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Articles in category: Cloud
8 Steps to Success in the Cloud
According to a new report by the Sand Hill Group that was sponsored by SAP, aside from the obvious attraction of potential cost savings, one of the draws of subscription based cloud computing is that it allows companies to evaluate new business concepts without having to invest in new servers themselves. Without having to go through their own capex approval processes, they can quickly test the market, perhaps even gaining first-mover advantage into an embryonic new market segment set to flourish.
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11 Tips for Deploying ERP Applications
In a global mobile environment, organisations are looking for ERP systems that do more than integrate with a legacy system. But with so many solutions available, how do you choose the software that's right for your enterprise? IT executives and ERP experts offer 11 tips to get a return on your software investment.
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Why Did GE Invest $100 Million in a PaaS Company?
The announcement last week that GE (yes that GE) made a $105 million investment in the Pivotal Initiative caught many by surprise. Not only was it strange to see GE make a large direct investment in a technology vendor, it was also odd to see it in a relatively immature market like PaaS.
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SAP study: Brazil, China, Germany and India 'most ready' for M2M tech
A new international survey pinpoints where machine-to-machine technology has the best chance to enable smarter cities right now. According to the report, nearly a third of respondents from IT departments in each of the six markets included in the study replied that smart cities would be the "coolest possible outcome" of M2M.
However, it might take a while for these dreams to be realised — not just because we have to wait for more M2M solutions to be developed and deployed, but also because only 38 percent of survey participants were able to correctly define the M2M acronym itself.
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Realising Cost Savings With Cloud ERP
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Cloud ERP software is not necessarily easier to implement or easier to use than on-premise systems but one thing is certain: when implemented properly, cloud ERP software can save organisations money in many cases. Cost savings in the form of reduced IT staffing and reduced hardware expenditures are just two of the benefits.
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SAP Cloud Appliance Library
With a preconfigured SAP system delivered via the cloud, companies can quickly conduct proof-of-concepts and software evaluations without having to build a test environment themselves first.
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Cloud boosts SAP revenue
SAP reported strong growth in cloud subscription and support revenue in the first quarter, even as the company saw a decline in software and cloud subscription revenue in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region.
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Ivory Coast firmly on SAP Africa's expansion agenda
SAP has announced its commitment to the Ivory Coast as part of its Africa expansion strategy. The business management software solutions and services company will focus on the implementation of skills development and employability programs as part of its involvement in the country’s development. In partnership with the government and other stakeholders, SAP will be supporting the country’s 2020 objective to implement transformational e-government services, as an integral and crucial enabler for innovation and development.
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Do Enterprises Need an Agile Approach to Cloud Strategy?
Now that corporate IT is finally taking cloud seriously, we’re starting to see development of more explicit enterprise-wide “cloud strategies”. Whether driven internally or with the help of external consultants, many of these take familiar IT strategy development processes and direct them at cloud. Here are some common pitfalls we’re seeing with many of these...
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What do Fighter Pilots, Communists, and British Coal have to do with Clouds?
“What is are the biggest benefits of cloud computing?” you’re likely to get a couple top answers: reduced IT costs and increased business agility. But when you probe people beyond that, asking them, “How does cloud computing help with those things?” the conversation quickly turns mushy.
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SAP Co-CEOs: 99% of Employees Approve
SAP Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe took second place in the list of “50 Highest Rated CEOs” put out by Glassdoor.com, nearly tying with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the top spot.
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Five Takeaways from the JPMorgan Chase PaaS Announcement
In one of the more eye-opening recent announcements in the world of enterprise cloud, JPMorgan Chase said last week that it has migrated nearly all of its internal .NET and Java applications to a PaaS model. Over 430 development teams, 2,000 applications and 4 data centers are now in production in a PaaS environment delivered by Apprenda.
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Barnstone, SAP extend mobile management capability in Africa
“I think more now than ever before we are seeing how innovative use of technology is having such a significant impact in business and the partner ecosystem in Africa,” said Desmond Nair, Director for Ecosystem and Channels, SAP Africa.
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Ericsson and SAP Announce New Combination of Cloud-Based Machine-to-Machine Solutions to Enhance Enterprise Efficiency
In an effort to meet the growing demand for machine-to-machine technology, Ericsson and SAP AG have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based, machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and services to enterprises via operators around the globe. The ERP solutions will be based on a combined software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from Ericsson and SAP within M2M.
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Can Traditional ERP Vendors Keep up with Consumer Demand?
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The enterprise software market has always been driven by heavy competition but recently, the ERP industry has been looking more and more like a vendor battleground as best-of-breed and SaaS solution providers swiftly seize market share. By some estimates, $1 trillion of market share has been transferred from traditional ERP vendors to cloud and SaaS providers.
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Cloud, SaaS dominating tech industry acquisitions
The overwhelming priority for mergers and acquisitions appears to be centered around cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service, based on a new report from Ernst & Young. Plenty of new mergers and acquisitions in the tech industry are reported about on a daily basis, but the market has been dominated by cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service businesses, according to Ernst & Young.
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Connecting the Dots: What comes after Business Suite on HANA
After last weeks press conference in Palo Alto officially announcing the Business Suite on HANA, there have been countless blogs, articles and discussions regarding the announcement. What is missing, however, is any analysis of what SAP is planning next for HANA. Richard Hirsch provides his analysis on what he believes SAP will be doing.
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Consol extends partnership with T-Systems
Africa’s largest glass manufacturer, Consol Glass, has extended its contract for five years with T-systems.
The extension underscores a successful six-year partnership, which has, among others, seen Consol migrating its SAP business application infrastructure to T-Systems’ cloud computing platform in 2011, in a deal worth R25 million.
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The 90s Called: They Want Their Procurement Team Back
Today I talked to a client about their private cloud architecture and pending investments. The talk hit on a lot of areas, ranging from software licensing, to vendor support, to orchestration, and finally to standardisation. When we got to the topic of standardisation and procurement, they couldn’t contain themselves.
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The Future of PaaS: What Its Evolution Means for Software Development
The cloud infrastructure of Platform as a Service (PaaS) usually is promoted as a benefit to the datacenter and sysadmin staff. But creating software in the cloud impacts how development teams work, including process changes, speed of development (especially mobile), and IT-business collaboration.
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The cloud is coming to your business, like it or not
Significant cloud adoption often had nothing to do with IT, suggesting many businesses have pulled ahead of their CIOs By David Linthicum. A new survey from Brocade finds the role of the CIO is changing, apparently driven by cloud computing. The survey of 100 CIOs from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa finds that half expect cloud adoption to take less time than required to deal with IT infrastructure issues, such as email and storage.
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SAP SaaS marches on
Explore Thoughts, Theories, Facts, and Notions
SAP is laying out a strong SaaS program and has keen view of the future and have organized themselves into upper domain areas of: People, Money, Customers, Suppliers, and Special.
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Cloud Trends to watch out for in 2013
Written by Dr. Mariana Carroll Cloud adoption in South Africa is still very reactionary, specifically due to inadequate Cloud understanding, regulatory issues, compliance and security concerns. There is however a clear edge for early adopters of cloud, transforming and enabling their business and IT models toward cost effectiveness, enhanced collaboration, increased agility and innovative solutions.
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Shell renews contract with T-Systems
T-Systems, announced the renewal of its business with Shell for another five years, by signing a contract for worldwide hosting and storage services. Under the agreement, T-Systems will continue to provide Shell with data centre infrastructure and computing services around the world.
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