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SAP hosted a global press event today in Palo Alto with SAP Co-Founder Hasso Plattner and SAP Executive Board Member Vishal Sikka to announce SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.

• Watch a replay of the event.

FRANKFURT, NEW YORK and PALO ALTO — SAP today announced the availability of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, a new option for SAP Business Suite customers. (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…)

PALO ALTO — This week marks the one-year anniversary of the SAP HANA platform becoming generally available. To celebrate this occasion, SAP today announced the launch of the SAP HANA Distinguished Engineer program. (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO – At a press conference held this morning in San Francisco, SAP announced plans to drive innovation with its mobile and real-time data platforms. (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO — SAP today announced its innovation road map to help transform the database and mobile markets. (more…)

SAP today announced that its supervisory board has voted to extend the tenure of Dr. Vishal Sikka as Executive Board member of SAP AG through December 31, 2017. Sikka agreed to the extension of his tenure. Read the press release.

With the end of summer upon us, and SAP TechEd around the corner, I’ve been putting my thoughts together.  Then the events of this last week happened.  And I believe they signal, simultaneously, both the great shifts that are presently underway, as well as the beautiful permanence of change, of life’s ephemerality. (more…)

During his keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW from Orlando, SAP Executive Board Member Vishal Sikka showed video testimonials from customers all over the world that are already seeing benefits from SAP In-Memory Computing. Learn firsthand how organizations are taking advantage of this technology. Watch the videos.

SAP today announced the appointment of Dr. Christoph Kollatz to executive vice president, SAP HANA, in the Technology and Innovation Platform Board Area, effective June 6, 2011. His primary focus will be on SAP In-Memory Appliance software (SAP HANA), a breakthrough innovation from SAP. The demand for SAP HANA has rapidly increased since it was first announced just a few months ago.  Kollatz joins to meet this demand and to rapidly scale and drive the widespread adoption and implementation of SAP HANA. Read the press release.