SAP and Microsoft bring their Partnership to the Next Level

by Thomas Wieberneit | Dec 4, 2017 | Analysis, Blog

The News On November 27 SAP and Microsoft announced a new level of their strategic partnership. Their key messages are that S/4 is fully ready to run on Azure Microsoft is committed to SAP and will upgrade its internal financial systems to S/4 on Azure SAP will move a...

Oracle Ups The Ante – Does the Salesforce Empire Strike Back?

by Thomas Wieberneit | Oct 28, 2017 | Blog

The fall conference season is in full swing. Of the big 4 we had Oracle Open World and the SAP Hybris Summit, with the Salesforce Dreamforce, SAPPHIRE, and Microsoft Connect() still to come. I have covered the SAP Hybris Summit, so do not need to say much about it...

Products to Services – The SAP Hybris Summit 2017

by Thomas Wieberneit | Oct 23, 2017 | Analysis, Blog

This year’s SAP Hybris Summit in Barcelona was attended by almost 3,000 paying participants, which is likely to make it the biggest ever, in spite of the recent unrest in Catalonia. It was packed with partners and presentations. The message all around was about...

SAP acquires Gigya – A Snap Analysis from Down Under

by Thomas Wieberneit | Oct 10, 2017 | Analysis, Blog

The News Well, it is already more than two weeks ago that this news hit the wires, but SAP announced the acquisition of Gigya, a leading Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platform vendor. Gigya got placed in the top position of Forrester’s Wave for...

SAP CRM Into S/4HANA – Did SAP Hit Bulls Eye?

by Thomas Wieberneit | Jun 12, 2017 | Analysis, Blog

After having talked with Volker Hildebrand about the future of SAP CRM and whether or not there will be a CRM component in S/4HANA at CRM evolution 2017 I now had the chance to follow up with some folks back at SAP in Walldorf. A little Recap Volker told me that,...