E3 Category: MAG 13-07

Schadenfreude is not an honorable virtue. When I read the reports on Spiegel Online about the Prism spying program of the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency), I had to think of all my critics: Why doesn't this CIO dare to go into the cloud? He who laughs last laughs best.

Social Collaboration (SC) in Germany: Companies must abandon the tendency toward German perfection.

Companies today no longer want to be tied to just one software provider, not even SAP. They want to use the software that offers them the best functions at the lowest cost, whether it runs in the cloud or on their own servers (on-premise).

From our point of view, it is still highly interesting to follow SAP's mobility strategy.

Thanks to cloud, Hana and mobile, SAP is off to a strong start in 2013, in line with IDC's 2013 predictions that 90 percent of IT market growth will come from "3rd Platform" technologies between 2013 and 2020.

Salesforce.com unveiled Salesforce Platform Mobile Services at the beginning of April to secure its share of the growing mobile application development market.

SAP Cloud Computing hits the ground running. Did you know that the SAP Cloud Enabler LVM is historically derived from the Adaptive Computing Controller, ACC for short - whose initial implementation took place on Suse Linux at the turn of the millennium? It's worth taking a look back to sharpen your view ahead.