The Customer Magazine 1|2010
Need to Get Users Excited About Software
Following its new mantra of solutions with instant value, SAP is transforming itself to be faster and more customer-oriented. SAP Spectrum talks with Jim Hagemann Snabe to find out how the company aims to achieve this.
Touching Lives With Technology
Some of the people who work the phones for Deutsche Post DHL’s human resources hotline are blind. Along with special resources for the visually impaired, they use the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution to carry out their daily tasks.
Grabbing the Tiger by the Tail
The financial crisis, the drive toward internationalization, and SAP Enterprise Support services were three topics weighing heavily on the minds of SAP user companies in Japan last year.
07.05.2009
Off to New Horizons
By: Michael Zipf
Virtualization technologies are a must for companies that want to manage their computer centers more efficiently. SAP’s third annual Virtualization Week in Silicon Valley gave lots of answers.
SAP Virtualization Week in Palo Alto, California (Photo: SAP AG)
Experts agree that “virtualization” and “cloud computing” are currently the most overused buzzwords in the IT industry. But there’s good reason for this. After all, all companies are on the lookout for ways to manage their budgets more effectively and reduce operating and capital costs.
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Yet these IT trends seem to be the perfect way to cut costs, react more rapidly to new requirements, and at the same time minimize a company’s impact on the environment.
However, there’s also consensus among experts that cloud computing is still very much in its infancy – and that most companies don’t have any idea about whether or how they should shift business processes to a third-party on-demand infrastructure beyond their own company boundaries.
Virtualization and server landscapes
Virtualization – a Hot Topic
At the end of 2008, market researchers at Gartner revealed the importance that industry attaches to virtualization. In fact, virtualization was given the number one slot in Gartner’s top 10 list of most important strategic technologies for 2009.
In contrast, virtualization has taken hold in many organizations as the basis for operating computer centers. An increasing number of companies are opting for virtualization, particularly for their server landscapes.
But virtualization has a myriad of other benefits, as SAP’s third annual Virtualization Week held at SAP Labs North America in Palo Alto, California made clear.
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