SAP StreamWork analyses collaborative decision-making with strong visualization and use of data held in the SAP HANA memory store, in addition to other sources. SAP Cloud Strategy will be based on its acquired SuccessFactors business, which will be built up into a new global business unit with initially 5000 staff and launch a complete range of business apps starting with a version of SAP Payroll. SAP Visual Intelligence introduces a new generation of Business Intelligence based on HANA that allows users to ask ad hoc questions across the content held in HANA with no predefined structure. SAP ERP applications will be re-engineered to run on HANA with the claim that transactional operation can be made on HANA databases and the resulting data made useable for all types of business intelligence purposes according to direction announcements at SAP SAPPHIRE event. SAP is to acquire Ariba, a long established ecommerce services provider, to add to its new ‘Cloud services’ based business unit. www.sap.com
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