Press coverage of User Group Conference

A  fantastic conference with great speakers, great discussions and great people – some coverage below:

 

Silicon – Users tell SAP we need to talk more

http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39668399,00.htm

 

Computer Weekly – Durex maker gets satisfaction with SAP

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/25/239456/durex-maker-gets-satisfaction-with-sap.htm

 

Computer Weekly – In bed with SAP: the future for enterprise software?

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/25/239457/in-bed-with-sap-the-future-for-enterprise-software.htm

 

Computer Weekly – SAP user groups make ‘great progress’ working with SAP

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/24/239443/SAP-user-groups-make-quotgreat-progressquot-in-working-with.htm

 

Computer Weekly – SAP at odds with user group over prices

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/24/239438/SAP-at-odds-with-user-group-over-prices.htm

 

Computer Weekly – SAP vows to get closer to its users

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/23/239429/sap-vows-to-get-closer-to-its-users.htm

 

Computing – SAP criticised for slow pace of innovation

http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2253932/sap-criticised-lack-innovation

 

V3 – SAP set for vital KPI announcement

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2253848/sap-set-software-value-kpis

 

SAPinfo – SAP UKI User Group: How innovative is SAP?

http://en.sap.info/saas-cloud-uk-ireland-conference/18550

 

SAP user group ‘proves its worth’ it tells members

http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/applications/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsId=17738

 

ComputerworldUK – SAP not delivering on innovation user group told 

http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=17731&email

 

ZDNet – SAP users start to flex their muscles

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1558

 

ZDNet – Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1551&tag=content;col1

 

CIO – SAP user group ‘proves its worth’ it tells members

http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3207322/sap-user-group-proves-its-worth-it-tells-members/

 

CIO – SAP not delivering on innovation user group told

http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3207317/sap-not-delivering-on-innovation-user-group-claims/

 

InfoWorld – SAP not delivering on innovation user group told

http://www.infoworld.com/t/network-monitoring-and-management/sap-not-delivering-innovation-user-group-told-021

 

Industry Standard – SAP not delivering on innovation user group told

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/11/25/sap-not-delivering-innovation-user-group-told

 

IT News – SAP set for vital KPI announcement

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/161300,sap-set-for-vital-kpi-announcement.aspx

Official….the biggest yet

This years conference which takes place on Monday and Tuesday is the biggest yet – more delegates, more speakers and more exhibitors. You can still book on line for the last few seats – but you need to be quick.

Great keynotes, Chakib Boudhary, Ray Wang, Kriss Akabusi, Tim Noble, and Richard Newman plus 0ver 90 other speakers. Great venue, great Networking dinner – and a great opportunity to learn.

…………….and great value!

Second Athlete confirmed……

Thanks to Atos Origin, Jason Gardener another Gold Medal sprinter will also be at the conference. Both Jason and Kriss Akabusi share the distinction of beating the US favourite team into 2nd place.

Change of Keynote Speaker

Chakib Bouhdary, Chief Value Officer, S A P AG,  replaces Jose Duarte, President SAP EMEA as this year’s S A P keynote speaker. Given the pivotal role that delivering value plays in S A P’s go-to-market strategy, S A P were delighted the UK User Group has granted them the opportunity to make this change to the agenda. S A P  believe this focus will best address the business challenges they know their customers face and that Chakib will provide delegates with valuable insight as to how they can become best run businesses in the year ahead.

At a time when delivering value is such a key area for all organisations no matter which sector they operate in I’m delighted to have Chakib at our conference.

Conference just 2 weeks away!

As expected the number of delegates continues to swell – we’ve beaten 2006 already, look set to beat 2008 early this week, and are still ahead at this stage of our best ever in 2007.  With over 90 speakers and over 70 exhibitors it really does look set to be the biggest conference we have ever run. If you are going to go and haven’t booked your place yet then get in quick as there really is limited seating in the auditorium.  Book on the website.

 

Breaking News……..

We hope to be able to confirm in the next week, another UK World Championship medal winner in attendance at the conference thanks to one of the exhibitors. The plan is that he will be around and work with Kriss Akabusi during the networking evening. Keep watching for details.

So you want to use Windows 7 with SAP Business One and Crystal reports……

Well guess what – it’s not a problem! Orchestra a company from the US reports that it worked and works well – in fact better than XP.  Check out the story on their website.

New article posted in Computer Weekly

I got another article published in Computer Weekly this week, both online and in print.

It also sparked some interest from a CW blogger. To get more information aroundthe benefts of SAP upgrades get to our conference in Manchester.

Conference still sits ahead of best ever…….

With just 6 weeks to go we currently are at the highest level we have been, in terms of attendees for our conference. The numbers booked pitch us at a number that puts us 3 weeks ahead of the best position we have achieved in the past. Because we have booked a custom conference centre we can’t expand to cope with numbers so if you are hovering about whether to attend make the call as last minute may be too late.

Click here to go the conference site.

Cloudy concerns……..

There’s an article that refers to the recent outage problems with GMail on ITKnowledge Exchange. In a previous post a few months back I referred to an example of SAP rescuing people from a failing cloud company, and also the implications of this with previous clients.  Some of the concerns are raised in the comments that appear around that article. For me the biggest issue still remains the due diligence process required to ensure things like outages, data security and exit processes and clauses are clearly defined and understood.