Cloud impact: SAP changes upgrade and maintenance policies
SAP released a short, but significant, press release describing changes to the upgrade policies on the company’s flagship Business Suite product. The policy changes will benefit customers and appear to be an SAP reaction to market expectations shaped by cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) vendors. From the SAP press release: SAP plans to [...]
Ten strategies for making the "Big Leap" to next-gen mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data
Summary: The “Big Five” IT trends are in the midst of making their impact felt in organizations around the world. Is this is a significant chance for IT to drive innovation and business agility at long last, or will the impact of these be the undoing of the classical era of IT? Here are some of [...]