SAP & IT Outsourcing – RESULTS MATTER!

By |June 24th, 2014|

  Business today is looking for a way to provide shareholder value. Outsourcing has become a popular method to boost stock values because shareholders believe it will reduce costs. While your share price may increase in the short term, you may not see the cost savings, and your share price will suffer later as your cost basis increases. Unfortunately, the cost saving "dream" presented during all those sales pitches often become a "nightmare" of spiraling costs and management headaches. I [...]

Dear SAP — IT’s Past HANA TIME

By |June 16th, 2014|

In-Memory DB Recently there has been a lot of activity around in-memory database processing.  Oracle announced in-memory which it is positioning as a direct competitor to HANA [Fn1]; IBM, Microsoft, and others are getting on the "in-memory" bandwagon as well [FN2].  A quick check of Wikipedia indicates there are numerous companies claiming "in-memory" database processing as well [FN3]. Then there is the huge performance difference between Solid State Drives (SSD) and physic [...]