance. Steve Singh, managing director of Madrona Venture Group, and former CEO of Docker and Concur. GeekWire File Photo).

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See our latest Trend Map! What to expect in 2008 and beyond…. - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Remember that our trend maps are generally for stimulation rather than being taken too seriously… :-) And as usual, the trend map is released on a Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons license , so if you disagree with the trends we’ve chosen or think you can improve on the map, feel free to play with it!

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Industrial policy in the global media economy - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

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ERP: automating processes | Enterprise 2.0: enabling knowledge work - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

In the context of market opportunities for the biggest enterprise software firm of them all, SAP, Sigurd Rinde wrote (in part): A Business Process is any process, sequential work or activity, that happens in an organisation. The IT systems go under catchy names like ERP, SCM, PLM, SRM, CRM and the biggest players are as we know SAP and Oracle plus a long roster of smaller firms. Sigurd proposed this sector as a massive opportunity for SAP.

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Herding Kangaroos - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

The Consumerization of IT (CoIT) has led them to realize that they can’t keep selling businesses licenses to their product that will sit on the shelf unused due to the exorbitant control that IT would be exerting on a user’s device. There are certainly solutions to some of these issues out there but the better question is how widely are they used and do they handle all enterorise apps or just the SAP/IBM/Whomever…It comes down to deploying these solutions in meaningful ways.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

In addition, Lonely Planet licenses its brand for a television travel series that is screened worldwide, and now it even publishes world music CDs. This emerging space is attracting competitors from all fronts, including software vendors such as SAP, start-ups such as Billpoint, and banks like JP Morgan Chase. License.

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Keynote speech: Success in the global economy: The future of business in the age of networks - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

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What is Enterprise 2.0? – a primer - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The power of Enterprise Mashups | Main | Interview on SkyBusiness TV: the state of the Yahoo! Microsoft battle » What is Enterprise 2.0? – a primer Ross Dawson, February 10, 2008 10:01 PM US PT On the newly relaunched Future Exploration Network website, we have added a ‘What is Enterprise 2.0’

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Open innovation in collaborative filtering - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « IBM drives open business | Main | Changing investor disclosure could transform the world of blogging » Open innovation in collaborative filtering Ross Dawson, October 2, 2006 4:15 PM US PT Netflix has just announced a $1 million prize to whoever can improve the accuracy of their movie recommendation engine.

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Why we will all have robot pets in the future - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Complimentary report: Executive Insights into Enterprise 2.0 from roundtable hosted by Future Exploration Network and IBM | Main | Is business yet to harness Web 2.0, or not yet willing to talk about it?

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Trend map for 2007 and beyond - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

And please don’t take it too seriously… As with most of our content, this is released on a Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons license , so if you disagree with the trends we’ve chosen or think you can improve on the map, please take it and run with it! About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Speaking about corporate innovation and the future of business | Main | Happy holidays!

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Value Networks Masterclass in New Zealand with Verna Allee - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Organizations such as Cisco, Boeing, SAP, and others are ardent proponents and users of value networks approaches. Verna, working with Oliver Schwabe and others, has released a suite of Creative Commons-licensed open resources, tools, and applications for value networks analysis.

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Media industry network analysis – tools for better strategic decisions - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The network map above provides a representation of radio and TV license ownership in Australia. The network shows the existence of ownership “syndicates”, where several ownership entities band together to jointly own multiple media licenses. Being centrally connected, in this case by part-owning many licenses, can be very beneficial.

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Live on Today show: how the relationship between people and machines is becoming emotional - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

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Announcing the 2008 Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list – Launch is on 19 June - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Montage of recent media coverage | Main | Living Networks - Chapter 4: Relationship Rules - Free Download and Commentary » Announcing the 2008 Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list – Launch is on 19 June Ross Dawson, May 11, 2008 3:38 PM US PT [UPDATE:] The final Top 100 list is now up. Following the great success of last year’s Top 60 Web 2.0

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Innovation in professional services: the case of DDB and Keith Reinhard - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This range of flavored drinking water for cats was created by DDB and is licensed to provide an ongoing revenue stream. Since a core element of DDB Worldwide’s business is developing brands, it actively seeks to create its own brands and license these to clients, thus keeping the intellectual property inhouse. It licenses this for an annual fee to the Stockholm Water Foundation, which on-licenses it to companies.

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MySpace embraces “data availability” – a major step forward to the Wide Open Web - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

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