Trends Report

SAP Shows Progress On Its Cloud, Mobile, And In-Memory Innovation Agenda

July 13th, 2011
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China Martens
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Paul Hamerman
With contributor:
Connie Moore

Summary

At its recent Sapphire Now user conference, SAP confidently extolled the virtues of in-memory computing, mobility, and on-demand applications as key innovation pillars, with social collaboration as an emerging fourth pillar. The veteran on-premises enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor has set forth the astounding goal to have 1 billion people using its software by 2015. SAP is betting that its portfolio of mobile technologies and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, along with its in-memory computing platform, will help it reach that goal. The vendor's evolving product strategy means that current SAP customers stand to benefit from higher levels of usability and insight in complementary cloud, in-memory, and mobile apps. Customers new to SAP can benefit from solutions that are more quickly deployable and supported as SaaS.

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