The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

The environment, health and safety (EHS) issues that certain industries (i.e. oil and gas, chemical) must adhere to are wide-reaching and complex.  So imagine the potential efficiencies that could be gleaned for safety managers if they had the ability to react to an environment or industrial issues in real-time, from a mobile device. Guess what? Atos, a global SAP partner and customer has devised a very impressive mobile app prototype that does just that, earning them a first place mobility showcase award at SAPPHIRE NOW from Madrid. (more…)

It was only five months ago that a team of people from Berlin’s Charité hospital met with a development group from SAP but quickly Charité saw an opportunity to improve patient care through mobile technology. In short order, the hospital became a pilot customer for the SAP Electronic Medical Record mobile app. Speaking at a panel discussion on The Mobilized Enterprise at SAPPHIRE NOW from Madrid, Martin Peuker, Charité’s CIO talked about the hospital’s vision of “personalized medicine” – a vision of enhancing the quality of patient treatment while making the clinical process more efficient. (more…)

By now we all know that mobility is one of the big stories this week at SAPPHIRE NOW. This is easy to understand. Phones and tablets are innovative, great for demos and becoming increasingly adopted in the enterprise. I’d like to add one more (tongue in cheek) observation to this list. (more…)

At SAPPHIRE NOW on Tuesday, a panel of enterprise IT administrators dished about their deployments of tablets and smartphones. There was some frank kvetching - even with good tools, it isn’t always easy to keep up with the challenges of securing and managing mobile devices – but the panelists were ultimately positive. (more…)

Speaking from SAPPHIRE NOW, Jason Rose of BI Solution Marketing at SAP has a few words to say about the business intelligence (BI) solutions that SAP released in February ??and why these solutions will become exponentially more mobile in the next couple of months. (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…)

SAP bought Sybase last year just weeks before SAPPHIRE NOW, so there was no time to bring a major mobile presence to the show. This year will be different, with SAPPHIRE NOW’s first-ever mobility campus. (more…)

SAP and its partners will present a broad spectrum of business solutions for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) at CeBIT 2011. This year, Booth A18 in Hall 5 will prominently feature SAP Business ByDesign, the integrated on-demand solution that offers user-focused innovations such as support for mobile devices, real-time reports and analysis, and customizable user interfaces.

A total of 29 partners will present SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies, including SAP Business All-in-One, software for midsize companies with deep industry-specific capabilities, as well as SAP Business One for small companies and SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. Read the press release.

It wasn’t a surprise to see this prediction in CIO.com’s top 10 business predictions for 2011: “Real-time analytics will define and drive the real-time organization. As analytics is layered onto the megatrends of cloud, mobile and social, its capacity to create real-time businesses becomes closer than it appears.” In the social arena, Twitter plans to release a real-time analytics dashboard (possibly for free). Tweeters will be able to see what messages have a high number of retweets and conversely which ones don’t catch on.

What’s assumed in the prediction is that analytics goes hand-in-hand with the data on which it is based – and not just that the data enables the analytics. This assumption was made explicit during the SME breakout session at the SAP Influencer Summit.

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