{"id":714,"date":"2006-09-13T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=714"},"modified":"2006-09-13T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T18:04:55","slug":"cote-blogs-from-sap-teched-introduces-the-spherical-cow-development-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/cote-blogs-from-sap-teched-introduces-the-spherical-cow-development-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote Blogs from SAP TechEd, introduces the &#8220;Spherical Cow Development&#8221; concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The New Services Platform\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/archives\/2006\/09\/sap_teched_2006_1.html\">People Over Process: SAP TechEd 2006: The New Services Platform<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you that are monkchips readers but don&#8217;t follow Cote, but are interested in what SAP is saying, I suggest you head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/archives\/2006\/09\/sap_teched_2006_1.html\">PeopleoverProcess<\/a> for some nice SAP mindmaps and coverage. <\/p>\n<p>Props to Bill Wohl, Jeff Nolan and Michael Prosceno. Cote says:  &#8220;In summary, this is definitely he first time I&#8217;ve come to a conference and felt like a blogger who&#8217;s an analyst instead of an analyst who blogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/archives\/2006\/09\/sap_teched_2006_1.html\">The New Services Platform<\/a> &#8220;One of the more interesting aspects is what I&#8217;m increasingly thinking of as the spherical cow model of software adoption: changing the organization to align with what the software provides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/archives\/2006\/09\/sap_teched_2006.html\">All Coffeed Up<\/a> &#8220;I had an odd enterprisey experience on the plane up from Austin. After I told her that I was on the way to SAP TechEd, the lady sitting next to me &#8212; who was quite nice &#8212; told me that she uses SAP at work. &#8220;I love it!&#8221; she said. As I recall, she even said something along the lines of, &#8220;man, that SAP\/R3 does everything.&#8221; She was on the way to another conference, unrelated to her SAP-using day-job as a hospital finance administrator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cote also provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/archives\/2006\/09\/links_for_20060_118.html\">links<\/a> to help you find other blogger coverage from the show (be more competitive by being less competitive)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People Over Process: SAP TechEd 2006: The New Services Platform For those of you that are monkchips readers but don&#8217;t follow Cote, but are interested in what SAP is saying, I suggest you head on over to PeopleoverProcess for some nice SAP mindmaps and coverage. Props to Bill Wohl, Jeff Nolan and Michael Prosceno. Cote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-bw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}