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Download this comprehensive guide to help you understand SAP HANA and determine how best to leverage it in your organization. These customer case studies and expert insights from across the SAP ecosystem form the roadmap you need to plan your organization's SAP HANA journey.
by Aiaz Kazi, SAP
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At its core, SAP HANA is a platform that has been engineered from the ground up to do things in a new way — it provides a new way to manage data and a new way to build and deliver applications. In this executive address from Aiaz Kazi, Senior Vice President Technology and Innovation Platform Strategy at SAP, you'll learn about how SAP HANA supports the innovative efforts of developers and provides a platform that enables them to build applications that wouldn't have been feasible in the past.
by Kaustav Mitra, SAP, and Anders Ranum, SAP Ventures
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SAP has always tried to remain true to its roots as an innovative startup company, even as it has grown into an industry leader. And when SAP developed SAP HANA, it saw the opportunity to work with other startup companies, providing them with the tools they need to develop creative new SAP HANA-based solutions and use cases. In this Q&A, you'll learn more about this new initiative, called the SAP Startup Focus program, from Kaustav Mitra, Vice President and Global Program Lead of the SAP Startup Focus, and Anders Ranum, Venture Partner at SAP Ventures.
by Ron Wessels, SAP
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Since the ability to innovate is such a critical cornerstone for any successful startup company, SAP quickly realized that startups were perfect candidates to come up with exciting new SAP HANA use cases. That's one reason why SAP launched the SAP Startup Focus program, which provides talented startups with the tools, support, and motivation to work with SAP HANA. In this article, you'll learn more about the program, how to get involved, and what it means for SAP customers.
by Swapan Saha, Greg Chase, and Sapan Panigrahi, SAP
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SAP HANA One provides an instant deployment option that facilitates smaller SAP HANA projects and applications that are not easily accommodated by on-premise system procurement cycles. This cloud instance also means that users can turn SAP HANA on and off easily, allowing them to take advantage of it in their projects and to shut it off to save money when they no longer need it. In this piece, you'll learn more about SAP HANA One and its use cases.
by David Sonnenschein, SAP
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With SAP HANA, developers are given a platform with the capabilities they need to create game-changing applications. This article gives you a look at some of the key components of the SAP HANA platform and provides a glimpse at the features and functions that make the platform so compelling for developers.
by SAP and partners
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Companies today are facing a number of financial challenges, from market and regulation changes, to mounting pressure on margins and profitability. On top of that, business teams from all areas of the enterprise are now turning to the finance department, seeking its input on business unit-specific financial issues. In this special report, you’ll hear from SAP’s Dr. Winfried Schmitt, as well as expert SAP partners, about the technologies, services, and best practices that can support the financials department as they work to overcome these challenges and become a more strategic adviser to the business.
by Rahul Asthana and Suresh Ramakrishnan, SAP
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Using a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering has become an increasingly important part of the way developers create and provision applications. Disentangling the hype around these PaaS offerings is the first step to realizing the kinds of opportunities that PaaS brings. This article explores the questions you will need to ask yourself to help you understand which PaaS offering is the right one for your organization so you can set your applications on a course for success.
by Matthias Haendly, SAP
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With technology advancing at an incredible speed, IT departments are becoming the center of attention and demand. They face the challenge of implementing new innovations, yet are also responsible for reducing complexity and cost — quite a high order. To help, many IT departments are turning to virtualization. This article takes a closer look at how SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management and SAP’s cloud offerings can help simplify SAP landscapes and lower costs.
by Mimi Spier and Isabelle Nuage, SAP
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The amount of data available to organizations today is amazing. Without the right technology, however, all of this rich data is simply clutter. Read this article to see how predictive analytics and business intelligence (BI) tools can help you capture, analyze, predict, and visualize massive amounts of information so you can solve your most critical business challenges.
by SAP and partners
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At this point, the benefits of mobilizing your business are clear and most organizations have taken the first steps toward reaching that goal. Now it is important to focus on the next piece — finding the right enterprise mobile apps that fit your specific business needs. This special report, kicked off with an article from SAP's Bernd-Uwe Pagel, showcases high-quality mobile apps and explores app strategy tips that can help companies overcome their specific challenges and reach their mobile goals.
by John Krakowski and Evan Stoddard, SAP
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SAP Solution Manager provides everything you need to derive maximum value from your SAP solution environment, combining tools, content, and direct access to SAP to manage everything from deployment to solution monitoring and improvement. In this article, you’ll learn about mobile apps for SAP Solution Manager and how they can help you further optimize both your core business processes and your IT infrastructure to get the most from your SAP investments.
