Sap News & Articles

Larry Ellison must have woken up mighty early this morning (like 5 am PT) to hear what SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner was going to say about SAP HANA, which is being called “the fastest in memory database of all time.” 

After months of accusation and counter accusation there is finally some move on the HP-Autonomy legal contest with a complaint being officially filed. However, the story took another twist this week as SAP claims that HP tried to off-load Autonomy on it. SAP, it seems, politely refused.

Just in time for its Sapphire Now conference this week, SAP has released a deluge of product and partnership updates including the debut of HANA Enterprise Cloud and HANA powered OpenText for SAP Solutions.

IBM’s Smart Planet strategy has been a work in progress for the past five years. This week, it adds another piece to it in the shape of MessageSight, which IBM describes as a cornerstone of the whole Smart strategy.

If you've ever wondered where information management and related IT fields are going, or where all the different strands will come together, new research by SAP may have the answer -- Machine to Machine (M2M) technologies across a vastly expanded internet are the next step in information and data management.

In response to the growing demand for secure, remote access to enterprise data, SAP has just announced the release of the SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16 suite on its Real-Time Data Platform, offering enterprises the possibly of extending business transactions to remote locations.

Gartner has just produced some new figures that appear to confirm that customer relationship management (CRM) will have a significant mobile presence by next year.

In March, we mentioned that through a partnership with Fan Appz, SAP users will be able to develop more personalized and engaging social media posts and campaigns, which can lead to a better relationship and customer experiences with their targeted audiences. We had an opportunity to talk with the folks at Fan Appz about the state of social engagement. 

SAP’s Big Data Transition Strategy will be studied in MBA programs a few years from now. The company is disrupting its industry with revolutionary solutions without disrupting its customers. Needless to say, that’s a hard thing to do.

Enterprise software and service provider, SAP has announced new features for its Customer OnDemand Suite which will give sales, customer service and marketing representatives the ability to communicate with customers offline and on the road, on the channel of the customer's choice.

Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, SAP introduced a mobile content management solution called SAP Mobile Documents that offers a single entry point to user content from any mobile device.

Ask the average IT professional to name SAP’s claims to fame, and chances are they’ll tell you about its enterprise business applications such as enterprise resource planning (SAP ERP), enterprise data warehouse SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Objects and so on.

The latest Gartner's Business Intelligence and Analytics Magic Quadrant portrays a mature market that has a wide variety of vendors mostly working on getting companies to move up from descriptive analytics to the next step of diagnostics.

With all the discussion around customer relationship management (CRM) and customer experience management (CXM), it is hard to believe that one of the major issues facing enterprises is defining CRM strategies. According to Forrester’s William Band, this problem is compounded by a shifting CRM landscape.

This ain't Larry Ellison's locked down world. Unlike some other industry vendors, SAP isn't aiming to be the alpha and omega of Corporate IT. Instead the Enterprise application turned database platform provider chooses to focus on what it does best and builds deep partnerships with others in the stack.