SAP’s HANA on Business Suite announcement today was an incredible powerful statement on driving innovation to new levels. SAP also set a new benchmark for other database vendors in the market place. It is going to be fun to see how the folks that pushes Oracle, DB2 and SQL responds.
Many of us at EMC have made the statements in the last 9-12 months that the HANA platform is an opportunity to do something new by taking your existing data sets, using them as a competitive advantage through analytics. Doing something you are already doing faster could be valuable depending on your use case, but it’s not innovation in my opinion.
I found myself in a discussion yesterday with a business partner discussing how we can jointly come up with new ideas, solve problems that most SAP customers are dealing with and bring better value to our customers. It made…
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