Store managers can receive real-time information on sales and make immediate decisions regarding inventory, merchandising and promotions using SAP’s High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) software ...

“Specifically SAP BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA provides three key capabilities that really evolve it to an in-memory data fabric in terms of simplicity, openness, and performance,” noted Dan Kearnan, ...

SAP has provided an extensive window into the future direction of its HANA in-memory database platform, which has emerged as the central pillar of the company’s product strategy. A lengthy HANA road ...

While SAP has made no secret of its desire to lure customers running Oracle databases over to its own HANA in-memory platform, any doubt that Oracle would fight back has been erased. Oracle CEO Larry ...

In-memory databases are fast becoming the rule and not the exception. Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Pivotal — there’s barely a major database vendor or analytics technology that isn’t getting a shot of ...

A recent study by Oxford Economics, “Real-Time Business: Playing to Win in the New Global Marketplace“, found that 30 percent of the companies surveyed have implemented some kind of real-time IT ...

It's not a mirage, Business ByDesign is coming! This week, several of the Enterprise Irregular bloggers (i.e., Jon Reed, Redmonk’s James Governor, Michael Krigsman and I) were given a briefing on ...