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Software

Ontario Chicken Farmers pluck SAP to resolve growing complexity of their market needs

May 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ontario Chicken Farmers pluck SAP to resolve growing complexity of their market needs
The OCF found that in addition to resolving massively increased complexity in market allocation issues stemming from the growing segmentation of the market, implementing the SAP solution gave them the benefits of CRM for the first time, and enabled them to realize major benefits from going digital.

Channel Programs

SAP Canada contemplates major drop to Large Enterprise line to provide more partner support

May 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP Canada contemplates major drop to Large Enterprise line to provide more partner support
SAP Canada is thinking about dropping its one billion dollar threshold defining the direct space to the 500-600 million range, but is emphasizing that the idea wouldn’t be to take more business direct, but to make SAP direct resources available to assist partners in the upper half of the SME space.

Cloud

Major restructuring of SAP SME applications business designed to unlock growth

May 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Major restructuring of SAP SME applications business designed to unlock growth
SAP Business One is fourth in its category with 1.8 per cent market share globally, but its general manager, Luis Murguia, believes a major organizational change which was quietly implemented in April can help to deliver significant growth.

Partner Awards

SAP Application Innovation award winner OpenText sees SAP as hub of new partner push

May 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP Application Innovation award winner OpenText sees SAP as hub of new partner push
OpenText has historically been mainly a direct player, but is looking to leverage its strong partnership and personal relationships with SAP, and its relationship with SAP partner Accenture to build up its channel business in Canada.

Cloud

SAP promises new emphasis on understanding customer problems

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP promises new emphasis on understanding customer problems
CEO Bill McDermott didn’t exactly promise a kinder, gentler SAP, but he did pledge a company that will be more empathetic to customers, have a more complete vision, and be more focused on simplicity. He also offered a forecast of some trends he thinks SAP will be well positioned to leverage.

Cloud

SAP, Microsoft expand partnership through deepened cloud integrations and support

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP, Microsoft expand partnership through deepened cloud integrations and support
None of the announcements, which included joint validation for SAP HANA on the Azure platform, were earth-shattering, but they do speak to the significance of the relationship between the two long-time allies and how they see the market moving.

Channel Programs

SAP unveils new North American channel boss to partners

May 17, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP unveils new North American channel boss to partners
Long-time SAPer Scott Jones returns from a short sojourn at another company to take on the job of running SAP’s North American partner network.

Cloud

EMC LEAP looks to revolutionize ECM, take Documentum downmarket

May 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC LEAP looks to revolutionize ECM, take Documentum downmarket
Project Horizon officially comes to market as EMC LEAP, next-gen cloud-native content apps sold on a SaaS model. While available free through a Loyalty Program to existing Documentum customers, the intent here is to greatly expand the customer base downmarket, with the aid of an expanded channel.

Software

Syncplicity to simplify content migration to its Sync and Share platform with new tool

April 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Syncplicity to simplify content migration to its Sync and Share platform with new tool
Business has been booming at enterprise Sync and Share vendor Syncplicity since they were spun out of EMC last year. Now they are unveiling a new content migration tool to simplify and automate migrations to their platform, and which the customer can also license to maintain permanent birectional access.

Channel Programs

Epicor reworking sales culture, channel strategy, in strategic reorientation

April 22, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Epicor reworking sales culture, channel strategy, in strategic reorientation
A key part of this is a major strengthening of the Epicor channel, including in the United States, where it has always been a small proportion of sales. Significant programmatic initiatives will be coming this fall.