SAP Analytics customers have a new way to purchase products, and SAP has a clever way to get us kids to eat our vegetables (so to speak). eric.vallo, jamie.oswald and I sat down with jayne.landry2, who's job title is hard to fit on a business card, to talk about the new licensing strategy of Bundles.
Head on over to DSLayer.net and download the podcast, and serve it up with a heapin' helpin' of show notes:
00:30 - Intros and bromance
01:20 - Some good chuckles about Jayne's long job title
02:00 - What's a Bundle?
02:30 - Janye gives a history lesson on now license bundles came to be
03:15 - We like to eat elephant
04:20 - An Analytics smoothie
05:00 - Who is the target market for analytics bundles?
05:40 - A shout-out to tammy.datri and her enthusiasm for EDGE
07:30 - Sad reality that we can't put the whole BI suite on a PC under our desk
08:00 - First mention of Visual Intelligence
08:30 - Greg reminisces about the time he had to choose Microsoft over SAP
10:00 - Jamie is curious about packages. Industry packages, that is.
11:00 - Jayne relays how a partner did a happy dance in her office
12:00 - Jamie speculates about the addition of database tech into the bundle
13:30 - Mobi gets some love
13:40 - Jamie blows the lid off of the Afaria inclusion into the Bundle
15:60 - How does all of this go over in other markets like APJ?
17:50 - Discussion of the Concurrent Session Based License (CSBL)
19:00 - Rounding out the offering?
20:00 - Predictive gets some love
21:15 - Wrap-ups and parting comments
