SAP SAPPHIRE 2011 Multimedia Coverage from theCube and SiliconANGLE.tv
Original Content: SiliconAngle and Wikibon filmed 3 days of videos at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, FL, May 16-18, 2011.
SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe: Now Is The Time to Innovate
Now is the time for both SAP and its customers to innovate, not consolidate, according to Jim Hagemann Snabe. Speaking to Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier from the floor of SAP SAPPHIRE 2011, the SAP Co-CEO talked about SAP’s new in-memory analytic appliance, called HANA, as well as the company’s mobile and cloud computing strategies.
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From its new in-memory analytic appliance called HANA to a revamped mobile Sybase platform, SAP is pouring on the innovation. It’s SAP CIO Oliver Bussman’s job to implement the technology internally. Bussman stopped by theCube at SAP SAPPHIRE to explain how SAP runs on SAP.
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SAP is well known in the enterprise community, but SAP’s Jonathan Becher said the company is making a concerted effort to reach out to the consumer market. Speaking live in theCube, Becher, SAP’s Executive Vice President of Marketing, also touted SAP’s “open ecosystem” and its ongoing tradition of collaboration with customers and partners. Watch the full interview here.
Cloud computing is changing the way enterprise software vendors like SAP deliver products. Sanjay Poonen, SAP’s President of Global Solutions and Go-To-Market, goes live inside theCube to discuss the way on-demand computing is impacting SAP and its relationship with customers, as well as how the vendor is leveraging cloud computing both internally and externally. Watch the full interview here.
SAP’s enterprise applications and Sybase’s mobile platform give SAP customers a significant competitive differentiator, according to Sanjay Chikarmane, SAP’s Senior Vice President of Technology Solutions. Chikarmane stopped by theCube to talk about how SAP is leveraging Sybase, as well as what SAP is doing to help customers move to virtualized environments and how in-memory analytics appliances like HANA is speeding up business decision making. Watch the full interview here.
Business ByDesign, SAP’s on-demand business application suite for small and mid-sized businesses, recently notched its 500th customer and is starting to gain traction in the mid-market, according to Rainer Zinow. Zinow, who oversees Business ByDesign at SAP, also explained how SAP is able to introduce innovation without disrupting customers’ current operations. Watch the full interview here.
Transcription of Rainer's interview
Mark Yolton, Senior Vice President of SAP Community Networks, explains how the SAP community has evolved over the years from a highly technical developer network to also include project managers and functional consultants. Yolton also discussed SAP’s higher education initiative to prepare students for careers in enterprise application development and support. Watch the full interview here.
SAP has over 170,000 customers and each one demands both stability from their current SAP investments as well as innovative new technologies from the German software giant. “That’s a big task for SAP and we take that very seriously,” Goerke told Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier live from the floor of SAP SAPPHIRE 2011. Watch the full interview here.
"We don’t have enough trees and data centers for the generation that we are breeding,” said Siki Giunta, Vice President of Cloud Computing at CSC. Speaking live in theCube from the floor of SAP SAPPHIRE 2011, Giunta said that means cloud computing will become increasingly vital to enterprise software deployments and is already changing the way CSC interacts with its customers today. Watch the full interview here.
Columbia Sportswear is in the midst of a major software transition, migrating from Oracle JD Edwards to SAP’s ERP platform, according to Bob Kaila, SAP Basis Manager at the company. Kaila has responsibility for both applications and infrastructure at Columbia Sportswear, and he tells David Vellante and John Furrier how he manages the balance during the migration. Watch the full interview here.
Its not widely known, but SAP has long been in the software OEM business, according to Mark Milford, Vice President of Business Development at the German software maker. Speaking live in theCube from the floor of SAP SAPPHIRE 2011, Milford told Dave Vellante and John Furrier SAP has over 800 OEM partners and is the largest business intelligence OEM provider on the planet. Watch the full interview here.
SAP customer Wolffkran, a mid-sized crane manufacturer in Europe, goes live inside theCube from the floor of SAP SAPPHIRE 2011 to discuss how his company transformed its service operations from a slow, paper-based system to a fully automated one with SAP. Watch the full interview here.
EMC is on its way to a 100% virtualized environment, and that includes SAP ERP and business intelligence applications, said Tony Pagliarulo, Vice President of Information Technology, Services Delivery Group at EMC. As both an SAP partner and customer, EMC aims to optimize SAP application performance. Watch the full interview here.
