The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

We’re excited that 2011 will be another year of innovation at SAP TechEd. This year we are bringing games to SAP TechEd Las Vegas – in the form of Knowledge Quest at SAP TechEd!

As you know, Jane McGonigal will be speaking at SAP TechEd Las Vegas on Monday night.  Jane is Director of Game Research and Development, Institute for the Future and is a leader in how games help us learn in better and more powerful ways.  In addition, we are holding an SAP InnoJam on Sunday and Monday with the theme “Gamification for Enterprises”.   (more…)

It was Ben Franklin who once said “in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” If Ben were alive today, I wonder if he’d modify his now-legendary quote to include gamification. I’ve delved into the topic before, but two recent developments have really piqued my interest and make it abundantly clear that gamification is not only here to stay, it might just end up saving the (real) world. (more…)

Eager to learn more about SAP business analytics and mobility topics? Or perhaps  take advantage of in-depth SAP technical training? Now you can do both, all in the charming city of Madrid. For the first time, SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd will be co-located. Here are important dates to remember:

• SAPPHIRE NOW from Madrid (Nov. 9–10) offers executives, line of business and IT decision makers, and business managers the opportunity to gain unparalleled insights through customer-driven sessions and networking opportunities.
•  SAP TechEd Madrid (Nov. 8–11) provides in-depth technical training for IT professionals who develop, implement, optimize, or upgrade SAP software systems. (more…)

Fulfilling a promise made at SAP TechEd 2010, SAP announced today that the 7.3 release of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform is generally available to customers worldwide. This latest release helps customers more quickly and easily adapt business processes without increasing costs. And in conjunction with the best practices SAP delivers within its applications, customers can use SAP NetWeaver 7.3 to adapt their business processes as needed. Read the newsbyte.

To those unfamiliar with the SAP TechEd event series: I know what you’re thinking. With communication tools like Skype, Twitter, Facebook, and telepresence, and with online training and information available at our fingertips, do we still need in-person events? When it comes to SAP TechEd, the answer is a resounding yes for several reasons. (more…)

Do I have an unhealthy obsession with Baylor College of Medicine? I’m starting to think so. I paid them a personal visit a few years ago and have been tracking their vital statistics ever since. I had a chance to run another check up recently (yes, I love puns) and I am happy to report that their current IT prognosis, which involves the installation of a materials management application, running on SAP NetWeaver Mobile 7.1, looks good. Baylor is also an active participant within the SAP Community Network (SCN). (more…)

It was a year without parallel.  As social media, social networking, and social commerce gained in stature in the broader marketplace, SAP Community Network continued to refine, extend, and leverage social business as a strategic mechanism to deliver positive results to our customers, our partners, and SAP.  (more…)

Flying back to Palo Alto the long way gave me time to realize that I had spoken about SAP HANA in a video, in my SAP TechEd keynote, and then with the press, analysts, customers, etc, but I had neglected to talk to you, the SDN community! (more…)

SAP has reached another key milestone in its mission to harness the transformative power of in-memory computing with the availability of SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA) software. This first version of SAP HANA is the result of a robust co-innovation program between SAP and key partners and customers. SAP also introduced the SAP BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce Planning application, the first in a new generation of in-memory applications based on SAP HANA. (more…)

Watch an interview with Bridgette Chambers, CEO of ASUG, at SAP TechEd 2010. (more…)