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insiderPROFILES Joshua Greenbaum In his latest column, Joshua Greenbaum explores the history that led to SAP’s decision to power SAP Business Suite with SAP HANA. He explores why the archrivalry between SAP and Oracle was so important in this development, and why SAP HANA will fuel innovation to give SAP a distinct advantage in the market.
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insiderPROFILES Manju Bansal, Senior Director and Global Program Lead for SAP HANA for Humanity, SAP When startup WeissBeerger discovered that brewers were operating in virtual darkness when it came to consumption-related trends about their products, the company designed a cloud-based dashboard tool to deliver these insights. But the ability to measure beer and liquor consumption in real time and then analyze this information is a tall order. So to make this tool a reality, WeissBeerger turned to SAP HANA.
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insiderPROFILES Q&A with Susan Bor, Senior Vice President, Talent, SAP In this Q&A with Susan Bor, SAP’s Senior Vice President of Talent, Bor describes what SAP is doing to win leading talent in the always competitive realm of technology recruiting. She also describes how the practice of “employers selling the company as aggressively as prospective candidates sell themselves” is transforming the hiring process at SAP.
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insiderPROFILES Q&A with Anja-Christina Bruehling, Vice President of Global Partner Management and Training in SAP Active Global Support As the list of SAP partners expands, so do the options for SAP customers to find the right solutions for their specific business challenges. In this Q&A with Anja-Christina Bruehling, Vice President of SAP’s Active Global Support organization, learn how SAP ensures its partners have the tools and best practices they need to work together with SAP to help customers navigate today’s highly innovative business environment.
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insiderPROFILES David Hannon, Senior Features Editor In a recent survey of 220 risk-focused SAP customers, insiderRESEARCH found that even though executives and board members understand the importance of risk management, current approaches to address it are missing the mark. To drive a true enterprise risk management program, organizations need collaborative, analytic, and predictive capabilities functioning at all levels of the enterprise — and using the right technology to deliver these capabilities is essential.
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insiderPROFILES Joshua Greenbaum While SAP has an app store of sorts in the form of an iPhone app called SAP Mobile Apps, a lot more has to happen before SAP’s mobile aspirations can be considered a success. Many companies look to Apple as the ideal model to emulate, but in fact, looking at Apple as the anti-model for SAP mobility may be the answer.
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insiderPROFILES Q&A with Dr. Jan Grasshoff, SAP Senior Vice President and Head of Talent, Leadership, and Organizational Design Dr. Jan Grasshoff, SAP Senior Vice President and Head of Talent, Leadership, and Organizational Design, believes that the most important asset to SAP is its people. In this Q&A, Dr. Grasshoff shares his perspective on human resources trends, the challenges HR teams face today, and how HR can produce happier, more-productive employees.
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insiderPROFILES Q&A with Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President, Nucleus Research Throughout 2012, SAP staked its claim in the areas of cloud, collaboration, and customer relationship management in a number of ways. Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President of Nucleus Research, discusses if last year’s emerging trends will continue in 2013, and explains the research company’s top 10 IT predictions for 2013.
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insiderPROFILES Joshua Greenbaum The new Windows 8 platform represents a potentially paradigm-busting moment for SAP, assuming that both Microsoft and SAP can see the benefits of collaborating with one another. So what exactly are these benefits, and why should SAP customers care about Windows 8? Learn the answers to these questions and more in Joshua Greenbaum’s latest column.
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insiderPROFILES David Hannon, Senior Features Editor, and Amanda McKeon, Assistant Editor In the era of big data, companies need high-level computational science and expertise as well as the right technology to truly take advantage of the benefits big data can bring. But unfortunately, this is not always the case. To ensure its customers have access to the resources necessary for an effective predictive analytics program, SAP offers the services of its Performance and Insight Optimization (PIO) organization.
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