"Evil West Poison" "Huashan" IT Standard "
On November 5, 2002, the world's largest enterprise management and synergistic e-commerce solution vendor SAP Company's joint chairman and Chief executive official Kong Hanning arrived in Beijing and participated in SAP's entitled "" At the same time, the grand 30th anniversary celebration activities, also revealed SAP companies to small and medium-sized business industry solutions (SMB-SmallMediumbusiness), which is another milestone in the process of SAP's 30-year history. Strategic initiatives, when some media reporters have asked this initiative to launch the epoch-making significance and the customer server architecture, the world-based product R / 3 is able to compare, math and physics doctoral, slightly inward Dr. Kong did not answer your front.
Why SAP is still unique in the high-end application field of profit, and the Fortune 500 more than 80% of the company applies SAP enterprise management solutions, such a big hand introduces solutions for small and medium-sized businesses SMB, SAP launched SMB in the end? ? If you want to open the fog, find the truth, you must understand the current competitive situation in the IT industry and the future development trend.
Eastern evil
Today's IT world, the group is hegemon, but it is really qualified to be a few swords in Huashan, IBM can be compared as the Wudang, the famous Mingmen, the famous manner, the internal strength, although there is also the possibility of fell alternation, but Jiangshan self Newcomers, as long as they constantly challenge themselves, although they are elephants but can dance. Microsoft's talents have passed the martial arts ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The synonym, Although Microsoft is extremely high, it is extremely high, but the enemy is countless, as long as it is an interested field, it is inevitable that the majority of the relevant fields will be killed, and the industry is called the West. Oracle's related book from Wudang, the related book (the theory of relational database is first proposed by IBM), and quickly leads the party, and is not tuning, the martial arts, famous door is disbed, and the West is more It is the water fire, the industry claims to be east evil. SAP's five founders were born in Wudang, but because of the crowds of the same brother, it is not satisfied with the binding of the rules, the standing portal. Under the point of view, 20 years of grinding swords, practicing the Dragon 18: (1993, SAP was established for 20 years, launched R / 3 system), from this rivers and lakes, low-key, martial arts superior heroes .
"No matter how good your products, you are always only 18 months from complete failure", Microsoft Chief Technology Nax Mike Michaeld, Oracle President Larry Ellison, "said" "For any company To put it to the opponent, it is destined to die.
Every industry giant has the dream of "a unified" world, in the fierce competitive IT world, who can become the last king?
Huashan tournament
The IT World eventually eligibles the guidelines, and the Square will be the "standard" formulator. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, in these four major hands, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle knows this, although SAP is slower, after all, the qualification is pure, the heart is not distracted, once practiced to the nine weighing realm, will also review the time , Fist, is surging.
Microsoft's formula method is to make a face that is familiar with you can't be familiar with. - Windows interface, when most personal applications are developed based on this face, Microsoft becomes the king of personal application software. Once someone tried to change this face, the result would inevitably, and kill innocent. Microsoft did not hesitate to use the bundled tactics that violate the federal monopoly bill, and killed the Internet browser of Netscape, using Office set software to defeat Lotus and WordPerfect.Oracle from the relational database, and keenly seized the continuous development of Internet technology. Bringing opportunities, with Sun launched the concept of network computing, Target Future Microsoft's monopoly, network computing and Java technology on personal application platform will make personal end users no longer rely on a particular platform, and the rules of the game will be re-established. For a new martial arts, the new martial arts will seem to be born. But Microsoft will not give up, Microsoft chooses the way to work closely with SAP, using SAP's brand advantage in high-end applications, by allowing SAP's core products R / 3 to make WindowsNT to get rid of low-end system shadows At the same time, the Microsoft's SQL Server database has initiated an attack to Oracle and IBM, using the Windows2000 operating system to replace SUN's UNIX-based enterprise and web server products. SAP is a company from the German town Waldov to the world, has been focusing on the development and application of the Germans' rigorous and persistent, due to the development and integration of its products, and continuous industry management Practice, strong flexible and configurable features, have been favored by more and more business customers, while SAP fully allows for their partners (hardware, system software, consulting companies, etc.), forming a commercial ecotry circle around SAP products, making More and more partners are willing to cooperate with it, SAP once became a pivotable leader in the business application.
SAP has been closely related to Oracle. The percentage of SAP application products run on Oracle's database has been in a very high position before Oracle launches its own application, but Oracle's CEO Lari Ellison will not only meet In the database field, the name is famous. With the launch of Oracle in the company management application, the 1999 Oracle has become the biggest competitor of SAP.
SAP and Microsoft's honeymoon have also been concluded, and Microsoft's next area of Microsoft is the company's application, Microsoft's leadership, and successfully changed the leaders of the "document processing leader to the leader of the set of office software. The company's application software can ultimately establish and ensure the continued growth of Microsoft's full line products. At the beginning of 2000, Microsoft's $ 1.5 billion in the purchase of crafting software manufacturer Vision; December 2000, Microsoft acquired US local medium-sized financial software company. On May 7, 2002, Microsoft acquired European small enterprise application software supplier Navision with $ 1.3 billion; in the long run, Microsoft hopes to take all corporate solutions to the door through the current .NET plan.
Shot hero
SAP needs to reposition your own strategy. Management application itself faces two difficulties. How to ensure the professionalization of industry while doing common chemistry, both of them must constantly cause the system, which is also Microsoft .NET Strategy Problems must face when enterprise solutions, how to resolve?
SAP launched a small-sized business solution SMB-Allinone in the industry subdivision. The essence of this solution is not a light SAP business platform. On the contrary, it is a SAP solution. It uses some SAP tradition Direct sales model, using partners based on SAP's overall platform mysap.b (ie, mysap.com), developing solutions for different industries and taking channel sales, such as: a Chinese partner, using SAP Industry Development Tool IndustrySolutionMapComposer, developed different industries (automotive parts, pharmaceutics, high-tech, retail distribution, etc.) -CSE (Agile Business Solutions) series of different industries, this product passed SAP. Strict certification, SAP will continue to develop business module components (buildingblock) above database platforms, partners, based on this component, constantly developing industry-oriented solutions according to specific needs of different industries, if you can have a lot of partners SAP-based module component development application software, SAP actually transforms from one application software developer to the application module component provider, thereby achieving the purpose of developing software development standards. SAP launched SMB-Allinone, SMB-Allinone, is a solution with SAP's overall business platform. It uses partners to customize industry custom development, most of the problems solved in specific projects, in advance in the product Realization, greatly shortening the implementation cycle and overall cost, making more customers, especially small and medium-sized enterprises that can apply such management platforms to provide their own core competitiveness. (Finish)
