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
alignment available blueprint bring building community customers delivery ecosystem enabling enterprise expect foundation happening innovative life mutual partner platform process provider sap services shift solution solve thousands timely together wave win
With this new wave of partner alignment around enterprise services, we expect to bring thousands of enterprise services to life for our mutual customers through community collaboration, ... Customers win when the ecosystem collaborates on a timely delivery of innovative technologies that solve deployment and integration issues. This architectural shift is happening now, and SAP is the only solution provider to bring together an enterprise-scale blueprint with ESA, an enabling platform in SAP NetWeaver, an available repository of more than 500 enterprise services, and now with Enterprise Services Community Process, a foundation of a collaborative process for building enterprise services.
ability employees grow looking number potential users versus
We have the potential ability to grow fourfold by looking at the number of employees in a corporation versus the number of users that are professional users of SAP.
core edge people process risk
People will take more risk with edge process than core processes.
buy company ecosystem
You don't need to go out and buy every company out there. You need an ecosystem for co-innovation.
buying innovation process whom
It's not about who is buying whom in the industry, it's about process innovation.
anywhere forcing instead
Instead of forcing you into SAP, we let you use it anywhere you go, your way.
business instead money spending technical
Instead of spending money on technical integration, you'll spend money on business innovation.
believe flexible platform single solutions top unified
We believe that you need a single unified platform on top of which you can make as many flexible solutions as you want.
model money successful systematic understand
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.
buzz great looks marc noise planet trying
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.
continuous customer full information needed options picture strategic
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.
automatic created looking migrations saying words
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?
allow backbone blocks building others rather scale top
This isn't about assembling Lego blocks but rather about building a backbone that can scale and that can allow others to build on top of it.
architecture based build enterprise services
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.