Sat.Jan 05, 2013 - Fri.Jan 11, 2013

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The Anatomy of an SAP event

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There are a few truisms when it comes to an SAP event: a) The production quality is usually slick In my review of 2012 events, I complimented Sapphire's excellent event production. Today, SAP is planning as my friend Predrag (PJ).

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Enterprise Software the secular trends

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This time of the year, many folks like to look at the year back or the year forward. This old fart has been in and around enterprise software for three decades so I like to take a somewhat longer look.

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NetSuite deepens Retail presence

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I have written about the attractiveness of NetSuite’s cross-channel “commerce-as-a-service” capabilities to fast growing retailers like Ibex. Ibex uses NetSuite to manage customer interactions across smartphones, tablets, PCs and brick-and-mortar stores. So, I am not surprised to see NetSuite acquire.

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The SAP Fanboy

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“Rubbish” responded John Appleby to a tweet of mine which pointed out SAP evolves very slowly and that 95% of its revenues still come from older ECC and Business Objects licenses and maintenance. A few documents later the official numbers.

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Here comes the Gold Stack

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SAP today announced its apps would run on its in-memory engine HANA. My reaction, as a CIO, would be “Here we go – the Gold stack now” (Gold as in prominent in the German flag and in SAP’s gold plated.

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So you want to be a (big) data hero?

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Listen to tech vendors and the tool – HANA or Hadoop – is guaranteed to make you a data hero. Watch IBM commercials and each of their employees must already be a data hero. Data heroes are elusive, and get.

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More New Renaissance

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on the innovation blog Kaggle’s algorithms Our low-tech cruise Whole Foods Cracked The “Big Data’ of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count Taking embedded technology to new heights The evolution of the video game Whole Genome Sequencing The Digital Dead Sea.

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