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Design Thinking, the methodology of customer-centric ideation and prototyping, has become a major development principle at SAP. At SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd, attendees were able to experience firsthand exactly how the company brings design thinking to life. (more…)

Companies of all sizes have been discussing mobile use cases for quite some time now. Until recently, Microsoft has largely been left out of the equation. At SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd, however, SAP made a strong move with its announcement of six business apps for Windows 8. (more…)

Among this week’s most significant news at SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd  Madrid, was the announcement of the winners of “The Power of Small: Entrepreneurs Strengthening Local Economies” global competition. (more…)

At first sight, SAP HANA doesn’t have a whole lot to do with New York City. Here in Madrid, however, it does – with the interactive three-dimensional map that motivates visitors to SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd to test the possibilities of in-memory technology. (more…)

MADRID — SAP continues to deliver on its innovation agenda and today announced a new wave of solutions that leverage the power of the SAP HANA platform to help businesses transform their industry and derive new actionable value. (more…)

MADRID — To support partners in the development of cloud-based packaged applications, SAP today unveiled the SAP NetWeaver Cloud Applications Partner program. (more…)

MADRID — SAP today announced that 20 startups from the SAP Startup Focus program have signed commercial agreements to go productive with the SAP HANA One platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). (more…)

MADRID — SAP today announced it has enhanced its preferred strategic collaboration with VMware to help customers gain value from key transformational technologies by supporting VMware vSphere 5.1 for test and development use on the SAP HANA platform. (more…)

Demo Jam is one of the highlights of every SAP TechEd and a must-attend for (wannabe) techies. This time in Madrid, seven teams competed, their demos ranged from garbage collection with SAP NetWeaver Cloud to a BlackBerry PlayBook app for local communities. The winner: 3D Kinect-based reporting on SAP HANA. (more…)

MADRID — SAP today announced the SAP HANA platform support pack 5 (SPS5)  with additional capabilities for diverse mission-critical applications. SAP HANA will collapse the architectural layers between application and data processing and converge database and application services in a single in-memory-based architecture. (more…)