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…
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…