The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

During SAPPHIRE NOW’s day-two keynote, featuring SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe, the packed theater of attendees took to Twitter to tell a very compelling story. In short, SAP’s triple-threat of mobile, cloud and in-memory offerings is making waves. Re-visit the keynote Twitter conversation below and be sure to chime in with your own thoughts. (more…)

The volume of tweets put out by the audience listening to the keynote sessions at the SAP Influencer summit was so large, it was impossible to read them as the shot down the columns of  Tweetdeck.  The majority were entirely positive impressed at what they heard and saw of the three major planks of SAP product strategy - On Demand, On Device and In Memory. Being mostly hard-nosed analysts (is there any other type?) there were some tweets that suggested reservations about the need to deploy SAP HANA to provide real-time analytics and reporting in all situations – the debate about ‘real-time’ or ‘right-time.’ (more…)

Want to know more about in-memory computing and SAP HANA? Whether you are completely clueless about this whole “in-memory” thing or you’re the resident expert, you’ll likely find this collection of videos shot during SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando to be interesting and enlightening. Take a few minutes to get an inside look at this exciting new technology! (more…)

Comparing SAP HANA to what competitors are doing is like “comparing apples to cabbages,” says Dr. Jeff Word from SAP Labs in this short video from the SAPPHIRE NOW in-memory test-drive area. He goes on to explain the “classic innovators dilemma” faced by other database vendors that “are still stuck in the old world of running databases on disk.” Don’t miss this frank and insightful one-minute video. (more…)

In-memory computing technology and SAP HANA were hot topics at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando. Still not sure exactly what it is, though? Watch this short interview with Dr. Jeff Word from SAP Labs to get an easy to understand explanation of how SAP HANA and in-memory computing technology work and why it’s fundamentally changing the philospophy of how SAP develops sofware, allowing SAP to “build applications that were physically impossible a couple of years ago,” according to Jeff. (more…)

Dr. Jeff Word from SAP Labs talks about how customers are using SAP HANA software and in-memory computing  technology in their businesses right now, showcasing the real-life demos in the SAP HANA test-drive area at SAPPHIRE NOW from Orlando. “There’s no reason for customers to wait to get all the goodness and the power of [SAP] HANA,” says Jeff in this short but enlightening video. (more…)

I talked with Dr. Jeff Word from SAP Labs, who briefly explained what SAPPHIRE NOW attendees can see at the SAP HANA in-memory test-drive area. Demo stations showcase real applications running on technology from certified technology partners housed in the test-drive area. If you haven’t seen SAP HANA servers from tech partners Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Cisco, check out the video to get a first look. (more…)

I wrote a similar post on Forbes called “No matter what Stephen Hawkings says, God exists and He loves geeks“  this week — you will have to read it to see how it fits into SAP HANA. It does, I swear!  I was lucky enough to attend the SAP HANA InnoJam finals this week on Monday night at the Orlando Hilton conference center. The event whittled down from 625 great global ideas, to 48 regional finalists, to the final 12 competitors. (more…)

One of the big questions I’m hearing around SAPPHIRE NOW this year is whether SAP In-Memory Appliance software (SAP HANA) is still just a gleam in Hasso’s eye or whether it is ready for prime time. At a broadcast session on Monday, SAP Chief Scientist Ike Nassi was joined by two SAP HANA customers that talked about how the software has made their businesses run better. (more…)

I am struck by the natural cycles that occur again and again in life.  This scenario has played out countless times in our collective histories -

• We discover something, then
• Only a select few have it and get great gains from it, then
• Over time other people get it, then
• Everyone has it and it is no longer an advantage, so
• We go discover the next new thing (more…)