Unveiling A Longer Term Vision for SAP HANA One – New Article in SAP Insider

My latest article for SAP Insider, co-written with my developer colleagues, has just been posted.

“SAP HANA One Illuminates new Possibilities” is a deeper dive into the subject of  my blog “SAP HANA One – SAP HANA in a Light Bulb.”

For those of you already familiar with SAP HANA One, what’s new for you in the article is that we reveal a longer vision for the SAP HANA One bundle:

The Future of SAP HANA in the Cloud

SAP HANA One continues to evolve at a rapid pace, updating at least quarterly to include functionality from new versions of SAP HANA software and datasets. Planned future updates will include SAP HANA support package stack 6, as well as templates and adapters for scenarios that may include:

• MySQL application data connectors
• Elastic turbo-charging of specific SAP ERP business processes
• Public sector-specific applications, such as healthcare fraud detection and education
• Powerful bundled server-side business intelligence tools

Hypocritical Innovators, Making Smartphones Smart, Salesforce Promises to be Green, and SAP HANA Crowns Hadoop

Some Good, Fast Reads From Last Week

Greetings Geek Marketing readers.

The last couple of weeks I have been pouring my heart into developing content for a few new initiatives I’m involved with. This has left me with little time to keep the Geek Marketing blog fresh. However, I’m very much looking forward to sharing some awesome things my various teams are developing.

In the meantime, there are a few blogs I read over the last week that I keep thinking about, so I thought I’d share them with you. No, they aren’t in any particular theme, just some cool stuff.

[SOURCE: © raider of gin, used according to Creative Commons License]

Coming out of my content cave to share some good reads…

Where SAP HANA and SAP HANA One Fits Into Modern Application Architecture

Cross posted from my blog at SAP Community Network:

Yesterday Jeffrey Hammond, VP and Principal Analyst with Forrester, posted an excellent blog laying out a vision for modern custom enterprise application architecture.  In his blog, “The Best Way to Develop Mobile Apps? Don’t Develop Mobile Apps!”, Mr. Hammond makes the point that custom application projects shouldn’t just be thinking about an app that fits a mobile device, but take a system engineering approach considering modern technologies and architectural trends such as cloud computing, web services, and big data in addition to mobile device platforms. What I especially like about his blog is his simple explanation of how these fit to create applications with the following characteristics:

• Omnichannel
• Elastic
• API-oriented
• Responsive
• Organic
• Contextual

Modern application architecture based on mobile platforms, cloud computing, big data, and web services – reality or Munchkin Land?

SAP HANA One – SAP HANA in a Light Bulb

Cross posted from my blog at SAPHANA.com…

Consider for a moment what SAP HANA would be like if it were a light bulb? I don’t mean 25 megawatts of lighting for a small city, just a single 30 watt bulb. Two things should be immediately obvious. First, you could turn it on and off instantly. Need light? Turn it on. Don’t need it anymore? Turn it off and save electricity. Second, it would be very good for lighting a room, but too dim for lighting a football field at night. In this analogy, the 30 watt light bulb would be SAP HANA One – SAP HANA in the public cloud.

Characteristics That Make SAP HANA Use Cases Suitable for Cloud Deployment

Cross posted from my blog at the SAP Community Network…

So I’ve decided to take an approach that might sound backwards: discussing use cases and opportunities for a certain deployment option of SAP HANA without first looking at business requirements. While I’d never start a business case this way, I think it’s instructive to decompose the technical characteristics of cloud applications, see how they mesh with the characteristics of SAP HANA applications, and relate these to potential requirements of use cases.

 Typical Characteristics of Cloud Applications

Those more familiar with traditional SAP HANA deployments may be less familiar with the world of native cloud applications.The best definition of cloud computing that I’ve seen was created by the National Institute of Standards. Part of this definition of cloud computing is 5 essential characteristics:

• On-demand self-service
• Broad network access
• Resource pooling
• Elasticity
• Measured service

While the service model in which you subscribe to a cloud application may not provide the subscriber of a service all these characteristics, they are inherent in the supporting infrastructure.

[SOURCE: From ASUG 2012 Annual Conference © SAP and Asuret, used with permission]

How Platform-as-a-Service Turns Business Ideas into Business Innovation

My latest article for download: How Platform-as-a-Service Turns Business Ideas into Business Innovation

Or see in the online version of SAP Insider.