That SAP HANA was the dominating topic on the vendor‘s recent Sapphire event did not come as a surprise. But what is becoming clearer is that SAP positions it as a ubiquitous platform to address market segments beyond traditional enterprise software. HANA is becoming the engine of SAP‘s software and cloud offerings. In addition, the vendor wants to make HANA [...]

SAP HANA as a platform for the SAP Business Suite (‘Suite on HANA’) is a topic with very high relevance for both SAP users and SAP partners. In our new market insight “Evolution of ERP: SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA” we examine…

SAP HANA as a platform for the SAP Business Suite (‘Suite on HANA’) is a topic with very high relevance for both SAP users and SAP partners. In our new market insight “Evolution of ERP: SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA” we examine: The perception of SAP users and SAP partners considering “Suite on HANA” Opportunities and challenges for users [...]

SAP has announced a new cloud environment for its in-memory computing platform, SAP HANA. “HANA Enterprise Cloud” is a managed service from SAP that offers customers an environment to operate SAP software. Basically, HANA Enterprise Cloud is a set of managed services provided through SAP’s data centers. The customer gets an environment to deploy SAP software on SAP HANA. According [...]

IT support for enterprise social collaboration is becoming more and more important for companies, and many vendors are expanding their offerings to meet the need. One of them is SAP. PAC had the chance to sit down with Sameer Patel, SAP’s Global Vice President and GM, Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software to review the software maker’s strategy. A product named [...]

SAP’s announcement of the availability of SAP HANA as a database for its SAP Business Suite was not unexpected, and yet it is true that the vendor has introduced a major advance to the core system, opening up new possibilities for process innovation – what SAP refers to as ‘real-time business.’ Customers now have the option to use SAP HANA [...]

There is no doubt that SAP HANA is a central piece of SAP’s developing product architecture. According to PAC’s latest survey, SAP users are aware of this fact and are already expressing a lot of interest in the topic. However, customers are not sure yet about the role which SAP HANA should play within their companies. On the one hand, [...]

SAP is expanding its cloud offerings with a number of applications. One is SAP Travel OnDemand. PAC had a chance to look at it. Travel management is a task many companies have to perform. However, not every company has a proper solution for it in place. The challenge with travel management is that you have to consider a number of [...]

Mobile support is key for CRM. But how far do smartphones and tablets change the way CRM is used? And how important is mobile support if a company is about to select a CRM solution? A recent PAC study shows that for 70 percent of German companies mobile support is a key selection criterion for a CRM solution. For the multi-client [...]

As Microsoft prepares for the launch of Windows 8, we got an insight into what is to be expected from the the software giant during its German Partner Conference 2012 in Stuttgart.