Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Better Place, which had developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. The company went bankrupt in 2013, having spent over $850 million while deploying less than 1000 cars...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 April 1968
CountryIsrael
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They didn't want to say up front, 'You're going to have to migrate from your software,' because those words would have created a tremor. Now it's been a year, and what they're saying is, We're not going to take that code, we're just going to take some of the ideas. You can't do automatic migrations because it's rewritten. If I'm looking at a whole new implementation, why is it going to Oracle?
larry quote smart
Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.
buying innovation process whom
It's not about who is buying whom in the industry, it's about process innovation.
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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.
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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.
happens
I don't know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road.
business instead money spending technical
Instead of spending money on technical integration, you'll spend money on business innovation.
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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.
stay
No one has said that we will only stay in that area.
anywhere forcing instead
Instead of forcing you into SAP, we let you use it anywhere you go, your way.
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They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM.... They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.
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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.
customers great
Sometimes it was great for the customers, sometimes it wasn't great for the customers.
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You need to begin by analyzing your business first. You have to assume you're on a treadmill and you have to integrate whatever comes your way.