Musings of a geek turned marketer...
Cross posted from The Pivotal POV Blog…
The latest release of GemFire XD, version 1.4 is now available for download. its biggest improvements include single hop inserts for 50% faster performance, and support for JSON document objects in SQL tables. This makes GemFire XD even better for write-intensive use cases, such as high-speed ingest. Also, now we can support use cases that need more schema flexibility to the otherwise well-defined relational structure of GemFire XD.
Cross-posted from my first blog published on LinkedIn…
Not only did I recently join Pivotal Software, I found my way into the swag closet…
I’m proud to announce that I have joined the marketing team at Pivotal Software.
There’s a special kind of excitement in helping build a business that you know can change the world. I’m excited to have a chance to work with the many talented people here at Pivotal, and be part of an amazing company and culture dedicated to helping customers create new innovations in big data.
This was a fun skunk works video project my team did after we launched the SAP Idea Incubator crowd sourcing community for SAP HANA customers. Check out SAP Idea Incubator at http://incubator.saphana.com.
It was mostly shot by iPhone and Google Hangout. The music is all creative commons from SoundCloud.
SANDisk customer story – they used SAP River to rapidly develop a POC of a custom application on SAP HANA.
Customer story of NetApp using SAP River to develop an innovative custom application POC on SAP HANA.
Cross posted at the blog at SAPHANA.com…
As I leave the HANA 2014 conference in Orlando this week, I am simply impressed with the enthusiasm I felt from a room full of enterprise architects looking for ways to support innovation for their companies with SAP HANA.
When I was asked to present at SAP Insider’s HANA 2014 Conference in Orlando about business innovation as it relates to SAP HANA, one of my favorite topics, I jumped at the opportunity. I was pleasantly surprised to find a room full of eager attendees waiting for me at my 8:30AM session this morning.
I always start by asking a few questions to get to know my audience. At HANA 2014 for both my sessions the audience responded as follows to my unscientific poll:
As I said, the poll was unscientific and audience members did answer multiple times in the poll choices.
You can get an idea of the perspective and interest of the people attending a session about building innovative custom applications on SAP HANA. They were not developers, but they were very interested in hearing about how they could support developers in creating innovative applications on SAP HANA.
While it’s not my intention to recreate my session in blog form, I have some interesting takeaways for myself as a result of interactions with the attendees in my sessions. Check out the slides of my presentation on Slideshare.
1. When it comes to fostering a “culture of invention” 90% of my attendees companies appear not to partake in more forward looking approaches such as holding company Hackathons or cross functional innovation days with employees. Nor do many of them partake in crowd sourcing programs such as Kaggle, or check out SAP’s crowd sourcing program for SAP HANA customers: SAP Idea Incubator.
2. Audience members appreciated my “3 Questions to know if you have a SAP HANA Application” slide. Many of their questions were related to geospatial data capabilities of SAP HANA and predictive analytics functionality.
[SOURCE: © SAP, used with permission] Three questions for determining if your custom application might be suitable for developing on SAP HANA.
Previously posted by me for the blog at SAPHANA.com.
We have just unveiled a new kind of crowd sourcing campaign on SAP Idea Incubator – “Open Ideas” which feature completely open business cases, data sets, and results.
Our first project in this category, “Help Build an Open Source Administrative Tool for SAP HANA” (login required) exactly fits this definition. Proposed by IBM Global Services, they ask the following from the SAP HANA community:
Here is a short demonstration of what the proposer is looking for with this idea:
Originally posted on Oct 22, 2013 at SAPHANA.com…
In Silicon Valley, many of the start-ups birthed or relocated here are out to replace incumbent technology companies and disrupt entire industries. Venture capitalists only invest when they think they’ve found those new companies who have the chance to shoot for the moon, even if it’s a big challenge. They mitigate their risk by betting on several companies at the same time.
“Disruption” isn’t the kind of conversation that SAP has with it’s customers. Instead, SAP speaks of “non-disruptive evolution” in terms of lower order change and “business transformation” in the case of higher order change.
Business transformation is a high-value retooling of existing business models allowing companies to realize new opportunities.
[SOURCE] © Elvert Barnes, used according to Creative Commons License
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo forming part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
[SOURCE] Photo taken by Sebastian Bergmann
I love this fascinating video by The RSA that replicated its way through Facebook last year. It features a lecture by renowned psychiatrist Ian McGilchrist discussing our divided left and right brain.
This blog is inspired by the article “Slow Ideas” in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande which discusses how some innovations spread swiftly, but many important ones are much slower, mostly because they involve changing people and culture.
“Slow Ideas” starts off with a history lesson of the adoption of anesthesia versus antiseptics, both incredibly novel advancements in medicine discovered in the mid 1800’s. Anesthesia turned out to be adopted much more quickly than antiseptics simply because it had immediate, obvious benefit to a surgeon’s experience. Imagine not having to rush through a treatment on a thrashing painful patient. Antispectics, on the other hand, provided a benefit to patients that was only realized over many days, and was dependent on many factors being made antiseptic, and later, sterile.
Reenactment of first etherized operation.
[SOURCE] This image is in the public domain due to its age.
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