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• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  SAP indirect access debate tackled in new licensing model

  SAP wants to resolve the indirect-access issue with a new, document-based licensing model. Analysts think customers will be happy, but SAP needs to build trust.

• March 30, 2018 30 Mar'18

  Demand-driven MRP an upgrade for SAP digital supply chain

  SAP and Accenture announced plans to develop DDMRP functions for SAP Integrated Business Planning; SAP DataGenius Challenge tries to get March Madness predictions right.

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  SAP Ariba Live focuses on procurement for purpose

  SAP Ariba Live 2018 focused on the idea that businesses can use procurement technology to do good in the world; for example, by using supply chains to expose forced child labor.

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  SAP debuts consumption-based pricing model for SAP Cloud

  SAP Cloud Platform is now available as a consumption-based model, an alternative to the subscription model. SAP also updated the SCP SDK for iOS and released two new apps.

• February 23, 2018 23 Feb'18

  SAP buys lead-to-money leader CallidusCloud to take on Salesforce

  SAP paid $2.4 billion to acquire lead-to-money vendor CallidusCloud, and analysts agree that the significant price may be worth it in an effort to compete with Salesforce.

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• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  SAP HANA and Esri integration leads to geospatial database platform

  SAP and Esri are combining SAP HANA's in-memory database capabilities with Esri geospatial applications, and utilities are taking advantage to integrate GIS and enterprise data.

• December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17

  S/4HANA-Azure partnership to benefit SAP cloud applications

  SAP and Microsoft partner on running SAP S/4HANA on the Azure cloud: Microsoft deploys S/4HANA on Azure to run finances and SAP puts cloud applications on Azure.

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Microsoft turns to SAP Ariba for digital supply chain needs

  In the past few years, Microsoft ramped up its production of devices, like the Xbox and Surface, which greatly increased the complexity of its supply chain, leading it to implement SAP Ariba.

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  SAP TechEd 2017 focuses on next-gen development tools

  At SAP TechEd 2017, SAP rolled out some new developer tools that are intended to extend the SAP platform and drive development of SAP Leonardo applications.

• October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17

  SAP Tennis Analytics serves up real-time statistics for WTA

  SAP Tennis Analytics uses SAP Leonardo machine learning and SAP Predictive Analytics to deliver tennis insights. The NHL puts its entire league history into HANA Enterprise Cloud.

• October 20, 2017 20 Oct'17

  SAP boosts data integration with SAP Data Hub and Vora

  SAP Data Hub and Vora are both data integration tools, but Data Hub has a broad mission to manage data from different sources, while Vora focuses specifically on big data lakes.

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  SAP promotes blockchain services, suggests IoT use cases

  Blockchain use cases for business are still limited, but SAP believes the new SAP Leonardo Blockchain Co-innovation program will help foster adoption.

• October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17

  Why SAP Leonardo depends on design thinking methodology

  In this Q&A, SAP's Mike Flannagan explains the evolving nature of SAP Leonardo and how a design thinking process can help businesses implement Leonardo technologies faster.

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  SAP Data Hub debuts at SAP TechEd 2017

  SAP bolstered its claim as a cloud-first company with several announcements at TechEd 2017, including Data Hub and ABAP running on SAP Cloud Platform.

• August 07, 2017 07 Aug'17

  SAP Ariba adds IBM Watson technology to procurement processes

  SAP Ariba and IBM are partnering to combine SAP Leonardo and IBM Watson technology to create cognitive procurement applications. The deal looks good to some, but lacks details.