Tag Archive for HANA

SAP Application Innovation award winner OpenText sees SAP as hub of new partner push

OpenText has historically been mainly a direct player, but is looking to leverage its strong partnership and personal relationships with SAP, and its relationship with SAP partner Accenture to build up its channel business in Canada.

New Dell Validated System for SAP HANA Edge to bring HANA to SMBs

Other Dell SAP-related initiatives announced at SAPPHIRE NOW included ones around the Internet of Things, cloud blueprints to optimize SAP environments, and a new optimized architecture for SAP Foundation for Health.

New HDS UCP1000 for SAP HANA to be strong mid-market partner play

Hitachi Data Systems has greatly deepened its strategic relationship with SAP around HANA in the last several years, and its new announcements, which cover from the low end of the market to the high, broaden that portfolio.

SAP, Microsoft expand partnership through deepened cloud integrations and support

None of the announcements, which included joint validation for SAP HANA on the Azure platform, were earth-shattering, but they do speak to the significance of the relationship between the two long-time allies and how they see the market moving.

SAP announces new Cloud Business Partner Program

At its partner event preceding the broader SAPPHIRE conference, SAP previewed a major new cloud program, which will be implemented in three stages, the first of which will be in Q3 and the next two, next year. Details at this point were exceedingly scarce.

HDS announces new predictive analytics UCP model that forecasts customer churn

The new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 6000 for Predictive Analytics integrates SAP Predictive Analytics software, and while aimed mainly at telcos and media service providers, may have a broader audience than that.

Lenovo, SAP expand alliance with new joint techs, go-to-market programs

Details are pretty high level at this stage, and a Chinese cloud solutions venture will be China-focused — at least in the short term. There are, however, other elements which Lenovo channel partners will find of interest.

SAP Business One helps drive Canadian medical distributor’s continued growth

London, Ontario-based Tribe Medical Group moved to SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA last year, and have found its simplicity critical in helping them sell, keep staff, and control complexity.

SAP Anywhere hits pilot stage in US, with Canada to follow next year

The front-office suite, which was announced in the spring, has just reached general availability in China and was originally going to be limited to China for some time. However increased demand and competitive pressure have led SAP to change its plans.

Diablo launches all flash DDR4 memory modules to replicate DRAM performance for much less

Diablo’s Memory1 technology leverage its unique memory-channel architecture, to get DRAM performance out of NAND flash and reduce server CAPEX costs by up to 75 per cent.

SAP makes new partner initiatives in Business ByDesign

With a view to both expanding the number of skilled ByDesign people available to partners, and sharpening partners’ ability to use and extend the solution, SAP has launched several ByDesign initiatives, including a partner enablement portal and collaborative tool, and a certification program through Open SAP.

HDS announces new HANA converged solutions in Big Data analytics push

Hitachi’s Social Innovation strategy is designed to leverage analytics to drive their companies forward, and the new SAP HANA solutions are part of this strategy for HDS.

SAP Anywhere SMB front office suite to debut in China market

SAP is describing SAP as a new type of product, which allows SMBs to manage front office applications using real time analytics, and which has been built and priced specifically for this market.

Dell unveils new top of line PowerEdge R930 server

Dell says its new 4U, 4 socket rack offering will offer a much better price-performance alternative to legacy RISC-based systems, and one that should appeal to partners who serve the Big Data analytics market.

OnX adds two IT Service Management offerings to its Managed Services division

OnX Managed Services is a fast-growing part of the solution provider’s business, which now accounts for almost 40 per cent of its earnings.