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Cloud

SAP Canada channel chief Rob Stevens lays out Canadian channel plans

June 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP Canada channel chief Rob Stevens lays out Canadian channel plans
Stevens talked with ChannelBuzz about how both SAP and its partners can work smarter, emphasized the importance of the cloud to SAP going forward, and indicated that they will wait to see if partners are on the same page with SAP before they start recruiting new ones.

Hardware

Lenovo announces broad range of enterprise servers

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo announces broad range of enterprise servers
The new offerings include new four and eight socket X6 systems, Lenovo Flex System X6 Compute Nodes, and both Lenovo X6 and joint Lenovo-EMC solutions optimized for SAP HANA.

Cloud

SAP Anywhere SMB front office suite to debut in China market

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Software

SAP strengthens BI tools for both enterprise and SMB

March 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP strengthens BI tools for both enterprise and SMB
The enterprise tool, SAP Predictive Analysis 2.0, now integrates Predictive Analysis and SAP’s InfiniteInsight solution, and SAP thinks it will offer a strong partner play.

Big Data

SAP reinvents Business Suite with HANA in biggest launch in company history

February 3, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP reinvents Business Suite with HANA in biggest launch in company history
SAP Business Suite is reinvented in SAP S/4HANA, where the S stands for Simple and the 4 for the fourth generation.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger
Cloud

Something for every partner in pre-PEX launches, VMware says

February 2, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Something for every partner in pre-PEX launches, VMware says
On the eve of its partner conference, VMware introduces major new releases of vSphere and vSAN, outlines its vision for virtual networking across clouds.

Cloud

SAP Business One 9.1 goes into general availability

December 18, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP Business One 9.1 goes into general availability
While this is a minor release of Business One, it contains some interesting upgrades, especially for those who use it on HANA rather than SQL.

SAP CEO Bill McDermott
Cloud

SAP pledges commitment to smaller firms at SME Summit

November 24, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP pledges commitment to smaller firms at SME Summit
Mississauga-based Lynch Fluid Controls was one of the SMEs selected by SAP to talk about their business and use of SAP solutions at the SAP event.

Kevin Gilroy, senior vice president and general manager of Global Small & Midmarket Segment at SAP
Channel Programs

SAP announces new, extended SME initiatives

November 24, 2014 Mark Cox 1
SAP makes an SME financing pilot permanent, makes HANA cheaper by enabling it to run on E5 servers, and lets SMEs list on SAP Ariba for free.

Cloud

SAP shifting Business ByDesign model to be more partner driven

October 17, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP shifting Business ByDesign model to be more partner driven
Last year rumours surfaced that SAP was shutting Business ByDesign down, but instead it has moved it to the HANA platform, given it its own general manager, and changed its go-to-market model to better leverage partners.