AI and IoT at SAP – Yin and Yang

by Thomas Wieberneit | May 19, 2017 | Analysis, Blog

During the 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW conference SAP told the stunned audience about how they connected some dots to create better value and more intelligent business applications for their customers. In essence SAP lifted the veil on how the company will go ahead with two...

SAP CRM and SAP JAM – Good News from CRM evolution

by Thomas Wieberneit | Apr 29, 2017 | Analysis, Blog

During CRM Evolution 2017 I had the chance of talking with Volker Hildebrand and Anthony Leaper from SAP. Volker is SAP’s Global Vice President SAP Hybris and Anthony is Senior Vice President and Sales GM – Enterprise Social Software at SAP. Topics that we...

Google and SAP – A Marriage in the Clouds

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

On Mach 8, 2017, SAP and Google announced another marriage in the cloud during Google’s Cloud Next event: SAP HANA is certified on Google’s Cloud Platform GCP, and is generally available now. SAP Cloud Platform and more products and solutions are to follow. The Google...

Gartner MQ BI and Analytics Platforms – Lots of Movement

by Thomas Wieberneit | Feb 22, 2017 | Analysis, Blog

Last week Gartner published the updated version of its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, and I need to say that there has been a lot of movement in both directions, up as well as down. There has been a lot of reshuffling especially in...

Another Strong Year for SAP

by Thomas Wieberneit | Jan 25, 2017 | Analysis, Blog

On January 24, 2017 SAP released its results of their fiscal year 2016 – and the fourth quarter thereof. In a nutshell SAP: Delivered to its increased 2020 guidance Had an increase of 31 per cent in cloud subscription and support revenue, while still being able to...