After the Enterprise Services Architecture, your applications world will be made from apps by us based on these services, apps from ISVs...and apps you build yourself. |
I don't know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road. |
If a company puts in a solution in the market that makes other people fail, then we all fail as a community. This will be a model for enterprise services and how new ideas are proposed, developed and offered into in the market. It's an IP model to protect what you want to protect and one to protect everyone in the community, so you can't come after someone just because you gave them an idea for an enterprise service interface. |
Instead of forcing you into SAP, we let you use it anywhere you go, your way. |
Instead of spending money on technical integration, you'll spend money on business innovation. |
It looks great on PowerPoint, but on planet Earth, it won't fly. Salesforce.com is a CRM company. Marc is trying to make noise and buzz about something bigger, but that's all it is. |
It will be a systematic process. The (community partners) have to be successful for this whole model to work. If you don't make money in this process, we're not successful. We know that and we understand that. |
It's all about execution now. |
It's not about who is buying whom in the industry, it's about process innovation. |
Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that. |
No one has said that we will only stay in that area. |
One thing we've done is [enable] a nice transition toward it. You can pick your pace. |
Organizations have started to create road maps that will enable their transition to a service-oriented architecture. As such, the SAP TechEd events create a community for success by allowing customers, partners and developers to share and accelerate knowledge surrounding SAP NetWeaver while they discover how existing processes and IT landscapes can be transformed into enablers of business innovation and change. |
Our goal was to have a same-day deployment model. You sign up in the morning, and you're up and running by the afternoon. |
People will take more risk with edge process than core processes. |