With approximately 80,000 people tuning in digitally around the world, SAP’s board of executives preached to a near 100,000 strong crowd in Florida — and the message could not have been clearer; it believes HANA is the future of business.
Unstructured data: Can you crack the code?
A simple motive for code cracking has always been the benefits of what lies beneath the complexity. As with the universe-load …
SAP to acquire e-commerce player hybris to target ‘consumer economy’
Enterprise software giant SAP has announced plans to acquire e-commerce player hybris in an attempt to further expand its reach …
SAP shakes up development organisation
SAP has abruptly reorganised its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and …
IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics
Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in …
VMware launches network-savvy cloud service
VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from …
SAP launches Fiori, announces partnership with Google for Chrome published applications
SAP today announced the release of SAP Fiori, a set of 25 easy-to-use applications for the most frequently used transactions, …
Your best friend’s perfect girlfriend
Thousands upon thousands of attendees rolled into the Sunshine State yesterday for the opening day of the Sapphire Now conference …
SAP launches Afaria mobile management in the cloud
From today, SAP is offering its Afaria mobile management solution in the cloud, hosted on Amazon AWS, for only €1 …
‘Smart, speed, secure’ – SAP delivers opening Sapphire message
Co-CEO Bill McDermott raised the roof of the Orange County Convention Center in Florida today during the opening keynote of …
HP announces Converged Systems business, unifies server divisions
Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it has created a business unit that will deal in purpose-built systems based on specific applications …
SAP’s first quarter: The key questions
SAP will announce its first-quarter 2013 earnings on Friday, a report that will get heavy scrutiny from company watchers. Here’s …
Cloud boosts SAP revenue, despite demand drop in Asia
By John Ribeiro and Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service. SAP reported strong growth in cloud subscription and support revenue in …
Proper planning
As any CeBit visitor knows, it’s impossible to navigate the vast trade show without coming up with a decent plan. …
African bank launches continental data platform
The African Development Bank Group this week announced the launch of what it calls an open data platform in 20 …
Redington Value to distribute VMware in Africa
Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, has been appointed as a VMware distributor in WECA, marking a …
New kid on the block
Qais Gharaibeh, UAE Managing Director, SAP MENA
ICANN eyes Africa strategy
ICANN’s CEO and President, Fadi Chehadé, was at the group’s Multistakeholder Internet Governance meeting in Africa this week with the …
SAP brings focus to Ariba at CeBit
After 12 successive quarters of double-digit growth at SAP, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has pinned his future hopes on the …
Big data analytics steals the show in Vegas
With the hundreds of conferences that CPI Technology attends, we get a very good grasp of the major themes and …