taraneon international blog Saturday afternoon, an hour to go before the game kicks off and the manager and players have gathered to discuss strategy and tactics. What you can and should expect to see is that every player – including the substitutes – knows about the overall game plan. The defenders understand the strategy the strikers want to follow, the midfielders know everything about the tactics the defenders intend to use. They all have a need to know.
SAP's HANA is hot, but still needs to mature The potential of SAP's HANA in-memory computing engine permeated the agenda and had attendees' tongues wagging this week at the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas, but the technology still has some maturing to do. SAP has relentlessly promoted HANA since its launch in May 2010, touting its ability to quickly analyze large amounts of business data and reporting major early interest from customers. Over time, SAP plans to weave HANA throughout its portfolio as part of a sweeping "renewal," but in reality, the product only went into general availability in June, and detailed stories of customers successfully using it in production have so far been scarce.
Forrester Blogs Outside of BPM, one of my other passions is mentoring college students through the process of launching new startups. I enjoy helping students tighten up their business ideas and seeing them build business plans that can attract the funding they need to stand up and implement their ventures. Recently, after reviewing and providing feedback on a student’s business plan, the student responded, “I can launch my business without a business plan; all this planning seems like a waste of time.” At first, I thought he was joking. However, I could read by the look on his face that he was serious.
SAP's HANA roadmap: does it convince? Yesterday, SAP announced what it called a roadmap for HANA. HANA is SAP's take on the idea of in-memory technology for enterprise applications. In reality, the announcement was a selection of planned applications scheduled for release later this year. That's not a roadmap. It's a statement of intent. SAP has to do far better than that while at the same time providing its two million strong developer community a reason to listen. SAP’s Hana Analytics May Pay Off as Software Trumps Hardware SAP AG (SAP), the German software maker whose sales outpaced those of Oracle Corp. (ORCL) last quarter for the first time in 2 1/2 years, has a new weapon to defend its decision not to add hardware to its mainstay business. At the heart of the newly found momentum is SAP’s Hana offering, which allows clients including BASF SE and Colgate- Palmolive Co. to speed up the analysis of business data. The amount of prospective sales for Hana is “very, very large and growing very, very quickly,” Chief Technology Officer Vishal Sikka said in an interview. “We have never seen anything of this kind of growth before.” The 400 million-euro ($571 million) pipeline for Hana, which was officially released in June, is the biggest in the history of Walldorf, Germany-based SAP, the largest maker of business-management software.
List of top open source BPM / workflow solution » Software for Enterprise Every organization has their very own distinct business processes which differentiates them from their competitors. Some companies have predefined processes while some have processes which are defined by the employees themselves. Imagine what would happen if each customer support representative have their own way of managing a customer. SAP rolls out new in-memory applications for HANA The family of specialized applications for SAP's HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) in-memory computing engine is growing, with a new application that allows utilities to crunch information from smart meters, and another that companies can use to run sophisticated profitability analyses on financial data, SAP said Tuesday at the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas. HANA, which was first announced last year, is available in appliance form on hardware from a number of vendors. Built in part upon existing products at SAP, HANA places data to be processed in RAM, versus reading it off disks, which provides a performance boost. [ Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter. | Get the latest insight on the tech news that matters from InfoWorld's Tech Watch blog. ]
SOA - Service-Oriented Architecture See also the client-server model, a progenitor concept A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a design pattern in which software/application components provide services to other software/application components via a protocol, typically over a network and in a loosely-coupled way. The principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology.[1] A service is a self-contained unit of functionality, such as retrieving an online bank statement.[2] By that definition, a service is a discretely invokable operation.
Vijay's thoughts on all things big and small SAP had a great quarter – and deserves kudos for that. Not a surprise either that maintenance revenue is the big contributor. Despite what analysts say about disruption and other such stuff – when you have a stable and committed install base, they are not going anywhere in a hurry. So SAP can take reasonable time to get new revenue streams. Installing Java (JDK) and Setting JAVA_HOME in Ubuntu (Linux) I know lot of you starting out new as Linux users or Java learners on Linux platform find it an issue to install JDK or may be configure it to start using after installing. At time the version of java that comes with the package manager (apt-get for Ubuntu) would be an older version and you would require you to download the compressed binaries. In any case I have outlined how to configure in both the cases. Case: 1 - You would have to download the required JDK binary package from here . And follow the Steps for Case-1 below.
Jim Snabe, co-CEO SAP explains current business drivers The enterprise market has seen a succession of strong quarters. IBM delivered a strong Q2 and uplifted its full year outlook. Yesterday, SAP did the same. Although not exactly comparable, Oracle posted a strong finish to its financial year.
Getting Started Introduction This document describes how to install and configure ActiveMQ 4.x/5.x for both Unix and Windows' platforms. Document Organization The Getting Started Guide for ActiveMQ 4.x document contains the following sections: Vijay's thoughts on all things big and small I am going to Madrid next week to attend SAPPHIRENOW. SAP is paying for my flight, hotel and admission. As I am preparing for the trip, I thought I will share the questions I am looking to get answers. My understanding at the moment is that HANA will bring in 100M Euros this year. It is quite impressive for a 1.0 product, and SAP deserves kudos for getting customers to buy HANA in a bad economy.