PayPal’s developer conference in early November, the company’s first such event, gave some good lessons for tech companies that want to create their own developer communities. Since that seems to include most tech firms these days, we thought it might be helpful to point out some of the lessons, both positive and negative… The backstory. [...]
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Community!
Last Friday, I went to a party in Atherton and met two CEOs who used the word “community” as their secret sauce.
Shifting Business Models & What It Means For You
While SAP’s brand and development resources are enormous assets, SAP’s operations—the very way it does business—must be re-thought for BBD and the changes required for success are fundamental in every sense. SAP needs to re-think its sales, services, integration, support, development and revenue models. The enterprise sales force is too expensive to address mid-sized customers and the R/3 eco-system is ill-suited to address BBD deployment. Even the SaaS revenue stream will require major adjustments.