Category: Cloud

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 speak with a number of people every year who have never heard of virtualization, and quite frankly this is a point that saddens me as a technology enthusiast.  How can everyone in the world not know about the glorious wonders that await them if they virtualized their infrastructure?!  Haha, ok maybe that’s going a [...]

Experimenting on your own to get a better understanding of a complicated matter is quite common. But there are many occasions where you want to read through a guided procedure to get more clarity. Here we have a simple stack of guides related to the SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management, which will help you in understating about the product and its implementation details very easily.

Great interview with Workday Co-CEO, Aneel Bhusri, who discusses cloud, ERP, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, NetSuite, investing, and other hot topics.

SAP's hot new software, HANA, has been a relative flop, said BofA Analyst Chandra Sriraman this morning. HANA was hailed as groundbreaking when it was introduced about a year ago. It sits in a computer's memory so it literally runs while the computer processes transactions. There's just one problem: No one is buying it.

SAP's Cloud Strategy has taken some big turns. But, will it be a boon for all businesses.

The implication is that SAP is building and promoting cloud, HANA and mobile apps that connect to pre-existing application suites (e.g., BusinessOne, Business ByDesign and Enterprise Suite). They are not planning on materially re-working the Enterprise Suite code anytime soon.

Bottom line: SAP cloud progress has been notable. BUT, the benefits will be uneven with mid-market buyers getting a better value experience in the short term.

Cloud computing, which Salesforce.com has been marketing for years, is now seen as such a good idea that I.B.M., SAP, Oracle and others are acquiring their own players. But recently Salesforce has won the sincerest form of flattery known in tech: its competitors are spending billions of dollars to acquire firms that do the sort of thing it does, which is to offer business software as a kind of rental service using a cloud of computers inside the Internet.

Take it or leave it, SAP is making quiet a some news about its new NetWeaver offerings. After a lot of buzz about HANA, it’s time for SAP NetWeaver Cloud based offerings. SAP Cloud is no more just about the ByDesign and mySAP components. SAP NetWeaver Neo – is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) [...] Related posts:Sail by River HANA build ByDesign Title of the post may sound interesting if HANA was a river. Unfortunately it’s not the river but SAP’s one of the emerging technologies and so are River & ByDesign. I stumbled upon a blog entry that talked about SAP River and its ability to create and deploy applications within hours!! SAP is... First SAP Portal TweetChat on SAP “OnDemand Portal” It’s is first of its kind and it’s here for the first time. Come 15th December 2011 from 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM CET,  SAP Portal team has scheduled a Tweet Chat – The topic of this first tweetchat is “Author Business Sites with SAP on demand Portal”. SAP experts... Aftermath: Kiss of death for Webdynpro Java SAP mentor Thorsten Franz published a blog on SDN to discuss & share the future of ...

SAP's acquisition of SuccessFactors raises plenty of questions for the future. The good news is that buyers will at last see some genuine innovation from SAP that is available now and not a hyped pipe dream for the future. That should provide welcome relief to customers who see themselves being pulled away from their strategy of having a one stop shop approach to the transactional systems.

SAP always talked a good game about the cloud, but today it put its money where its mouth has been, acquiring cloud HCM vendor SuccessFactors. Now what, SAP?

Check this blog for the fundamental building blocks of SAP´s Cloud Strategy where we have aligned all of cloud related activities to offer the market the best and most reliable business cloud to run business more efficiently and leverage the positives of the cloud. The cloud strategy is based on four main pillars: OnDemand solutions (SaaS), Platform and Eco-System (PaaS), Commercial Platform and Cloud Operations (IaaS).

While it might be the buzzword of the moment, analyst firm IDC predicts that by 2015, the cloud will no longer exist as a standalone concept, and it will instead be integrated into every facet of a business's service delivery. IDC also predicts that the technologies of cloud will become intrinsic parts of the IT infrastructure landscape and an essential component of any IT environment. Chris Morris, Associate Vice President for Cloud Technologies and Services at IDC Asia/Pacific says, "In enabling the enterprise move to this future, it is likely that IT executives will choose to help end-users meet their escalating business needs by offering IT 'as a service' rather than as a technology platform. In delivering these services to the business, the CIO will source more and more of these services externally – from the public cloud, from Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) hosted by an ICT service provider and from traditional outsourcers, which will also be using cloud technologies to deliver these services." These moves will result in CIOs being required to manage a hybrid environment comprising on-premise, outsourced, managed and cloud-sourced services. Morris adds, "In the past two years, we have seen a rapid maturation of users ...

The workplace of tomorrow will look like a lot of things actually, including the Internet; just not a whole lot like the way our organizations look today. For one, the workplace itself has steadily begun to disappear as teleworking becomes more and more prevalent, though the latest data shows this will take longer than other more imminent changes. These other disruptive forces, such as next-gen mobility, social networking, cloud computing, and big data, are so close at hand that most organizations are already extensively affected by them. It’s not a stretch to say they are eclipsing how IT is applied to business in many ways, even as IT shops are significantly underestimating their current impact, according to brand new research from Unisys.

Australian CIOs are generally optimistic despite challenging times, according to the first Insights Quarterly report, commissioned by Fujitsu and Microsoft Australia. Surveying 200 Australian CIOs, the report showed that alignment of ICT with business aims remains their primary objective. Many of the CIOs noted that business issues are often stronger drivers than technology issues in the Australian landscape, with business requirements taking precedence over technology. Almost half (46.2 per cent) saw these changing requirements as the most difficult challenge, ahead of protecting and securing the network, optimising and controlling costs, and improving service responsiveness. Virtualisation is shaping up to be the most relevant future technology, nominated by two-thirds of CIOs, followed by integrated enterprise-wide access, with 42.5 per cent saying it was of high interest, highlighting the importance placed on improved access to information. Business intelligence remains an area of significant investment, and while cloud computing was named as one of the most important technologies, it was also regarded as “overhyped”. However cloud remains attractive from the CIOs’ perspective due to its ability to move ICT from capital expenditure to operational expenditure, coupled with flexibility. Other current challenges for CIOs include the trend towards ‘Bring Your Own Device ...

Accenture is rolling out a new private cloud solution based upon new SAP technologies. This private cloud is touted as one that can offer the same benefits as an off-premise to public cloud transfer, but with the level of data security and integrity found typically with on-premise legacy technologies. Accenture’s private cloud also rests on two key features to cloud computing in general: easy migration while lowering costs. This will be accomplished with the transparent migration of two SAP properties that will manage the infrastructure: the ERP software suite, which supports tailored business processes and operations, and the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse component, which integrates data warehousing capabilities on a scalable platform.