The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

“Speed alone is of little value if you’re headed the wrong way,” SAP’s Lars Dalgaard said in his Wired blog post Wednesday. “The combination of direction and speed is critical as companies extend and evolve their current IT systems and lines of business applications for the 21st century workplace.” (more…)

As SAP increases its commitment to the startup community, it is also more than doubling its capital commitment to the SAP HANA Real Time Fund – from an original 2012 commitment of $155 million to $405 million – to further support entrepreneurs and startups worldwide as they build their businesses on SAP platform technologies, including SAP HANA. (more…)

Think Lexmark is just printers? Think again. The company broadened its offerings in a major way to face very radical changes taking place within the printing industry. So what does the Lexmark business model look like today? (more…)

The new normal is no longer new in finance, according to SAP’s Martin Narachewski. The years since the economic crisis introduced omnipresent volatility, increased focus on risk, constantly changing regulatory requirements and other hardships that have become facts of life. (more…)

SAP HANA just became available on the cloud, supported by seven data centers worldwide, SAP announced Tuesday. Foregoing lengthy installations, the price of admission for rapid in-memory data retrieval and analytics is now the cost of a license. (more…)

An online course is now available to software developers looking to increase their knowledge of the SAP universe, the company announced Tuesday. (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…)

Analytics used to belong exclusively in the realm of the nerds. The tools and the time required to tease insights out of huge volumes of data were incompatible with the real-time needs of customer-facing business people. (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…)