Configuring pricing conditions in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Calling an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Odata service in Excel

ABAP in the SAP Cloud Platform

Does this give traditional ABAPers hope or is this too hyped?

NEWS: Oracle's Booming Cloud Business Could Rip And Replace SAP As #1 In Apps

CLOUD WARS – Cloud computing, which has already triggered massive disruptions across industries in business models and traditional pecking-orders, is giving Oracle Corp. a once-in-a-generation chance to displace arch-enemy SAP as the world leader in enterprise applications.

For decades, SAP has been the world leader in enterprise applications and Oracle has been the front-runner in enterprise databases, with both companies retaining their leadership positions in spite of the seismic shifts in the industry caused by the moves from mainframes to minicomputers to client-server to the Internet.

Oracle's recent surge in cloud-applications revenue - it sold $1 billion in SaaS apps during the quarter ended May 31 and $3.4 billion for the year give it a legitimate chance to overtake SAP as the world's #1 provider of enterprise applications, particularly in the massive cloud ERP market.

In the combined category of on-premise apps plus cloud apps, it's still not very close as SAP's revenue for that category doubles that of Oracle for the corresponding set of products and services:

• Oracle: For the 3 months ending May 31, it reported combined applications revenue of $2.86 billion: $964 million for SaaS apps and $1.9 billion for on-premise (see full details on page 10 of the Oracle press release).
• SAP: For the 3 months ending June 30, it reported combined applications revenue for cloud plus on-premise of $5.61 billion (see full details on page 7 of the SAP press release).

Read full article here.

SAP Sees Its Future in the Cloud - Bloomberg

SAP Sees Its Future in the Cloud - Bloomberg: Rob Enslin, board member of SAP, discusses SAP's push into the cloud, how their ramping up the push and where he sees growth in Asia. He speaks to Bloomberg's Angie Lau on "Asia Edge." (Source: Bloomberg)

SAP: Anywhere & Everywhere | SAP News Center

SAP: Anywhere & Everywhere | SAP News Center: "Megan Meany and Rodolpho Cardenuto have breaking news: SAP Anywhere, the newest cloud solution from SAP, is about to go live. The front-office, mobile, consumer-graded solution will rock retailers and their customers worlds. Tags: SAP Anywhere, SAP TV" -View Video

Siemens Industry Cloud runs on SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Siemens have chosen the SAP HANA Cloud platform as the foundation of their industry cloud. To find out more, listen to Dr. Peter Weckesser, CEO of Customer Service from Siemens Industry from SAPPHIRE NOW.

SAP's Cloud Bookings Jump

SAP stock jumped as much as 3.1% in early trading in the stock market today and nearly surpassed an 18-month high of 81.21 touched on Dec. 29. In early afternoon trading, though, SAP stock had trimmed the gain to a little more than 2%, near 80.
SAP, which like all software vendors is migrating more customers to a cloud model, said preliminary non-IFRS operating profit gained 7% to 2.28 billion euros ($2.47 billion), although IFRS profit slipped 3% to 1.70 billion euros, on revenue up 16% to 6.35 billion euros, where Wall Street had expected 6.07 billion euros. SAP is scheduled to release final Q4 results on Jan. 22.

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The who's who of SAP HANA cloud

Matthias Steiner has created a list of all the relevant folks in the SAP HANA Cloud world. Check it out on SCN at http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57545

SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) from a developers perspective

From a developer’s perspective, I can say that it’s always nice to try new products and see how they work. I had the privilege of being able to test out HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) during the trial period.

I really liked it! It seemed to be a tool that made it easier for developers to work on applications. It is interesting to see how much things have evolved since the start of XI 3.0, about 11 years ago. 

The environment is an online platform, which makes it very easy to develop. You do not need to download a lot of stuff to develop and enhance your projects. It is based on flows. You can send messages through the BPMN (Business Process Model Notation). You will be shown what is going on, receiving relevant details.

You don’t have the processing flow you were used to in the Process Orchestration (PO) stack. You’re basically taking a message and sending it somewhere else.

What to Consider When Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud

By Ian M. Marlow May 30, 2014 Organizations today are faced with questions of how to migrate their data to private or public clouds safely, effectively, and affordably. This includes legacy applications which were developed over time, often purpose-built by software manufacturers (or custom developed in house), and scaled widely throughout the company. Depending on […]


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