SAP - What's Changed?

This blog aims to provide a whirlwind tour of the most recent trends in data management, and to explain what those trends mean and why they’re important.

An announcement was made yesterday (October 14th) that SAP have chosen IBM as a premier strategic provider of cloud infrastructure services.

How things are going now, after Marlin Equity Partners' acquisition of Uniface has had time to bed in a bit.

SAP finally drops the Sybase name.

SAP has just released version 16 of what used to be Sybase ASE. This release is very much focused on big data for OLTP.

While there are trends towards including more discovery capability and towards supporting NoSQL the vendors are significantly fragmented at present.

There are several distinct market sectors within data migration. For example, there are specific application migrations to, for example, the latest version of SAP.

In many ways data cleansing is a commoditised market, albeit that data quality issues are still not as widely recognised, or dealt with, as they should be.

The market for data governance is diffuse. Historically, there have been, and remain, several different sectors...

Entota, the (SAP) data migration specialist has been acquired by BackOffice Associates.

In this paper we will not only discuss what big data is and why you might want to deploy big data analytics but also what sort of facilities you need when combining Hadoop with a traditional warehouse.

At the end of September this year (20th September), SAP announced their intention to acquire business-to-business integration provider Crossgate.

Sybase is in the news following its possible purchase by SAP but it still seems to have a good technology story apart from that.

IDS Scheer announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SAP America Inc. This Memorandum is concerned with supporting SAP in its efforts to build a partner ecosystem and distribution model for SAP® Business ByDesign.