E3 Category: The opinion of the SAP community

Now it's here, the Hana Enterprise Cloud. Editor-in-chief Färbinger forced me to watch the recording of the Plattner/Sikka presentation from Palo Alto. I was horrified! Now SAP has finally become an American show company of sales and marketing. It's high time I went to Walldorf to see what's going on.

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.

Cluster - to some ears, the term sounds like a relic from years long gone. Why would we still need something like that in the age of cloud and virtualization?

Presumably, Hana diffusion is happening faster than many had thought. In the BW environment, it is almost common practice to replace classic systems with Hana. Suse is helping to underpin the success of SAP in-memory technology as a kind of SAP application completer.

I was pleased to read this sentence on Spiegel Online, where a report holds Microsoft partly responsible for the crash of the PC market. One of my deputies has had a Lenovo notebook with Windows 8 since the beginning of this year - I haven't heard the good man swear so much in years. What sounds funny is a serious problem:...

You have to understand, make ten out of one, let the license go, and make Hana the same, so SAP is rich, lose the R/3, out of hard and soft, that's what Jim says, make Suite on Hana, that's it, and ERP is one, and BW is none, that's Walldorf 101. (Freely adapted from Goethe)

Thousands of trade visitors, journalists, developers and executives travel to Hannover every year for the world's largest computer trade fair (we can safely disregard those onlookers who merely stock up on office supplies and sweets).

SAP Business ByDesign had a really tough start. First it took forever for the software announced by SAP to become available, then it was positioned with immense advertising effort - as far as I remember, there were even TV and cinema commercials and ads everywhere.

The short answer is SAP Note 1524246 - Relationship of licenses and business functions. The long answer starts in 2008 and could still cost us existing customers a lot of license fees, because EhP functions can become really expensive directly and indirectly.

Those who use Business Suite solutions - or the All-in-One midmarket solutions based on them - have always had freedom of choice when it comes to the operating system platform. For some time now, this option has also been available to Business One users. Thanks to SAP Hana, they can now enjoy the benefits of Linux.

"Hello, good old Europe! This is co-CEO Jim Snabe. I'm going to Palo Alto to get help!"