The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Today at SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP announced the delivery of a new SAP Sales and Operations Planning application. What does this mean for today’s complex, global supply networks? (more…)

ORLANDO — SAP today announced advanced support and integration with Hadoop environments including an expanded “big data” partner council and customer showcases. These “big data” integration capabilities are planned in SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward software with the release of service pack 4 for the SAP HANA platform. (more…)

ORLANDO — The McLaren Group, known for its Grand Prix racing team and iconic Formula 1 cars, will integrate its growing portfolio of businesses using solutions from SAP as its technology backbone. (more…)

If you’re a beer drinker, you’ll no doubt recall the days of yore when it was next to impossible to find the tasty craft beer Blue Moon. As a small outfit, Blue Moon lacked the distribution power of the big boys. Retailers, in turn, had a tough time keeping it in stock. Fans lost out. (more…)

“Here’s to all our futures that we are going to create together.” This lasting sentiment from the convincingly powerful speech given by Gabriel Byrne at SAPPHIRE NOW in 2011 brought us back to some of his most popular films including “The Usual Suspects,” “End of Days” and “Stigmata.”  His visionary approach focused on the possibilities of SAP HANA in the future (specifically 2015) and mentions making the possible probable.  (more…)

Leading up to SAPPHIRE NOW from Orlando in 2012, the “Taking Advantage of Planning and Consolidation Software Powered by SAP HANA” demo theater session has been one of the most downloaded sessions on the Agenda Builder. Why so much interest? (more…)

I joined a virtual meeting yesterday at which I was able to fly around a 3-D rendering of the show floor at SAPPHIRE NOW from Orlando. Wow! We flew the camera around the Database & Technology campus, which I am managing for the event. Three things struck me that I think will make this year’s event even better than 2011. (more…)

SAP welcomes visitors to experience the world of SAP on its newly designed and largest ever stand in Hall 4. Read further for a closer look at the press and analyst program on site at CeBIT 2012 in Hanover, Germany. (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…)

SAP’s 2-day 2011 Influencer Summit kicked off today. Around 130 influencers gathered to get first hand information from our SAP executives regarding the core, SAP HANA (in-memory), mobility and cloud strategies. This year, I’m the social ambassador for SAP HANA and technology; I followed the keynotes and sessions and will give you a brief overview of what was happening on Day 1. (more…)