The SAP Business Suite and HANA
Most folks using procurement technology would rather not get into the underlying bits and bytes of technology architecture, let alone the nuances of database technology. For the most part this makes sense, though we’d argue that for systems integration, a lot of incremental business value in the P2P and services procurement areas can be derived [...]
News Analysis: SAP Business Suite on HANA
In a global announcement in Palo Alto, New York and Frankfurt, SAP’s top executives Dr. Vishal Sikka, Rob Enselin, Jim Haggeman Snabe, and legendary founder and chairman Dr. Hasso Plattner announced availability of SAP’s Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. SAP has rewritten the Business Suite to work on SAP’s HANA platform and believes that [...]
SAP and HANA: 5 Points of advice for CIOs
SAP’s future is a combination of hardware and software, called HANA (high performance analytical appliance), which can process large volumes of data orders of magnitude faster than anything else the company offers. The potential applications of HANA are numerous and include examples such as: Real-time adjustments of airline ticket prices based on moment-by-moment shifts [...]
What Are the Killer Apps for SAP HANA and Other In-Memory Computing Systems?
In a previous blog, I argued that SAP HANA (and in-memory computing) had the potential to bring a number of benefits to enterprises in the short term, including:elimination of lag time between data capture in the operational system and its availability…
Is SAP HANA Right For You (Now)?
As mentioned in my previous post, SAP HANA has been the focus of much of SAP’s technical and marketing communications of late, and has been of great interest to the influencer community (see these excellent posts by John Appleby (@applebyj) and Vijay Vijayasankar (@vijayasankarv) for example). Many SAP customers with whom I spoke recently are [...]
Event Report: SAUG Summit 2011 Days 1 & 2 Show A Shift From SAP Centricity
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 [...]
Analyzing The Real News Stories of Sapphire Now 2011, Part One: The Impact Of HANA
It’s becoming a tradition: a reporter pulls me aside at the end of an SAP show and asks, “There wasn’t really much news, was there?” No, and yes. BI 4.0 excepted, the most compelling SAP software releases of 2011 are looking like fall/winter timeframes. But there was plenty of “real news” to be found at [...]
SAP’s In-memory Hana Database Appliance Gets Apped
The old canard the SAP is not an innovator took another hit this week with the partial unveiling of a new set of applications built to run on top of SAP’s Hana in-memory database system. The new apps, due out in a set of rolling releases thus year, fill an important gap in SAP’s Hana [...]
