Analyst Profile
Ruediger Spies
Independent Vice President, Enterprise Applications
Based in Munich, Ruediger Spies focuses on developments and trends in the extended enterprise applications market (e.g., ERP, CRM), information agenda (e.g., BI/BA, content management, knowledge worker environments, etc.), related architectures and delivery models (e.g., SOA, cloud/SaaS), intellectual property management, and open source. In this role, Spies provides strategic advice to both the IT vendor and end-user communities.
Before joining IDC, Spies was an analyst/executive advisor with Experton Group. Prior to this, he was vice president, enterprise applications, global lead SAP analyst, and territory lead analyst for Central and Eastern Europe at META Group.
Spies has gained extensive experience in the last 28 years in the management of international enterprises and on the technological side, where he concentrated mainly on the enterprise applications market, and he was also an expert on Internet technologies and infrastructure strategies. In addition, Spies has detailed strategic know-how in IT/business alignment, project organization/management, and quality management. He has also worked for EDS/A.T. Kearney, Informix, and IBM in Germany, France, England, and the U.S., as well as GEI, which is now part of T-Systems.
Spies has built a reputation as being one of the most influential IT opinion makers in Germany, has published countless professional articles, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and conventions. He is also co-author of several books about CRM.
Spies studied physics at the University of Hamburg and electrical engineering at the University of Aachen. He has been a patent attorney since 2007.
Research Authored by Ruediger Spies
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SAPPHIRE NOW 2010: SAP Broadens Offerings and Sets Out a Road Map for an In-Memory Future
Henry D. Morris, Bo Lykkegaard, Mary Wardley, Robert Parker, Ruediger Spies, Stephen D. Drake, Praveen Sengar, Gard Little, Kimberly Knickle, Michael Fauscette, Alan Tong, Ricardo Villate, Brian McDonough, Mariana Zamoszczyk, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Raymond Boggs
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223698
Vendor Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile presents a review of SAP's user conference, SAPPHIRE NOW 2010.
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