by Andrew White | May 16, 2013 | 4 Comments
Overall, Sapphire 2013 for me was a “coming out” party for SAP Hana. She is a debutante and now seeking dance partners. The event did not introduce any new step change in technology or SAP future. Overall the event seemed to be a call to action for the market to get into SAP Hana. As an [...]
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by Andrew White | May 16, 2012 | 1 Comment
Some years ago in the Supply Chain Space, when i2 Technologies and Manugistics were talking about ATP and Capable to Promise, I was trying to think up something unique, competitive, and innovative. I was working at American Software Inc/Logility at the time. After thinking hard about how consumer goods companies do ATP, I came up [...]
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by Andrew White | May 16, 2012 | Comments Off
I was lucky enough to spend a few days at SAP SapphireNow 2012. As you may know it’s the main SAP user conference (coupled with its user group, ASUG), in North America. Several thousand users got together to talk SAP. My overall take away is that there was nothing disruptive introduced at the event. This [...]
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by Andrew White | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
It was predictable, but Kalido has upped the ante in Governance land with the recent announcement of their new Data Governance Director™. Kalido, a BI/data warehouse vendor that moved some years ago also into the MDM market, has extended its reach nicely with a new product aimed at data governance. Many so called MDM offerings [...]
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by Andrew White | April 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
I had the good fortune of attending the SAP Insider*: Information Management event the other week (week of March 22nd) where I heard from SAP on their latest strategy and vision for “information management”, and heard from several SAP users how they are using “information management”. Of course my focus was (and is) Master Data Management (MDM). [...]
by Andrew White | May 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Unofficial Trip Report: SAP Sapphire 2009 Last week I had the good fortune of attending SAP’s annual Sapphire event in Orlando. Other than some warm weather, and some pretty exciting thunder storms, there were lots to see and hear at the event. As usual SAP put on a good “show” with lots of content, customer [...]
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by Andrew White | October 29, 2008 | Comments Off
I had the good fortune to attend IBM’s user conference this week in Las Vegas. Apparently over 7,000 folks attended – covering all of IBM IOD oriented technologies that span business intelligence, content management, and data management. First I had a few main observations: Key Note: IBM did not make any significant announcements at [...]
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Category: Convergence BA/BI IBM SAP Tags: Convergence of Business Apps (BA) and Business Intellig, IBM, Performance Management, SAP
