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 [...]

Business intelligence is going through a major transformation, and it’s all for the best… except maybe for CIOs who must rapidly adapt to new technologies and new user requirements, with stagnant or declining budgets. The Big Data buzzword has thrown into the light a number of crucial BI needs for today’s business, including: – Greater Volume, as data growth is [...]

EMC and VMware have yesterday launched officially Pivotal, their spin-off dedicated to Enterprise PaaS and Cloud-based Data Management. It is supposed to take a radical new approach to application middleware services, inspired from Cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services and Google. However, Pivotal is no start-up and from its creation, it was designed to take on the emerging PaaS [...]

Have you ever found yourself thinking about a technological vision of the future, where machines are taking care of basically every step in industrial production, retail, services or transportation. Well you probably did after watching a Hollywood movie. But soon you will be able to skip your detour to the theaters. At this year’s Hannover Messe everything was about “Industry [...]

Salesforce.com held a “Marketing Cloud” analyst event in London last week, where we discussed its product roadmap and ambitions to become a leader in Social Marketing. Salesforce boasts that over half the Fortune 100 already use its new Marketing Cloud, including brands like Nestlé, Ford and Unilever. Many clients have come via two key acquisitions of the past 24 months: [...]

Malgré le contexte économique difficile, les utilisateurs de SAP en France entendent montrer leur dynamisme et leur volonté de mettre en oeuvre les conditions du redressement. Et cela passe par l’innovation, maître mot de la journée organisée aujourd’hui par le club des utilisateurs SAP francophones (USF). Alors que l’USF avait adopté le thème du Big Data l’an passé, le thème [...]

At the recent Cloud Expo event in London, one of the most interesting themes was that of Big Data and the Cloud. While it is clear that Cloud-based consumer applications are some of the biggest drivers (creators) of Big Data, organisations’ propensity to perform their Big Data analysis in the Cloud is less certain. There are several reasons for this, [...]

Every vendor in the data management space does Big Data. Or, at least, everybody talks about it, even when they don’t do much. Analysts firms, like PAC, comment on each vendor’s strategy, and produce rankings and market shares especially of the large vendors. Yet, these rankings may not be aligned with the considerable mindshare among open source and startup vendors [...]

IBM is taking its analytics proposition to the midmarket through a series of industry-specific, cloud-based offerings.

Cloud computing would appear to be a perfect fit for the world of Formula One motor racing. Teams need huge elasticity in their computing landscape in order to meet spikes in demand around races which are held in increasingly diverse locations, across eight months of the year. The IT organization is tasked with pulling together massive volumes of data on [...]