by Thomas Otter | November 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Please define these terms and arrange in chronological order. You may augment the list. Launched Introduced Announced Previewed Pre-Announced Private Beta Beta Selective ramp up Ramp up Rolled out Limited Availability Shipping Limited General Availability General Availability Functionally complete I go to a lot of software conferences, and read many press releases. In the last few [...]
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Category: Events Vendor Contracts finance software industry Tags: complexity, marketing
by Thomas Otter | September 8, 2011 | 8 Comments
In early October I’ll be heading over the pond to HR Tech. This is like the gathering in the Highlander. And Bill Kutik is the Christopher Lambert character with the beard and vast broadsword. Bill as been around in HR technology since the Lyons tea room payroll, and he is constant as the northern star, [...]
by Thomas Otter | May 5, 2011 | 4 Comments
I’m heading down to South Africa for the Gartner on SAP event, at Sun City 1 and 2 of June. This is the third time I’ve been to the event. We have 4 analysts attending, and I’m really looking forward to it. We will be going through what we think of SAP’s strategy and we [...]
Category: Africa ERP Events SAP Tags: Gartner, SAP, Sooth Africa
by Thomas Otter | October 10, 2010 | Comments Off
I’m off to Berlin tomorrow evening, to spend two days at SAP Teched. photo via cc of Svenwerk. Thanks. Earlier this year, SAP did a good job at Sapphire in laying out more compelling vision. I expect Teched to be about adding some details to that vision, and I’m looking of evidence of execution: These [...]
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Category: Events SAP software industry Tags: Berlin, SAP, SAP teched
by Thomas Otter | October 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have been to many, many software conferences, but I’m especially fond of the HR tech conference in Chicago. It has a good mix of vendors and practitioners, and is well worth a visit. Over the years at conferences around the world, I’ve strolled the vendor booths, and seen all sorts. Some, just a desk [...]
Category: Events HCM innovation Tags: hrtech; events; conference; HR; HCM
by Thomas Otter | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
Next week I’m taking part in a 2 1/2 day workshop for Gartner Enterprise IT leader clients on SAP. We bring together about 40 IT leaders from various companies from across Europe as well as several analysts. The session I’ll be leading will digging into UI and usability options and challenges. We will present an [...]
by Thomas Otter | March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
I’m featuring two academics for this year’s Ada Lovelace day. It is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Firstly: Dr Sue Black. I’ve not met Sue, except on twitter, but I have admired her efforts to support Bletchley Park for some time now. She blogs about [...]
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Category: Events history software industry Tags: ada lovelace day, ald10, finding ada, Sue Black, Theano
by Thomas Otter | October 21, 2009 | Comments Off
(photo mine, use with cc attribution licence) Hotel Fusion, San Francisco. I’m just back home from a trip to California. I attended Oracle Open World, and had several other meetings in the bay area. I saw the Keynote presentation, and on the next day I spent an hour or so with the leaders of HCM [...]
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Category: Events software industry Tags: Fusion, Oracle
by Thomas Otter | January 13, 2009 | 5 Comments
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a [...]
Category: Events software industry Tags: AdaLovelaceDay09 women technology Suw
by Thomas Otter | November 11, 2008 | Comments Off
On the 2nd and 3rd of December Gartner is running a conference for the German market at the Frankfurt Airport Sheraton. Details here. You can flick through a funky online brochure here. The German IT market has its own quirks and nuances. SAP looms even larger than it does in other markets, so I expect [...]
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Category: Events SAP software industry Tags: Events, German Conference, Green, SAP
