Five Minute Briefing - SAP
December 18, 2013
Published in conjunction with the Independent SAP Technical User Group (formerly the International Sybase User Group), this monthly publication contains news, market research, insight for the SAP user community, as well as ISUG-TECH news and information.
News Flashes
A new rapid-deployment solution from SAP aims to address the issue of big data storage access and analysis which companies are grappling with as they attempt to balance what information needs to be accessible in real time and what can be stored for historical analysis. The SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) Near-Line Storage rapid-deployment solution facilitates seamless data transfer between the business warehouse and the near-line storage that holds historical data. This, the company says, helps limit a business' burden around housing volumes of big data while also creating an online and accelerated retrieval system with the near-line storage.
SAP is strengthening its commitment to the developer community with key open source contributions, a real-time development experience for SAP HANA, and the publication of a new unified developer license.
SAP will be the Diamond Sponsor for the Independent SAP Technical User Group (ISUG-TECH) conference, which will be held April 14-17 at the Hilton, Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. The event will provide three full days of technical content and SAP will be providing a significant amount of that content, said Mike Harrold, executive director of ISUG-TECH.
Think About It
Not all Hadoop packages offer a unique distribution of the Hadoop core, but all attempt to offer a differentiated value proposition through additional software utilities, hardware, or cloud packaging. Against that backdrop, Intel's distribution of Hadoop might appear to be an odd duck since Intel is not in the habit of offering software frameworks, and the brand, while ubiquitous, is not associated specifically with Hadoop, databases or big data software. However, given its excellent partnerships across the computer industry, Intel has support from a variety of vendors, including Oracle and SAP, and many of the innovations in its distribution show real promise.