May 19, 2016Mark CoxComments Off on 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.
May 18, 2016Mark CoxComments Off on 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.
May 18, 2016Mark CoxComments Off on 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.
May 18, 2016Mark CoxComments Off on 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.
May 16, 2016Mark CoxComments Off on 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.
February 22, 2016Mark CoxComments Off on 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.
January 27, 2016Mark CoxComments Off on 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’s new HANA-powered CRM solution for SMBs, which will hit general availability in both the U.S. and Canada in 2016, is drawing lots of interest. ChannelBuzz takes a look at why.