Five Minute Briefing - SAP
March 22, 2017
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 team at SAP is diving into the world of college basketball again this year to help bring sanity to March Madness through the latest innovations in the cloud analytics product SAP BusinessObjects Cloud. Using the 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball championships to highlight the value of analytics and hard data over intuition or sentiment, the Data Genius team at SAP is forecasting which of the 68 college basketball teams will advance in this year's tournament.
SAP is making a round of enhancements to the SAP Vora platform to help customers accelerate project implementations and offer speed, ease, and affordability to their enterprise business analytics. "Our goal continues to be delivering that insight from big data to the customer," said Ken Tsai, vice president, head of cloud platform and data management at SAP. "We have been on a mission to simplify big data for enterprise consumption."
The SAP HANA express edition platform is now available from Google Cloud Launcher, allowing users the space to grow and gain real-time insights. SAP HANA on GCP will be able to deliver real-time insights and run mission-critical applications and analytics on a scalable and secure cloud infrastructure. GCP will provide an automated provisioning capability of certified SAP HANA instances to deliver enterprise-grade security, high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability.
InsideView, a provider of sales and marketing solutions, is advancing its product integration with SAP Hybris Sales Cloud solutions, allowing users to sync customer and prospect data to their CRM records in real time directly from InsideView's global company and contact database.
SAP is making enhancements to its cloud platform, allowing users to take it on the go and adding comprehensive new business services to the solution. SAP plans to deliver an SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS, giving developers the tools needed to build powerful enterprise apps for iPhone and iPad devices.
ISUG-Tech News and Information
During this Webcast, you'll hear about how SAP is providing a cloud development environment for SAP ASE with its SAP Cloud Platform. Also, learn about the cloud services that are in the works for on premise SAP ASE installations through third-party cloud provides such as AWS.
Join SAP and ISUG-TECH on April 4th at the Wyndham New Yorker in New York City to meet the experts for a full-day of sessions focused on SAP Data Management products. We'll provide in-depth, technical information on SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, SAP IQ, SAP Replication Server software, and take a deep dive into the in-memory and cloud product features and capabilities.
Elevate 2017 is the first PowerBuilder user conference since Appeon began developing new versions of PowerBuilder. Appeon is committed to bringing a developer-focused conference with rich technical content to the user community.
Don't miss this next round of webcasts focusing on SAP's road maps for 2017 and beyond.