Podcast: Jeff Nolan, SAP

24-10-2006

by Tom Raftery

In the first of a series of pre-conference podcasts Tom talks to some of the speakers in the upcoming 2006 IT@Cork Business and Technology conference. He talks to Jeff Nolan, recent former director of strategy in SAP's Apollo group.

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Jeff is a fount of knowledge in the enterprise software arena as well as the emerging Software as a Service software delivery model. Recently he also joined startup Teqlo.

Here are the questions Tom asked Jeff Nolan and their times during the interview:

Jeff, can you tell us about your background first off. How did you get into the whole tech arena? - 0:23

Audience questions:

Question from Craig Cmehil:

"Assemble your teqlo here at teqlo.com" and that would be? - 06:03

Question from Conor O'Neill:

Are there any current web 2.0 companies out there who currently target the general consumer that Jeff thinks could re-direct towards the enterprise or may in fact be more suited to the enterprise?

For example, one of the tensions within PubSub before it shut down was that some in the company wanted to keep in the consumer space whilst others thought that better opportunities lay with the enterprise - 10:03

Question from Dennis Howlett:

How far does he believe services will permeate the enterprise? - 16:44

What do you see as the main barriers to the adoption of Software as a Service in industry? - 19:25

What do you think will be the Tipping Point which will get Software as a Service into Enterprise? - 21:18

What do you see as the advantage of Software as a Service over traditional software? - 23:31

And finally, how hard was it to leave SAP after 10 years? - 25:04

Click for more details on the 2006 IT@Cork Business and Technology conference.

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