One of my least favorite topics is licensing. It seems like every year as corporate strategies change and as customers push for simplified licensing, SAP comes out with a new way to sell it's products. If you've been around a while you'll recognize some of these: BusinessObjects Enterprise BusinessObjects Enterprise with Interactive Viewing BusinessObjects Enteprise [...]
New Ideas Spark Hydro One Into Action
The second day of Sapphire has seen many fabulous testimonials from customers. Companies are changing the way they do business by leveraging the latest SAP technologies including: HANA, BusinessObjects and Mobility. Hydro One was one of those customers and I wanted to highlight what they've done. Mike Winters and Laura Formusa represented Hydro One in [...]
Peabody Energy Fuels BI Innovation
As usual SapphireNow delivered some amazing presentations today. None better than the session called, See the Future Now with the Latest Mobile Analytics Solutions. The good news, bad news was if you thought it was going to be all about Mobility, you were wrong. It was much more. This standout session was a 20 minute [...]
Take Advantage of Conference Replays!
With everyone gearing up for SapphireNow in Orlando I'd like to remind everyone to take advantage of the many conference replays that are available on varying SAP Websites. Influencer Summit http://www.sapvirtualevents.com/influencer-summit/Sessions.aspx?NavId=139 Simply login using your sap.com login. This event wasn't that long ago, December 13-14, 2011. There is some great content here. I especially liked [...]
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 [...]