Enterprise Cloud Computing Track at Cloud Expo

Taking their new act on the road, SAP's new co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe - in their second public appearance since getting the job last month - told a press conference in Silicon Valley Monday that the company's problem-beset, taken-off-the-market SaaS product Business ByDesign will be relaunched in July following a forced redesign.

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Its developers, now apparently invested with more personal authority, started using agile software techniques that cut the team by a third - and with fewer cooks stirring the pot - code quality has reportedly improved.

It's still taking longer to get to market than SAP planned.

It'll be a 2.5 version that wends its way to market. SAP means to update it every five weeks once it appears.

The company apparently has huge SaaS and hybrid cloud ambitions but it's coming from behind.

The boys, who pretend not to be the least bit impressed with Oracle's roll-up strategy, claim their chief rival's buy-it-all-from-us approach is completely last century. They want to run on any device including mobile gismos.