SAP's Sapphire conference features some great presentations, (with slides and online video), particularly from successful implementations of large scale SAP Enterprise Systems.

Whether you are a large scale company or a medium sized or small organisation, whether you use SAP or not, there are lessons to be learnt from implementations made by other organisations. The same issues must be worked through:

• Change Management
• Strategic Planning
• Alignment of the Business and IT
• Moving from Silos of data to a single source of truth
• How to embrace web services and much more...

It is a great way to learn how other organisations address these issues.
This year you can attend Sapphire online by registering at http://www.sapphirenow.com/

With the downturn in the economy may businesses are looking to cut costs and save time. One of the simplest ways to do this is through remote desktop / screen-sharing collaboration service technology, or web-conferencing.

Many organisations are familiar with this technology, particularly the Web-Ex product. However there are a number of players in the market some with price points more suited to small business.

If you are not already conducting remote meetings for sales, marketing, customer service and support we suggest you check out these applications. If you are already conducting remote meetings maybe now is th time to review which application best suits your needs.

www.webex.com - a range of pricing plans starting from circa US$49 per month
www.gotomeeting.com  - US$49 per month
www.yuuguu.com  - Free (costs for voice conference)
www.glance.net  - US$49 per month, $9.95 for one off meetings
www.beamyourscreen.com  - beginning at Eur30 per month
www.teamviewer.com - US$249 per month