On Wednesday, February 29 at 9am PST Timo Elliott from SAP will be hosting the next #SAPChat focused on “Business Intelligence Best Practice”. This open tweet forum will be discussing how best to implement business intelligence projects successfully, with an emphasis on people-focused hints and tips rather than technical discussions.
Read more about the tweet chat on Timo’s blog page: BI Questions Blog
SAP is attending the Mobile World Congress (MWC) event this week; with an expected 60,000 attendees the event is the place to be for mobile innovation. The on-site activities from the shared SAP and Sybase booth can be watched via these recordings on the SAP Virtual Events site.
Outlined here is Snap Shot of our day 1 news & videos from the event:
SAP and Samsung
In this video BC Cho, Head of Global Enterprise Business Team, Samsung and Oliver Busmann, CIO, SAP discuss the main trends of MWC, how the Samsung Android and Devices are now enterprise ready in a secure and remote environment.
SAP and Hospital de Sant Pau
Dr. Picas is the CIO of Hospital de Sant Pau, one of the oldest hospitals in Europe. In this video he discusses the hospitals mobility approach for the future. The Hospital de Sant Pau is using the SAP Electronic Medical Record mobile app with their young doctors. Dr Picas outlines how the collection of information and processes in the emergency room is an important area for mobile devices.
Release of Afaria 7.0
The significance of the 7.0 release is a single console for end-users to better manage all of their mobile devices, applications and data. In addition the Afaria 7.0 release will also help IT managers in an automated way to configure and secure their enterprise personally-owned mobile devices. Afaria 7.0 will be available in late Q1 2012 and can be used on the iPad and other tablets.
New Version of SAP Billing for Telecommunications
First launched in January 2011, this latest release provides a new approach to billing for communications service providers (CSPs). The new enhancements include: an extended integration between order capture, product modeling & service pricing design, end-to end support for pre-paid, post-paid and hybrid billing across the business process chain.
Telco 2.0 Challenge
The Telco 2.0 challenge is an invite from SAP to the telecommunications companies to submit their innovative ideas for new service offerings and revenue streams. The challenge is designed to help companies offer more services, create new revenue streams and expand their customer base.
SAP and SuccessFactors, an SAP company, today announced their unified product direction for human capital management solutions. The combined portfolio will provide end-to-end integrated solutions to help with some of the biggest challenges that business leaders around the world are facing across all lines of business: managing their talent to top performance and turning their strategies into actions and results. Read the press release.
As data volumes continue to increase and businesses shift into the next generation of data storage, analytics capabilities will be the front-end visualization technology that consumes this BIG data in real-time. To tackle this BIG data challenge SAP provides analytics capabilities that capture the power of in-memory computing technology (SAP HANA) and deliver information in meaningful ways to drive business value.
SAP customers are already beginning to take their data to Level 11 (thank you Spinal Tap). Here are a few extreme analytics examples:
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What opportunities do you see for real-time analytics within your organization?
Learn more about SAP HANA, and try it for yourself.
Also check out the latest on mobility for BIG data at www.sap.com/analytics_on_the_go.
Being in transit, I was unable to attend the last #SAPChat about SAP HANA. I found the transcript on experiencesaphana.com. If you don’t know about this site bookmark it! It provides the latest SAP HANA news.
The chat answered questions about SAP HANA challenges for 2012, access of SAP HANA for BW customers, SAP HANA consultants and partners, customer experiences with HANA, etc.
Plus, Vishal Sikka, SAP executive board member for technology & innovation crashed the chat!
Read the chat.
It is official, SAP is now offering two new solutions for small and midsize business to utilize the power of in-memory technology. The two new offerings: Analytics powered by SAP HANA for the SAP® Business One application and SAP HANA, Edge edition will give SMEs the analytic capactiy to make faster and smarter business decisions.
If you were unable to join the SAP press conference here is the link to the recording:
Here are the highlights about the new offerings:
Analytics powered by SAP HANA for SAP Business One is an offering for existing and new SAP Business One companies. Ramp-up is planned to begin at the end of February to select geographies, with general availability planned for later in 2012. The new solution provides:
SAP HANA, Edge edition are for companies already using the SAP® Business All-in-One solution. The solution is globally now.
Read the press release.
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.
Following its commitment to deliver regular and digestible innovation to customers, SAP today announced the second wave of extensive usability and functionality improvements for industry and line-of-business solutions. The innovations will include new user experiences for professional and casual users, such as landing pages and side panels with integrated analytics. Read the newsbyte.
On Tuesday, February 7 at 8am EST / 2pm CET SAP will present its plans for SAP HANA for small business and midsize enterprises.
Eric Duffaut, president of Global Ecosystem & Channels and Bobby Vetter, SVP, Ecosystem & Channels Readiness will host the call.
To join the call use the following dial-ins below. We will make the recording available afterwards.
Follow the conversation at #hana and #sapanalytics
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