SAPPHIRE

Hitachi Vantara announces hardware, software enhancements to Unified Compute Platform

June 6, 2018 Mark Cox 1

Just in time for SAP SAPPHIRE, several significant new SAP HANA software applications were announced, but that’s only a part of a fairly comprehensive Hitachi Vantara announcement.

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Attunity deepens SAP relationship with SAP HANA certification for enhanced Attunity Replicate

June 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Attunity is also highlighting their new Attunity Gold Client for Data Protection for SAP environments, which is designed to satisfy the new EU GDPR ‘right to be forgotten’ compliance requirements.

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Rodolpho Cardenuto, president of global channels and general business for SAP

SAP sees Cloud Choice Profit gaining momentum

May 17, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cloud Choice Profit program could account for three quarters of SAP cloud business by end of 2017, channel chief says.

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SAP re-christens Leonardo as its “system of innovation”

May 17, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Adding machine learning and Blockchain to IOT, SAP takes a shot at a platform for helping companies through digital business transformation.

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SAP: “It’s time to move the world to cloud”

May 15, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

SAP says it will rely on partners heavily as it sees momentum in moving customers large and small into cloud-based ERP.

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API platform vendor Apigee seeing strong results from SAP partnership

May 24, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

SAP and Apigee are both seeing good synergies from their approximately two year-old partnership, the type of ISV alliance strongly being broadly pursued by both companies.

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Lenovo announces new SAP partnerships, offerings at SAPPHIRE NOW

May 20, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Lenovo announcements included three joint offerings with integrators around SAP HANA, SAP-related data warehousing and memory announcements, and a hyper-converged sofolution r SAP Business suite applications stemming from their partnership with Nutanix.

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Major restructuring of SAP SME applications business designed to unlock growth

May 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

SAP Business One is fourth in its category with 1.8 per cent market share globally, but its general manager, Luis Murguia, believes a major organizational change which was quietly implemented in April can help to deliver significant growth.

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

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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SAP promises new emphasis on understanding customer problems

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

CEO Bill McDermott didn’t exactly promise a kinder, gentler SAP, but he did pledge a company that will be more empathetic to customers, have a more complete vision, and be more focused on simplicity. He also offered a forecast of some trends he thinks SAP will be well positioned to leverage.

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SAP, Microsoft expand partnership through deepened cloud integrations and support

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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SAP announces new Cloud Business Partner Program

May 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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Lenovo announces broad range of enterprise servers

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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