SAP Solution: apple

The official title of SAP's annual event is "Sapphire Now," but "Sapphire Vintage" would naturally be much more appropriate. Once again, the technology company Apple was on the Sapphire stage.

Nevertheless, many smartphone, PC and notebook users decide against Apple: They don't want to be trapped in a golden cage.

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".

Is it fear of an impending danger, does Hasso Plattner know something we don't know yet? Or is it fear of an uncertain, indefinable ERP future?

The partnership between Apple and SAP is set to revolutionize work with iPhones and iPads - and at the end of these devices' lifecycles. SAP is grasping at any straw to save its Hana business. Apple is making a virtue out of necessity.

The tablet inventor and iTunes innovator allies itself with the ERP monopolist.

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:...