Sramana Mitra: Yes, I understand that the business partners play a part there. I guess my question was going deeper into that scenario and asking if Google App engine is playing a role in that integration scenario. Klaus-Michael Vogelberg: Yes. There are not many alternatives out there at the moment, are there? SM: That is
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Very interesting! This gives me a lot of insight into how a major ISV that caters to millions of SME customers is thinking about cloud computing deployment and managing all the integration elements and so forth. Now, how are the Sage partners ramping up in
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Now, Klaus, what is going to be the usage model for all these businesses? There are millions of SME customers, and yes, there is a distinctive move [toward cloud computing and SaaS right now]. I am hearing it from many parts of the ecosystem that
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Klaus-Michael Vogelberg: So, again, we first look at interoperability standards. The next step is to think about what kind of services we require, and then it comes down to the question, Are we in category 1 or 2 or 3 which we have just talked about? We next
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Let’s get back to what you do. So, if I understood correctly, one of your big value prepositions to the ERP world is compliance and having a good handle on all the different tax laws in various countries. You push all the updates and changes
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: What is the architecture of your offering? Sage has been around for a long time, so I am sure you are coming from the older shrink-wrap software architectures and client server architectures. Where you today, and what is the status of cloud computing adoption and