Glad to help you out and share what I have learned. And I agree, SAP HANA is a priority today for the company, and the implications on customer and predictive analytics are significant for that platform. CRM will be even more important in the future as HANA gains critical mass in terms of customers and applications. Be sure to watch what happens at Sapphire this week as well http://www.sapandasug.com/

Likewise, have an excellent weekend as well.

Regards,

Louis

I also think with SAP HANA in the market, SAP will grow better and will establish larger customer base. These customer will also prefer SAP CRM due to seamless integration of different SAP solutions and products with each other.

Thanks again for your kind word and I surely contact back to you in future for help as needed.

Have a great weekend!

Regards,
Nilesh

Indeed, the first ten to fifteen minutes of writing an interesting start to a blog post is hard work I think for every writer. Sometimes the ideas for a good start of the post just happen – but that is rare.

I like to think about the readers and what they need, what would help them. And then I try to see the reader as a person I know and I write to them. When a reader becomes the focus of my writing it is much easier to decide which points to leave in, and which to leave out. And my writing moves much faster too. Thinking of the audience and what their needs are also brings a very active voice to your writing too.

Second I believe in outlining posts and articles. It helps to break it up, makes it less intimidating to write. You can write in short bursts by subsection as you have time.

Third, get a ton of research on the area you are writing about and share it all with the reader.

Those are the three ideas I usually go by. I wish you all the best, writing is great fun and serving readers with information is really interesting too. You get to learn a lot back from them as well.

Good luck,

Louis

Thanks for your kind words and for reading my blog. I think pursuing the goal of being an SAP CRM functional consultant is an excellent idea. While Salesforce.com is the market share leader right now, SAP is doing all it can to accelerate the next generation of CRM applications. What’s great about standardizing on them is their significant installed base. You’ll be able to find SAP customers across dozens of industries, and many of them will need your help with their CRM strategies. And SAP is also moving very quickly into mobility-based CRM as well, along with their cloud-based efforts. All of those factors add up to a strong foundation for future growth for your career.

Glad to help you out and please let me know however I can assist you in the future.

Best Regards,

Louis

Thanks for writing this blog and posting a consolidated report here. I was exactly seeking this kind of report and analysis to make a decision to move my career to CRM Functional consultant. I am planning to choose SAP CRM functional consulting for future and was looking to see what is the prediction for future of SAP CRM.. with your analysis and figures from Gartner report, It seems that the SAP CRM will not lead a list but will be among the top players in future..so the choice of moving to SAP CRM won’t be wrong… Could you guide me if I am missing something.
Thanks and best regards,
Nilesh

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and for your comment. I included only those hardware vendors including Cisco and EMC who derive a large percentage e of their revenues from the cloud. IBM, who is showing all signs of exiting the hardware business after their latest quarter, wasn’t included due to that dynamic occurring right now. Only a minority of their hardware revenues are cloud-based as well.

In the future I plan on adding in P/E ratio analysis in addition to revenue analysis by segment, to further add precision to the index.

Thanks again and best regards,

Louis