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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What I was trying to get to was the whole enterprise social network. The impact of social sharing behavior inside the enterprise is a relatively new phenomenon. It’s probably five years old, right? Sameer Patel: It’s actually 2006, so seven years. Sramana Mitra: Maybe seven years for the early adopters but five years
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You said you were going to do a couple more customer examples. Are you going to do one from the CRM side? Let’s hear about the deal cycle optimization. Sameer Patel: CRM will be an interesting scenario. There’s a customer,Kaiser Compressor, who are a large manufacturing organization in Europe. Kaiser was going through
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: If I were looking at the multi-vision and the psychology of what’s happening, if there’s an incentive to create content and knowledge, and then you get credit in your appraisals and promotions. Those are the more direct psychological incentives, I think. Sameer Patel: I agree. Again, we haven’t spent enough time looking at
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The one thing that I haven’t heard you talk about in this whole picture is the incentives for the employees to create this kind of knowledge. That must be part of the system, right? Sameer Patel: That’s a really good point. In the last few weeks, we met some pretty big investments in
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: In the example that you gave us about training, you talked about crowd sourcing through videos of enterprise tips and knowledge. That’s essentially the use skills that you described. It sounds like the real power of the system that you are trying to develop is both providing the employees and the enterprise the
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 1)
SAP plans to step-up business integration a notch further with an extension to SAP Jam that aims to deliver personalized information to enhance organizational productivity. Join us in this interview with SAP’s Senior VP and GM, Sameer Patel, as he gives us a blow-by-blow account on this new addition to its arsenal and other latest
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy VP for Ariba (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How does a new small company entering in this system break through? We are seeing a huge amount of usage of these services exchanges – Elance, oDesk, etc. – and one thing we always hear from small companies is when they start transacting and selling on those exchanges, it takes them a long
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy VP for Ariba (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Talk about that a little bit. Our community is full of small companies. If they want to try out the Ariba network, what would you advise them to do? Tim Minahan: I would invite them to go and get discovered with a service on the network we call Ariba Discovery. It is at