by Dr. Stephen Hirsch, SAP
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Advanced mobile technology has completely changed the way we live our lives, including how we conduct business and how we learn. Being able to access any information, anytime, anywhere, is incredibly powerful. With this in mind, SAP Education designed its new mobile learning application, SAP Learn Now. Read this article to see how your organization can benefit from detailed process simulations, comprehensive materials, and the SAP Learn Now online community.
by Terry Orsborn, SAP
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IT landscapes are becoming more complex and varied across industries. But, even with all of this change, a relational database management systems (RDBMS) remains at the core of an enterprise’s information management portfolio. This article looks at the five factors — reliability, adaptability, scalability, predictability, and manageability — that are imperative to seek out when choosing the right RDBMS for your organization.
by Klaus Weber, SAP, and Joseph (Jay) Bellissimo, IBM
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As business become more complex with new innovations and changing demands, companies want to work with best-in-class providers but with one single point of contact to add some much-needed simplicity. Recognizing this need, SAP Custom Development and IBM launched an initiative that combines the strengths of both organizations to deliver a single, end-to-end, individualized solution to the customer through one point of accountability. Read this article to learn more about SAP and IBM’s end-to-end custom solutions.
by Oliver Betz and Matthias Stenzl, SAP
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Delivering a great user experience is a key to increasing employee productivity, allowing users to complete tasks with fewer clicks, and decreasing time spent on data entry and data gathering. For SAP customers looking to create a unique, tailored experience for their business users, SAP has two key offerings: SAP Screen Personas (software that allows customers who use the classical SAP to personalize and simplify their experience without writing any code) and UX Services (a custom development service that can help build a new, competitively differentiating user experience on top of a company’s existing SAP and non-SAP business applications). In this article, you’ll explore both offerings and learn more about use cases for each.
by Lenore Johnson, Rebecca Newell, Cindy Morel, Bil Khan, Wendy Maldonado, SAP
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To help companies meet the unique needs of their business and industry niches, SAP offers select solution extensions that integrate directly into your existing landscape, providing increased business value to complement the SAP business solutions you already have in place. In this special report, you can explore several of these solution extensions in more detail and take a look at the benefits the various tools can bring to an organization.
by Aviad Rivlin, SAP
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For companies wondering where to start their mobile initiatives, the first consideration should be existing landscapes and infrastructures. For instance, if you already run an SAP portal, you can use SAP NetWeaver Portal, mobile edition to build a mobile infrastructure. When used on a mobile device, this mobile portal edition acts as a web and role-based aggregation layer for structured and unstructured content, web and native mobile applications, and SAP and non-SAP applications. In this article, you’ll learn more about SAP NetWeaver Portal, mobile edition and how it can help you enter the mobile world.
by Regine Schimmer, Jens Koster, and Frane Milicevic, SAP
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SAP NetWeaver Single Sign-On has helped companies increase user productivity and cost savings by allowing users to log on just once and eliminate the need for multiple system login credentials and passwords. With the success of the first version of this product, SAP developers are working to enhance the tool with a variety of new features. This article takes a look at the types of scenarios SAP NetWeaver Single Sign-On enable and some of the enhanced functionality that users can look forward to in the 2.0 version of the solution.
by Helmut Stefani, SAP
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All of the complexity and risk that comes with today's increased data loads and new technologies creates an enormous challenge as enterprises seek to keep IT infrastructures manageable and affordable. To help its customers meet this challenge, SAP is using the same principles of innovation that led to the breakthrough of revolutionary technologies, such as SAP HANA, to help simplify the way systems and data volumes are managed. Read this article to learn more about the solutions, such as updates to SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management, that can help you save time and money.
by Karl Kessler, SAP AG
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To take advantage of today’s technology trends, you need comprehensive platform capabilities that can support what you’re doing now and what you’re planning for the future. Read this article to see how SAP NetWeaver 7.4 and SAP HANA Cloud form an application infrastructure and technology platform that provides powerful support for investments in the cloud, mobility, and in-memory technologies.
by Andreas Giraud, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG group
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Informational events are a key part of DSAG’s efforts to help its members learn about SAP technology and how they can best take advantage of it. For instance, in February, the group held DSAG Technology Days, an annual meeting where DSAG members can find information about their technology-related interests and concerns. Read this article to learn more about this event and what it covered.
by Jennifer Cofer and Bob Oldrati, ASUG
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The incredible advancements in mobile and online technologies have changed the way many people approach education. However, as we explore in this article, there are still some key benefits to in-person learning and face-to-face events.
by David Hannon, insiderRESEARCH, with additional analysis by Ethan Jewett, independent analyst
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by SAP and Partners
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