Comments on: Case Study: T-Mobile and Adobe Flex, Extending SAP with Agile methods http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:40:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Thomas Otter http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2057 Thomas Otter Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:54:42 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2057 James, saw this from the Analyst days... Among them was Dan McWeeney, business-process analyst at Colgate-Palmolive, which runs about 95% of its business on SAP. McWeeney says his team has built a proof-of-concept application using the Ruby on Rails open-source development language. "Pretty much every open source language can consume SOA easily," he said. McWeeney said the application for human-resources management was easy to develop and plug into the back-end SAP system, with little knowledge requirements of SAP. <a href="http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=196601726" rel="nofollow">http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=196601726</a> James,
saw this from the Analyst days…

Among them was Dan McWeeney, business-process analyst at Colgate-Palmolive, which runs about 95% of its business on SAP. McWeeney says his team has built a proof-of-concept application using the Ruby on Rails open-source development language. “Pretty much every open source language can consume SOA easily,” he said. McWeeney said the application for human-resources management was easy to develop and plug into the back-end SAP system, with little knowledge requirements of SAP.

http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=196601726

]]> By: Craig Cmehil http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2056 Craig Cmehil Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:07:01 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2056 It seems that James finally got around to blogging about something he saw. He talked a bit about it during one of the RedMonk Radio episodes but did not even scrat … It seems that James finally got around to blogging about something he saw. He talked a bit about it during one of the RedMonk Radio episodes but did not even scrat …

]]> By: James http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2055 James Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:26:57 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2055 Would love to see you attend: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/manchester/2006/11/blogging_workshop_at_bbc_manch_1.shtml#commentsanchor" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/manchester/2006/11/blogging_workshop_at_bbc_manch_1.shtml#commentsanchor</a> Would love to see you attend: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/manchester/2006/11/blogging_workshop_at_bbc_manch_1.shtml#commentsanchor

]]> By: dan mcweeney http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2054 dan mcweeney Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:52:55 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2054 James - I think things like this are only good for SAP and here's why. SAP sucks at UI, they always have and they probably always will; the shift you are starting to see is that SAP has finally decided as a corporation that they can't compete in the UI space, specifically on the web. From a business perspective they need to be focusing on the stability and diversity of their business applications, namely what they are best at. My CIO has said it a million times before, he can't remember the last time someone said one of our R/3 systems was down. However, I can never remember him saying that people truly enjoy using them :-). SAP needs to allow customers to create new paths to their own data --- you are starting to see this with the widget and scripting communities. Personally, though I am not sure the SAP customer base is ready to make these type of decisions for themselves. Customers have always bought a total solution from SAP, from database to UI so, it is interesting to see companies that are unafraid of those choices. As for the agile stuff, I am stewing on a new blog, I'll be sure to trackback here. -d James -
I think things like this are only good for SAP and here’s why. SAP sucks at UI, they always have and they probably always will; the shift you are starting to see is that SAP has finally decided as a corporation that they can’t compete in the UI space, specifically on the web. From a business perspective they need to be focusing on the stability and diversity of their business applications, namely what they are best at. My CIO has said it a million times before, he can’t remember the last time someone said one of our R/3 systems was down. However, I can never remember him saying that people truly enjoy using them :-). SAP needs to allow customers to create new paths to their own data — you are starting to see this with the widget and scripting communities. Personally, though I am not sure the SAP customer base is ready to make these type of decisions for themselves. Customers have always bought a total solution from SAP, from database to UI so, it is interesting to see companies that are unafraid of those choices. As for the agile stuff, I am stewing on a new blog, I’ll be sure to trackback here.

-d

]]> By: Thomas Otter http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2053 Thomas Otter Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:41:59 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/12/01/case-study-t-mobile-and-adobe-flex-extending-sap-with-agile-methods/#comment-2053 James, Cool bananas. Any chance of a screencam or a couple of screen prints? Actually come to think of it I'd like to see a youtube type arrangement for demos. Imagine being able to go and see demos of all the products and developments you were interested in. Thomas James,
Cool bananas. Any chance of a screencam or a couple of screen prints?

Actually come to think of it I’d like to see a youtube type arrangement for demos. Imagine being able to go and see demos of all the products and developments you were interested in.

Thomas

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