Transcription of Tony's interview
For most people, business analytics falls into one of two camps: Basic reporting or complex statistical modeling. But organizations should take a wider view of business analytics to include both camps and everything in between, according to Stephanie Buscemi, SAP’s Group Vice President of Marketing for Business Analytics. Buscemi stopped by theCube at SAP SAPPHIRE 2011 along with James Fisher, who oversees SAP’s EPM and Finance Solutions group, to discuss SAP’s evolving view of business analytics. Watch the full interview here.
Conventional wisdom posits that SAP acquired Sybase largely for its mobile platform. But the acquisition will also help SAP make in-roads in emerging markets, particularly China, according to Ray Wang, CEO and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. Pulling data out of SAP applications is also a main cpncern of customers, Wang said live in theCube at SAP SAPPHIRE 2011. Watch the full interview here.
Pinkberry Ventures, a frozen yogurt retailer, deployed SAP’s on-demand ERP platform, Business ByDesign, in just 12 weeks, according to Judson Wickham, Pinkberry’s Business Systems Analyst. The implementation, Judson told Dave Vellante and John Furrier live in theCube from SAP SAPPHIRE 20011, was “the shortest I’ve ever been a part of.” Watch the full interview here.
The biggest challenges customers are experiencing are around database management, performance management, and change management, according to Blake Yule, Sales/Alliances Manager, America’s at EMC. Cloud computing is helping solve these problems, Yule said, along with tighter integration between SAP and EMC’s products. Secure-24 COO Volker Straub also stops by theCube to discuss his company’s partnerships with EMC and others. Watch the full interview here.
More than any technological innovations, the biggest transformation in IT over the last 10 years has been the shift to a more business-centric focus, according to Mike O’Dell. “It’s less about the isolated IT shop and more about the business,” said O’Dell, CIO at Pacific Coast Companies, speaking live in theCube from the floor of SAP SAPPHIRE. For vendors like SAP, that means the technology has to be less complex so customers can focus more on the business-side. Watch the full interview here.
Compound innovation – or the integration of multiple technologies -- is the key to solving the world’s “big problems,” according to Vinnie Mirchandani. Mirchandani, owner of Deal Architect and world-renowned author, stopped by theCube at SAP SAPPHIRE to discuss the notion of compound innovation and to give viewers a sneak-peak of his new book, The Technology Switch-Hitter. Watch the full interview here.
Customers are sending the message that they want to move to virtualized, often x86-type platforms, and NetApp is listening, according to Patrick Rogers, NetApp’s Vice President of Alliances. NetApp, an SAP partner, is working with SAP to help customers roll out SAP applications faster, Rogers told Dave Vellante and John Furrier live inside theCube from the floor of SAP SAPPHIRE 2011. Watch the full interview here.
Ian Kimbell, SAP’s Vice President of Business Process Validation, said SAP will deliver up to 50 new mobile applications by the end of 2011, as the German software maker looks to leverage its acquisition of mobile platform vendor Sybase. Kimbell stopped by theCube to show viewers a number of examples of SAP mobile applications in action on the iPad. Watch the full interview here.
Big Data has been around for years, according to George Mathew, Group Vice President & General Manager of Business Intelligence at SAP. “I think the velocity and change of how Big Data is effectively consumed, the rate of increase, that’s the differentiation, the change that’s happening in the market,” Mathew told Dave Vellante and John Furrier live inside theCube from the floor of SAP SAPPHIRE 2011. Watch the full interview here.
SAP Mentors created their own certification program and met as a group for the first time at SAP SAPPHIRE 2011. SAP Mentors Director Mark Finnern stopped by theCube from the show floor to share with Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier just what makes the SAP mentor community so influential. Watch the full interview here.
While some might think the adoption of in-memory analytic appliances like SAP HANA might mean trouble for storage vendors like EMC, that’s not the case, according to EMC Vice President & General Manager, Advanced Technology Doc D’Errico. D’Errico went live inside theCube at SAP SAPPHIRE 2011 to explain why SAP and EMC are partnering closer than ever. Watch the full interview here.
Wikibon article on SAP's HANA and EMC's Project Lightning
SAP is first and foremost an enterprise software company, but with software comes a lot of data, according to Keith Costello, Executive Vice President of Business Analytics Solutions at SAP. That’s why SAP developed a line of industry-specific data analytic applications, Costello told Dave Vellante and John Furrier live inside theCube at SAP SAPPHIRE 2011. Watch the full interview here.