SAP-Solution: HanaDB

When the IT world was still in order: The server manufacturers supplied the operating system. Mostly it was Unix and sometimes VMS for DEC-VAX servers. From Oracle came the database. Later, IBM came along with DB2. And Microsoft tried to sneak in with Windows NT and the young SQL server. R/3 was sitting on top of all of them, and SAP conquered the...

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.

DSAG and SAP are once again a harmonious pair, prescribing ways for existing customers to stay fit for innovation. Unofficially, other problems plague SAP users. As writer Peter Handke once pointed out in "The Inside World of the Outside World of the Inside World.

Something is moving in the factory and in logistics. Naturally, there have been more than enough megatrends and buzzwords in the past 20 years. CIM, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, was one of the first.