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ORLANDO — Joined by luminaries from some of the biggest names in professional sports, SAP today spotlighted new solutions that are expected to transform the sports and entertainment industry, the company’s 25th and newest vertical industry market. (more…)

Are you ready for Big Data at the big screen? It’s true. Hollywood has discovered Big Data’s talents to determine how to distribute and promote movies. (more…)

Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer used data analytics to justify her company’s ban last week on telecommuting, according to Business Insider. It seems Mayer doesn’t do much without lots of data backing her up. (more…)

“Cities are like human beings,” SAP’s Judith Magyar wrote from Mobile World Congress Wednesday. “Each individual person, or city, is unique and special in its own way.”

So when a city has problems, the solutions provider must find what works for that particular municipality. (more…)

SANTA CLARA — Building on a long relationship of joint collaboration, SAP today announced a technical and business partnership with Intel that will help organizations in data-intensive industries become more competitive and agile by leveraging insights across business operations from all their data assets at the pace of business. (more…)

“Companies that have embraced the future have been rewarded,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Mad Money, highlighting SAP’s forward-thinking mindset — and rising stock price. “The company’s last quarter — it was fabulous — it was the best third quarter in its history.” (more…)

WALLDORF and NEW YORK — SAP and MolecularHealth, a leader in clinico-molecular informatics, today announced that they have joined forces to improve oncologists’ clinical decision-making and enhance the quality of care for cancer patients. (more…)

NEW YORK  — SAP today announced integration of Apache Hadoop into real-time data warehousing environments with a new “big data” bundle and go-to-market strategy with Cloudera, Hitachi Data Systems, Hortonworks, HP and IBM. (more…)

WASHINGTON — “Big data” has the potential to transform government and society, and the path to harnessing it is relatively straightforward and affordable, according to a new report released today by the TechAmerica Foundation’s Big Data Commission. (more…)

BERLIN — As part of its initiative to work closely with startup companies worldwide, today SAP is holding the SAP Startup Forum in Berlin. (more…)