The News

On November 27 SAP and Microsoft announced a new level of their strategic partnership. Their key messages are that

• S/4 is fully ready to run on Azure
• Microsoft is committed to SAP and will upgrade its internal financial systems to S/4 on Azure
• SAP will move a dozen (unspecified) “key internal...

The fall conference season is in full swing. Of the big 4 we had Oracle Open World and the SAP Hybris Summit, with the Salesforce Dreamforce, SAPPHIRE, and Microsoft Connect() still to come. I have covered the SAP Hybris Summit, so do not need to say much about it anymore. The event was short on gre...

On Mach 8, 2017, SAP and Google announced another marriage in the cloud during Google’s Cloud Next event: SAP HANA is certified on Google’s Cloud Platform GCP, and is generally available now. SAP Cloud Platform and more products and solutions are to follow. The Google Cloud Launcher marketplace will...

On January 24, 2017 SAP released its results of their fiscal year 2016 – and the fourth quarter thereof. In a nutshell SAP:

• Delivered to its increased 2020 guidance
• Had an increase of 31 per cent in cloud subscription and support revenue, while still being able to increase the software license an...

On January 10, 2017, SAP announced a bundling of their IoT portfolio of initiatives to focus on business outcomes instead of technology while combining the set of emerging products and solutions under the brand name Leonardo – as in Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the most forward looking artists and inno...