The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

When it comes to Big Data, people up and down Highway 101 in Silicon Valley talk about technologies such as NoSQL, Hadoop and MapReduce as though they’ll solve all of our problems. While these are certainly exciting new capabilities, technology alone is only part of the answer to Big Data. Follow us on a six-part series of blog posts to learn more. (more…)

SAP today announced it has received two GRC Technology Innovation Awards from Corporate Integrity for its “bow-tie” builder, part of SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management, and its mobile GRC applications.

• Read the newsbyte.
• Read a blog post by Michael Rasmussen, risk and compliance lecturer, author and advisor at Corporate Integrity.
• Watch demo videos of the mobile apps SAP GRC Access Approver and SAP GRC Policy Survey.

SAP today announced two new offerings that will deliver the benefits of SAP HANA to SMEs. With analytics powered by SAP HANA for SAP Business One and SAP HANA, Edge edition, SMEs will be able to leverage powerful in-memory technology from SAP. Read the press release.

Last year, Ajay Ohri of the DecisionStats web site asked me to predict the top three analytic trends for 2011. He recently challenged me to score how well I did – here’s a copy of the post he put on his site, with the predictions and some comments on what actually happened during the year: (more…)

A leader in the automotive and industrial fields, ARaymond Network chose SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation when it needed a reliable and scalable solution to manage complex reporting requirements and maintain compliance with operational reporting regulations. Read the newsbyte.

Appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe,” SAP Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe discussed the company’s strategy. In the wake of announcing 2011 as the best year ever in SAP’s 40-year history, McDermott and Snabe offered insight into why the company continues to grow in double digits all over the world. (more…)

Humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief International has been bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to people affected by poverty, disaster or civil unrest for more than 60 years. In 2010, the organization selected SAP software to help it get personnel and supplies to the right places and people as efficiently as possible.  (more…)

In an announcement made from the NRF 101st Annual Convention & EXPO, SAP today introduced the SAP BusinessObjects Sales Analysis for Retail analytic application powered by SAP HANA. The application aims to offer prebuilt data models, KPIs, role-specific dashboards and customized reports to provide retailers with a deeper understanding of all factors influencing the merchandising life cycle. Read the newsbyte.

The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, in January 2007. I distinctly remember the date because shortly after, I was one of those people who stood in line for an entire day to get one. Around the same time, Bloomberg wrote an article about the iPhone saying “the iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks.” (more…)

In order to help global enterprises capitalize on the use of social media data, SAP and NetBase today announced that SAP will resell NetBase’s solutions as the SAP Social Media Analytics application by NetBase. Sold and supported by SAP as a solution extension product, the software delivers marketers more accurate real-time analytics for understanding their markets and customers through the social Web. (more…)