Yesterday, many SAP BusinessObjects customers, mentors, partners and even a few competitors listened in as Steve Lucas as he unveiled SAP’s bold, new analytics strategy. The twittersphere as active as tweets were tracked using #allaccessanalytics, we had a lot of fun. Zimkhita Buwa quipped: Steve emphasized that SAP isn’t delivering a ‘mission accomplished’ banner. It’s just […]
Category Archives: HANA
HANA continues momentum in Utilities…
I believe HANA represents the most significant innovation in SAP’s history. A year ago I wrote a quick summary of some of the key value points that HANA brings to an organization and I focused specifically on BW on HANA, one of the most common HANA use cases for existing SAP customers. Over the last […]
Using Explorer and Lumira with SAP BW
This is a quick post to let you know that there is an excellent whitepaper available which explains everything you need to know about leveraging Explorer and Visual Intelligence with SAP BW. Organizations must leverage some type of acceleration technology – either HANA or BWA. Here is the original article: http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-2943 Here is a link […]
Sizing Up HANA
HANA is here, so I wanted to take a minute a field a few common questions about HANA licensing. The software stack comes with the hardware provided by the hardware partners, whereas the license has to be obtained from SAP. SAP HANA is sold in 64GB units. Although the product is non-discountable, it does come […]
Bill McDermott Talks SAP
Earlier this month, I got a chance to see Bill McDermott, SAP CEO on Mad Money with Cramer. When asked about the markets in Europe, I loved his response: If you can deliver a solution that gives a leader of company a business outcome, they can reach their customers better, they can automated their demand-driven […]