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The HANA Deployment Question — SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe Responds
The marketing frenzy behind SAP’s HANA in-memory database has engendered a counter-frenzy over the total number of HANA deployments to date. With all the muscle that SAP has been putting behind its new...
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SAP’s Sustainability announcements at Sapphire Now
SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe at Sapphire Now 2012 Technology innovation plays a major part in creating a sustainable world tomorrow So said SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe at this year’s SAP Sapphire...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-24
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past two weeks. Oracle America sales head leaves after trashtalking Mark Hurd and HP online. Larry buys Lanai. Oracle wins nothing in...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-30
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean vs Apple iOS 6 vs Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft gets kudos for tablets and mobile strategy. RIM...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-06
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Plagues cause Cloud outages Dell is buying Quest Software. The “Toad” company. Oracle loses another court case, this one...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-15
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Man Bites Dog: Cloud Services More Reliable SAP posts strong results in a preview of Q2, but warn employees to cut spending so...
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SAP more of the same
I tend to not pay too much attention to quarterly earnings – whether they are good or bad. But my friend Dennis Howlett says “SAP’s Q2 results are stunning by any standards” and I decided to apply my...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-30
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Apple Phanboyz Apple sales slip as phanboyz wait for a new iPhone. Apple is still, however, generating almost as much cash as...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-08-20
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past few weeks: Facebook’s stock? Many more details emerge about Microsoft’s upcoming “Surface” tablet. Will Microsoft Office...
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SAP Startup Forum Berlin
Last week I had a chance to attend the SAP Startup Forum in Berlin, it was a first for SAP in Berlin so it was a really interesting experience! Several startups from all over Germany were present and...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-09-15
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past few weeks: Dreamforce, Dreamforce, Dreamforce: Coming this week to San Francisco, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce show will feature...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-15
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past few weeks: Workday Rising Workday opens up to a huge, successful IPO ($WDAY) reestablishing the enterprise software and...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-21
Go Giants! Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past week: Lots of activity in the mobility world – Apple seems to have set the date for the iPad mini (this Tuesday,...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04
We invented it Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its...
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So you want to be a (big) data hero?
Listen to tech vendors and the tool – HANA or Hadoop – is guaranteed to make you a data hero. Watch IBM commercials and each of their employees must already be a data hero. Data heroes are elusive,...
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SAP and HANA: 5 Points of advice for CIOs
SAP’s future is a combination of hardware and software, called HANA (high performance analytical appliance), which can process large volumes of data orders of magnitude faster than anything else the...
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The SAP Business Suite and HANA
Most folks using procurement technology would rather not get into the underlying bits and bytes of technology architecture, let alone the nuances of database technology. For the most part this makes...
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SAPPHIRENOW Vishal Sikka Keynote – HANA For Speed, Fiori For Usability
Vishal Sikka, who leads technology and innovation at SAP, followed Hasso Platner onto the keynote stage; I decided to break the post and publish just Plattner’s portion since my commentary was getting...
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The real SAP / Sapphire story
Last week, SAP made a number of technology announcements; rebutted rumors and competitive disinformation; and, threw a pretty good party for thousands of customers and partners. When vendors craft the...
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SAP, SAP, Wherefore Art Thou SAP?
SAP Founders 1988 — Klaus Tschira On The Left I’ve always had a warm spot in my heart for SAP. When I published my first (and thus far only) 700+ page book in 1994 (“Human Resource Management and...
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