By R "Ray" Wang on May 13, 2012
SAP’s In The Midst Of Massive Transformation Just four years ago, nervous attendees dealt with a tumultuous global market entering financial crisis. SAP’s management team decided to raise maintenance fees to shore up its margins amidst a drought of innovation. Customers revolted en masse. Policies changed due to user group and global influencer pressure. [...]
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By Dennis Moore on September 24, 2011
SAP HANA has garnered a great deal of attention in recent weeks and months. For an overview of the technology and its potential, please check my recent blog on the subject, “The real (potential) impact of SAP HANA.” Since that blog was written, there has been a great deal of news in the SAP HANA [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 3, 2011
Summit Brings A Cadre Of Thought Leaders To User Group Attendees The SAP Australian User’s Group held their annual summit once again at the Sydney Convention Centre in Darling Harbour from August 2 to August 4th. With a record 650 attendees, the keynotes covered many of the hot topics about SAP ownership, road maps, and [...]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 10, 2011
I am enjoying In-Memory Data Management- An Inflexion Point for Enterprise Applications – SAP kindly sent me an advance copy of the book by Dr. Hasso Plattner and Alexander Zeier. I am also watching Vishal Sikka, SAP’s CTO present this morning at its “New Reality” event in Boston talk about in-memory, mobility, clouds – as [...]
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By Sandy Kemsley on February 9, 2011
A group of bloggers had an update today from Steve Lucas, GM of the SAP business analytics group, covering what happened in 2010 and some outlook and strategy for 2011. No surprise, they saw an explosion in growth in 2010: analytics has been identified as a key competitive differentiator for a couple of years now [...]
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By Merv Adrian on September 20, 2010
IBM’s bid to acquire Netezza makes it official; the insurgents are at the gates. A pioneering and leading ADBMS player, Netezza is in play for approximately $1.7 billion or 6 times earnings. When it entered the market in 2001, it catalyzed an economic and architectural shift with an appliance form factor at a dramatically different [...]
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By Merv Adrian on August 22, 2010
SAP co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe and Sybase CEO John Chen keynoted a two-continent event on August 19 to demonstrate their solidarity and provide an early look at strategic plans. Many analysts greeted the initial announcement with positive reviews – mine is here, and Noel Yuhanna of Forrester weighed in here. Progress since [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 8, 2010
SAUG Summit Delivered Great Networking Opportunities And Information Exchange
Over 550 attendees converged on Sydney August 3rd to 5th, 2010 for the annual SAP User Group Summit. Members were treated to 28 session, 7 keynotes, and 4 SAP 101 educational sessions. The smart design of the conference gave attendees ample opportunities to connect and share ideas [...]
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By Merv Adrian on July 14, 2010
Oracle’s newest BI release is massive, spans multiple product categories, and raises the bar for competitors in dramatic fashion. In my prior post I focused on its rollout and competitive posture. The market has waited a long time as the reconciliation of many moving parts was accomplished – most notably the convergence of the Hyperion [...]
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By Merv Adrian on July 13, 2010
Oracle is not first in BI, and wants to change that – that was the clear message of a well executed, multi-site “real plus virtual” event with top executives showing off the result of a multi-year effort to rationalize and integrate a set of leading but overlapping components into a seamless suite. Oracle Business Intelligence [...]
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