Posts Tagged ‘SAP’

Some people have described Hasso Plattner’s visionary speech at Sapphire earlier this month, “as the beginning of the end of the relational database as the mainstay of enterprise computing” (http://tinyurl.com/o8j3sz). In his keynote titled “The Power of Speed”, Plattner, SAP Chairman and co-founder, focused on the need for new software that enables business to move much faster and change the way work is done. He stated that companies today collect “unbelievable amounts of data,” (noting that the average SAP customer has seven to 10 years’ worth of data on disk) and that “how we digest that data is slow, and it’s getting slower because of the increased sizes of databases.”  Read More…

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I read with interest the other day that Teradata was expanding their go-to-market efforts with SAP. Their stated approach is “consolidation of all data on one database platform will support joint SAP-Teradata customers’ efforts to standardize and rationalize their IT investments while lowering their total cost of ownership”. What does this really mean for customers? It means watch out for the pitfalls of putting all your eggs in one basket when it comes to data warehousing. Read More…

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