Category: Events

SAP said its fourth quarter results will come in better than expected as new initiatives such as HANA—the company’s in-memory analytics system—and mobile software showed solid progress. The enterprise applications software giant said revenue in the fourth quarter will check in at euro 4.5 million. Wall Street was looking for euro 4.47 billion. Software revenue was up 16 percent in the fourth quarter compared to a year ago and software related service sales were up 14 percent.

Going into 2012, the buzz has been on cloud computing, so don’t get caught on the wrong foot trying to play catch up. SAP TechEd is already leading the way with educational sessions focused on cloud computing and virtualisation technologies. A number of lectures are now available for you from SAP TechEd 2011 free of charge, where you can learn about implementing cloud infrastructures and virtualization technologies into your SAP environment:

I’m at SAPPHIRE/SAPTechEd Madrid and for the first time in a while, SAP has managed to get (half way) through a large customer event without causing serious alarms in the minds of customers and partners. Mostly. In our executive meetings, my team have been concentrating mostly upon mobile and the SAP Store since that is something that has exercised many of us as a story we have found difficult and often at odds with the rest of the industry. That is changing but as always, it’s changing the SAP way.

You can still be part of the experience by registering on the SAP virtual events website. Live Keynotes (Wed & Thu 9am – 10:30) Wed - Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO Thurs - Vishal Sikka, SAP Executive Board Member Live Broadcasts from the Spotlight Theater (Wed & Thu 10:30am – 6pm CET) Customer perspectives, SAP experts, and discussion panels featuring Cutting-edge, real-world business and technology topics such as business analytics, in-memory computing, and mobility.

SAP is offering upcoming Roadmap webcasts on Technology, BusinessObjects, and NetWeaver on the Business Suites - these are open to everyone. Sign up and register today for the "A View Forward: Understanding SAP's Product Roadmap Webcast Series"

Companies are starting to integrate sustainable practices into their core business processes. So what does this mean for SAP professionals? Watch this Mentor Monday webinar recording, in which host and SAP Mentor Jon Reed talks with Jeremiah Stone about how to "green your SAP skills."

The SAPhila Cape Town presentations are available for download from the SAPhila website. My picks (from downloads which were available) include: Derek Wood & Michael Perks - Process Orchestration and Distell Case Study Roland Slagman - SAP Financial Closing cockpit Natasha Cook - Never-ending quest for optimal BI Performance If you are looking for technical content of an international flavour, all the TechEd sessions from Las Vegas are available via the SAP virtual events website. The closing keynote by Tom Raftery from the SAP for Utilities conference in the US is available on Slideshare  

This article contains a list of interview with top executives from SAP TechEd event held in Las Vegas recently.

With TechEd moving to Madrid and mashed up with the more marketing oriented SAPPHIRE Now conference, SAP needs to shut up about HANA and find a different schtick. It can let the marketing run on from TechEd Las Vegas do its stuff. Instead, I’d like to see SAP talk much more about mobile and progress on the Sybase Unwired Platform, both of which got no airplay at TechEd. Given mobile is so hot at the moment, I was shocked. It is something that is easily understood, does not have to be disruptive or require huge consulting resources while offering the potential to proliferate solutions into the larger enterprise workforce and beyond.

The eventful group is hosting its BI conference in Johannesburg, they have brought out a number of top speakers including Ingo Hilgefort (BO Expert) and Lt Col Jorg Steinhorst. Conference includes client presentations from: SABMlller, Altron, SAPPI and City of Cape Town. A hands on workshop is being run on Wednesday which includes data stewardship and best practices for Business Objects 4.0 toolset. SAPortals will be tweeting from the conference, be sure to follow us @saportals

For the first time ever, SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd will co-locate in Madrid! Join us to learn more about SAP business analytics, mobility topics, and take advantage of in-depth SAP technical training.

The Americas SAP User Group, in an effort to demonstrate the benefits of belonging to ASUG to possible new members, is opening three great upcoming June webinars to non-ASUG members - EIM 4.0 Overview, EIM Solution Architecture for BI, and Cloud, Virtualization, and Appliance Deployments.

This speaks about the SAP NetWeaver Gateway Overview webinar that I did June 1st, 2011. My goal was to make this webinar a Gateway for viewers to SAP NetWeaver Gateway. Now I have to admit, the title is has “Overview” in it, but I went a bit further than that…in addition to overview type slides I decided to include slides on the ways to generate and test Gateway services…so it’s more than an overview in that it gives you a feel for what it will be like to create and test these Gateway services.

Are you curious about what has been presented during the SAP HANA InnoJam finals during SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 in Orlando. This blog provides you with all the material we've recorded.

Excitement is building for the first Eventful Plant Maintenance conference which is kicking off in Johannesburg next week (6th-8th June). The size of this conference is astonishing - over 300 Plant Maintenance specialists all listening to international speakers (America, Canada, Australia & Germany) and hopefully getting the inside scoop from Bob Skinstad on who he is backing for the World Cup - he is presenting a closing Keynote.