From the Department of Irony and Confusion:
- Businesses Reject SaaS as Core Platform
- SAP’s Business ByDemand: The Perfection Conundrum
- ByDesign, the younger person’s ERP
- SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confident
- Decelerating ByDesign
See if you can find a common theme. The only one I could find: She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not,…
I really like the “rejection” of SaaS by customers that are in the middle of SAP implementations or run large SAP implementations.
As Upton Sinclair said: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Update: Dan Druker has a great, thoughtful post on challenges faced by traditional ISVs entitled Different is Hard: SAP – (Not Too Much) Business By Design