New Orleans provided a hot and steamy backdrop to CSC’s latest global partner, customer and analyst event this week. The city is making a steady but startling recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Properties have been rebuilt, flood defences have been reinforced and building regulations have been tightened – although the scars of the 8-feet of floodwater [...]

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: The perception of SAP users and SAP partners considering “Suite on HANA” Opportunities and challenges for users [...]

Software AG announced yesterday it has acquired native PaaS vendor LongJump for an undisclosed sum. LongJump is one of the ‘oldest’ PaaS vendors, being on the market since 2003. The company has only 19 employees, yet it boasts a significant list of enterprise clients such as Cisco, AT&T, Nielsen, Deloitte or US Data Corp. LongJump’s cloud application development platform can [...]

In February, PAC was analyst partner to the CIO30 DACH – a three-day event gathering 30 CIOs from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. CIOs of companies such as Adidas, Credit Suisse, Danone or Merck participated.

Atos is coordinating an interesting PaaS-related, EU-funded R&D project focused on Cloud interoperability, governance and open standards. “Cloud4SOA” is creating a middleware framework for applications developers wanting to use a PaaS platform that promises Cloud interoperability and PaaS platform independence. The project is soon to get its first beta release. While not many people talk these days about SOA (almost [...]

By Phil Hassey, Founder of CapioIT Final details are being confirmed today (Feb 6th, 2013) for Dell Computer to be taken private. It is a news-making deal that summarises the problems of legacy PC-based technology and the unrelenting glare of quarterly numbers from Wall St. Clearly Dell, the company, and Michael Dell, its founder, have taken a pragmatic approach to [...]

Information Technology is at the core of today’s enterprises, administrations and economies, and as such it needs to be secure. As our economies become increasingly digital, PAC posits there can be no digital economy without digital trust. For example, IT security is…

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, [...]

En 2013, la distinction entre les distributeurs s’effectuera sur leur capacité à délivrer une expérience client cohérente et riche sur l’ensemble de leurs points de contacts avec leurs clients. Celle-ci ne sera possible que par l’alignement de la planification et de l’exécution, et par l’enrichissement de services délivrés aux clients. En effet en 2012, de nombreux distributeurs ont investi dans [...]