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…
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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…
Is your SAP project – ‘livin on a prayer’? TAKE NOTE(Insights into SAP solutions and EmergingTechnology) It’s a time of transition at SAP—with the recent turnover in the executive ranks and the cloud taking center stage—and that will be on display at Sapphire Now in Orlando, which is co-located with ASUG’s Annual Conference. The event formally kicks off on June…
Cloud Computing Trends You Didn’t See Coming TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and EmergingTechnology) Market watchers predict cloud spending will increase five to seven times, outpacing overall tech spending in the next three years. But cloud adoption will no longer be driven solely by the promise of lower IT costs. Businesses will move to the cloud for different reasons…
Millennials are Changing the Workplace TAKE NOTE(Insights into SAP solutions and EmergingTechnology) Is there really no dignity? Generational differences have always influenced the workplace. There’s nothing new there. But with Millennials running rampant across corporate America, that influence is creeping into our private spaces. Into our homes. Into our bedrooms. Into our closets. Yes, millions of Gen X’ers like me…
SAP EHP 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and EmergingTechnology) SAP.Info – SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 contains more than 750 business functions. The key new features are SAP Fiori, MRP runs, and data aging objects. Enhancement packages give enterprises the flexibility to extend their SAP software by adding only those functions…
Beat software vendors’ Price Increases TAKE NOTE (Insights into SAP solutions and EmergingTechnology) Infoworld – If you think software is getting more expensive, you’re right. Not only that, it’s getting harder to even find the price hikes, so you can avoid them or know it’s time to switch to another vendor’s software. It’s only natural vendors will pull out all the…
What is SAP JAM? TAKE NOTE(Insights into SAP solutions and Emerging Technology) There are now more ways for employees to communicate than ever before. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Email, Phone, Text…its endless. Good thing? SAP doesn’t think so. They think the information can be scattered and isolated. Thoughts from your coworker could be recorded in an e-mail, another on an IM,…
