SAP SaaS Strategy Needs To Deliver

摘要

SAP articulated three pillars of its strategy at last week's Sapphire conference: on-prem-ises, on-demand, and on-de-vice (meaning mobile devices). Of those, the on-demand pillar looks the weakest.rnThe problem is that it's currently more about plans than actual products. SAP does have its BI OnDe-mand software-as-a-service business that originated with BusinessOb-jects. But it has yet to broadly release the SMB-focused Business By-Design ERP suite, and it has no public timetable for private-cloud virtualization on Vblock infrastructure through its just-announced partnership with Cisco, EMC, and VMware. (See story, above.)