E3 Category: MAG 17-03

At the turn of the year, news came from the USA that journalism schools and non-profit institutions for communication and journalism were registering an increased volume of donations - what was interesting about this news was the fact that it was predominantly very many small donations and not, as in the past, a few large donations from altruistic millionaires. In certain areas of society...

Hasso Plattner saw it in California at Apple, Google, Amazon and Salesforce: Cloud computing is the future! Now his fear is that SAP will no longer exist in a few years unless Bill McDermott and Luka Mucic also push the ERP group in the direction of the "cloud".

The topic of mobility of business applications and improved user acceptance continues to be an exciting topic with potential in the SAP universe. Not least because many companies are still working with the familiar, but not very user-friendly interfaces.

62 percent of German companies have not yet heard of digital platforms. One in two companies that are looking at platform markets have discovered platforms relevant to their own business - and are using them.

SAP stops selling licenses for NetWeaver Foundation for Third Party Applications.

Cormeta is one of the top midmarket Hana service providers. In their independent study ,,SAP Hana Service Providers in Comparison", the analysts at Experton Group and West Trax evaluated the Hana experts on the market.

I have often called for long-term, verified and strategic SAP roadmaps here. The current minimal outlooks are neither complete nor useful. Panic turns into chaos: Because SAP no longer has a strategy, the Executive Board is reacting erratically.

According to a recent study, mobile security incidents lead to six-figure losses in every fourth company. The situation has worsened compared to 2015.

As the partner country of CeBIT 2017, Japan is presenting its vision of the digital future - with the largest exhibition of its kind in CeBIT history.

With Mixed Reality Production 4.0, researchers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence are presenting new, cross-location forms of human-robot collaboration (MRC) at CeBIT.

Edward Snowden speaks to visitors at the CeBIT Global Conferences via video link from his Russian exile.

With the enhanced xSuite, isolated technical solutions can be eliminated and end-to-end digital processes can be established.