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It seems as if every year IBM Connect always throws in some interesting items -- and this year is no different. In what almost appears to be a timed response to Oracle’s outline of its cloud strategy, IBM has given its SmartCloud a lot of attention, including a great big dollop of SAP love.

The first real look at Big Data analytics of the year comes in the shape of a new Forrester Wave report. The space may still be dominated by IBM and SAS but it appears that 2013 is going to be a year with some serious competition with a substantial number of strong performers jostling for a place in the Leaders category.

Larry Ellison probably didn’t sleep well last night.

Business Suite, SAP's comprehensive enterprise transaction application, has been made generally available on the HANA in-memory database, a move that brings truly real time business very close to reality.

How do the major vendors of master data management for customer data stack up? Taking a shot with its evaluation is Gartner and its newly released Magic Quadrant report on this field.

“Big Data” was all the rage in 2012. Everyone from your company’s president, to President Obama to a passerby on Main Street had something to say about it. Whether any of them could actually define the term was another matter; not even the experts seem to agree on what it means.

Economically, we still haven’t left the Great Recession behind. It’s everywhere; in every enterprise balance sheet, in every merger and acquisition, in R&D departments on both sides of the Atlantic. That said, it hasn’t really dampened enthusiasm for buy-outs and there were many this year across the entire IT spectrum.

SAP is endorsing the Sales and AdWatch cross-platform advertising sales and production solutions from cloud-based advertising,content management and publishing platform provider Mediaspectrum. This means the Mediaspectrum applications are complementary to SAP software and follow SAP development guidelines.

Amazon announced yet another price drop on its S3 Storage Service as its Web Services continues to change how cloud computing is done.

SAP is a big company that likes to take big steps. The SAP 360 Customer solution introduced at this week’s SAPPHIRE NOW/TechEd conference in Munich, which SAP says will “revolutionize” how companies engage with customers, certainly qualifies as a big step.

Enterprise software and software-related services company, SAP, has released changes to the SAP Mobile Platform, security features for SAP Afaria and a new product: SAP 360 Customer Solution.

SAP is reconfiguring its social strategy around a new service called Jam that the vendor says will redefine enterprise social software. 

SAP delivers efficient processing of massive data sets with real-time insights.

The Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (EGRC) market has been evolving steadily since it emerged eight years ago. It has now matured to such a point that, according to Gartner’s recent Enterprise GRC Magic Quadrant, the key differentiators are the delivery of advanced risk management functionality. Running straightforward GRC components is no longer enough to make the cut.

What does SAP's co-option of the Oracle Open World hashtag spell for the future of business to business social media relations?