SAP Eyes Internet of Things with New Partnerships TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and Emerging Technology) German software company SAP has announced a bunch of new partnerships that the company hopes will better position it to get involved in the Internet of Things, according to a Trefis Team article in Forbes. The partnerships are with T-Systems, Jasper, and the Industrial Internet…
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SAP S/4HANA: The Complexity Antidote TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and Emerging Technology) At the time it seemed like a great idea. Take a standard enterprise software package and then add some custom code to enhance functionality or adapt it to work with an existing process or system. As McKinsey noted in a 2014 report, “Large global organizations have created so…
3 Ways The Social Age Will Inspire Your Business TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and Emerging Technology) The Industrial Age is dead. Social media has arrived. Everything has changed. And I had no idea what I was doing. In early 2014, I was a social media neophyte peering down over the edge into the vast social sea. If I wanted to…
Holiday Analytics – Why Retail Should be Checking TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and Emerging Technology) Santa Claus has it easy. Sure, the jolly man in red must create and deliver presents to children across the globe. But he already knows exactly what each kid wants, and even has a month or two to deliver. Those are huge advantages. Unlike Saint…
Is the Automobile Emerging as the Fourth Screen? TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and Emerging Technology) There are many observers who believe that the automobile will emerge as a “fourth screen” – behind TV, computers/tablets and smartphones. This is in part due to the impending autonomous capability that is coming to vehicles over the next decade. It was recently estimated…
Data Glasses: SAP Goes Wearable TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and Emerging Technology) Data Glasses: SAP Goes Wearable Google’s Project Glass smart glasses initiative is generating a lot of excitement among technology enthusiasts. Now SAP and Vuzix have teamed up to create augmented reality glasses, showing that they are not just for consumers but for manufacturers, logistics companies, and service technicians…
Is SAP HANA a Luxury? TAKE NOTE(Insights into SAP solutions and EmergingTechnology) For SAP, it may be a billion-dollar question: is HANA a luxury like a Porsche or a Dior Dress? Or is it simply a better approach that could and should be appropriate for all SAP’s customers? Today, as SAP customer Steve Rumsby puts it: “The problem seems to be…
SAP Customers Scratching Their Heads over HANA TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and Emerging Technology) Despite years of hype, some SAP customers remain puzzled over how the vendor’s Hana in-memory computing platform can fit into their IT strategies, a newly released survey from the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group has found. Fifty-five percent of 377 survey respondents asked whether their company has…
Predictions – The Future Of The Networked Economy TAKE NOTE(Insights into SAP solutions and EmergingTechnology) The networked economy is developing – we are already connected to just about anyone with Internet access using a simple keystroke. We have devices, social networks and business networks, and we leverage the idea of sharing to collaborate and use more, but make less. Our…
SAP’s Bill McDermott: We Can’t Let Complexity Win! TAKE NOTE(Insights into SAP solutions and EmergingTechnology) At SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW event in Orlando, Florida, SAP CEO Bill McDermott introduced a bold, new SAP to more than 25,000 in-person and 250,000 virtual attendees during his opening keynote. With a new mantra of “Run Simple,” SAP now has its sights set on eliminating “complexity sprawl” that…
