SAP SAPPHIRE NOW Day 3 Round Up

Day 3 SAP SAPPHIRE Now Round Up from Orlando   

Martin Gillet's Dream Shot! co-CEO Jim Snabe & Bill McDermott with Hasso Plattner and the SAP Mentors. Follow Martin here and see more of his SAPPHIRE NOW Flickr album here.

SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando is over for another year but not to worry for it will be back in Madrid in November coupled with TechEd. We hope you've had a great few days and enjoyed many of the fine keynotes, tracks and of course Van Halen. 

Here is our final day round-up, a day which incuded keynotes from the Chairman of the SAP's Supervisory Board, Hasson Plattner and also Vishal Sikka - Head of Technology and Innovation - who discussed how SAP HANA is simplifying customer experiences and delivering enterprise scale. To be honest it was a very HANA focussed day!

• SAP SAPPHIRE: Hasso Plattner talks in-memory computing, slams Oracle - Andrew Nusca on ZDNET
• Accenture is investing to create a workforce of up to 1,000 professionals skilled in SAP database via Press Release / Big4.com
• SAP launches Visual Intelligence for casual BI users by Brian Bloom on IT World Canada
• SAP HANA now in 145 sites by Stuart Kennedy on Australian IT
• SAP Mobilizes ERP, Hints at Cloud Strategy, Gives HANA Big Data Support by David Roe on CMS Wire
• SAP Chairman Plattner Courts Startups, Asian Customers by Aaron Ricadela on Bloomberg
• 6 Takeaways from SAP’s Sapphire 2012 by Bill McNee on Information Mangement
  
  

Quote of the day:

“Please, please, please, my dear competition,” Plattner said, pleading, “We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don’t know and don’t want to know. Either be better informed, or don’t do it.” - Hasso Plattner


Tweet of the day (it was practically trending)

Take Note! Developer licenses for HANA and NEO are now FREE. This is huge! #SAPPHIRENOW by John Appleby (@appleby)