Business analytics can help organizations use data to find insights that lead to new opportunities and address issues unrecognized before. One player in this market is Datawatch, known for its tools for information optimization and harvesting value from big data including content and documents. I assessed the company earlier this year, and recently our firm recognized its customers’ achievements with 2013 Ventana Research Leadership Awards for Information Optimization with Phelps County Regional Medical Center and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) with The Fauquier Bank.
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Topics:
Big Data,
SAP,
GRC,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Panopticon,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Information Management,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CEP,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Discovery,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
SAP HANA,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
At this year’s annual SAP user conference, SAPPHIRE, the technology giant showed advances in its cloud and in-memory computing efforts. It has completed the migration of its conventional application suite and portfolio of tools to operate on SAP HANA, its in-memory computing platform, and made improvements in its cloud computing environment, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. The last time I analyzed SAP HANA was when it won our firm’s 2012 Overall IT Technology Innovation Award. Now HANA has been transitioned from just a database technology into a broad platform. SAP wisely consolidated its efforts previously known as SAP NetWeaver into SAP HANA. This resolves some confusion regarding HANA and NetWeaver in the cloud, which I assessed. The recently announced SAP HANA Platform now provides the enterprise class of HANA implementation in the cloud. It comes with a trial edition of the data and visual discovery technology now called SAP Lumira, whose price has been reduced to encourage adoption (and which I discuss more below). The use of in-memory databases for big data is accelerating: According to our technology innovation research, 22 percent of organizations are planning to use this technology over the next two years, and through 2015 it will have a higher growth rate than other approaches.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Predictive Analytics,
SAP,
Social Media,
Teradata,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
HP,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
CMO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
SAP EPM,
SAP HANA,
SAP Lumira,
SAPPHIRE,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Tagetik,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
At the SAP TechEd conference in Las Vegas this week, the global software giant unveiled the latest versions of its technology, platforms and applications across the cloud, mobile and on premises. SAP executive Vishal Sikka followed up in person to his written response to the statements Oracle CEO and Chairman Larry Ellison made at Oracle OpenWorld on the limited nature of SAP’s HANA in-memory computing technology. Sikka presented a SAP HANA server with 100 terabytes of DRAM processing 1 petabyte of raw data to counter Ellison’s commentary, and Oracle has yet to release its comparable Exadata X3 appliance. SAP also announced that SAP HANA Cloud is available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide anyone the opportunity to use the technology, though the AWS version will be limited in the size of data it can process in its in-memory environment. Amazon’s Andy Jassy, the senior vice president of AWS, spoke about the company’s work with SAP to advance cloud computing’s utility for developers.
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Topics:
Big Data,
SAP,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Information Management (IM),
SAP HANA,
SAP NetWeaver
