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richard_hirsch · 03-03-2015

At the recent Hybris Global Partner Summit in Munich, hybris-as-a-service (yaaS) was introduced as a modern commerce platform based on microservices (it is now in beta ). I’ve blogged about YaaS in the past in conjunction with SAP’s PaaS – HANA Clo...

Are you ready for S4HANA? · 01-16-2015

At the recent series of SAP Field Kick-Off Meeting ( FKOM ) sales events, I noticed that there were various #FKOM tweets with an unfamiliar hashtag #S4HANA – some of these tweets included a new logo.Since I didn’t attend the private events and no of...

richard_hirsch · 09-19-2014

At 2 a.m. this morning, our cat woke me up and I had a quick look at the news feed on my iPad. I saw the announcement that SAP was going to acquire Concur and I rolled over, went back to sleep and had strange dreams that I promptly forgot upon waking...

richard_hirsch · 09-15-2014

After this year’s Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, the HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) was everywhere and was the integral technology of many of SAP’s cloud innovations announced at the conference.Simple FinanceThe result is SAP Simple Finance, based ...

richard_hirsch · 09-15-2014

I am a close observer of SAP’s cloud activities / strategy. I read every related forum post on SCN and read every SCN blog / content that concerns this platform. This summer I have been looking for examples of adoption of its PaaS – HANA Cloud Plat...

richard_hirsch · 03-17-2016

Hi,You've added the link to OnPrem release notes in the first paragraph. I'm missing the link to the release notes for the cloud version. 1603 should have been released yesterday. I'm also looking for release notes for older cloud releases. D.

richard_hirsch · 11-09-2015

You forgot one very important aspect of the BOSH OpenStack CPI project which was recently announced: the participation of SUSE in this effort. The associated press release also included a quote from Björn. "As long-time partners, SAP has worked with ...

richard_hirsch · 09-10-2015

You guys might want to provide more information about how you designed the service. It would probably be useful for others to see the process that you used. D.

richard_hirsch · 09-07-2015

Hi, In my recent blog about HCP and the emergence of the new business services, I did some analysis of the tax service. D.

richard_hirsch · 03-07-2015

SAP Cloud is a very very broad term - including any number of solutions (Success Factors, Ariba, FieldGlass, etc). What about differences between HANA Enterprise Cloud vs HANA Cloud Platform vs. SaaS solution?dick

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Are you ready for S4HANA?

A gut reaction to the planned acquisition of Concur by SAP

Whatever happened to the HANA Enterprise Cloud?

A quick analysis of two industry solutions for #saphcp: Why aren’t there more such apps?

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