The changes unveiled Tuesday at SAP's Sapphire Now conference are the first significant moves taken by Lars Dalgaard, who was put in charge of the vendor's cloud computing efforts in February.

Most successful technology products find an early niche or two — specific pain points the product serves especially well. By proving themselves in these initial beachheads, they gain the traction to ...

I know plenty of SAP watchers who don't take SAP Business ByDesign seriously. Perhaps they think ByDesign's notorious early struggles render the solution irrelevant. Well, think again. Why should we ...