| Wednesday, November 14, 2012 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | SAP Takes Big Step Putting CRM On Hana For years now, SAP has said its Hana in-memory database would eventually support both analytic uses and core transactional applications. That day has finally arrived. SAP on Tuesday reached the first major milestone in running applications in memory with the release of an update of Hana together with a preview release of the SAP 360 Customer solution, a package clearly aimed at competing with Salesforce.com. Under the hood is SAP CRM, an updated core, on-premises application tuned to run on Hana. SAP's announcement was made at SAP's Sapphire Now event in Madrid, where the vendor also announced the anticipated release of SAP Financials OnDemand. But the center of attention was Hana. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS | | | |  | | DOWNLOAD DARK READING'S DIGITAL ISSUE Recent breaches have tarnished digital certificates, the Web security technology. The new, all-digital 'Digital Certificates'issue of Dark Reading gives five reasons to keep it going. DOWNLOAD NOW FREE (Registration Required) | |
 COMMENTARY IT's Future: Less Building, More Bundling By Eric Lundquist The future of corporate IT is less about building stuff and more about tying stuff together. I suppose this might be obvious to some folks, but it is worthwhile to step back and take a look at what is happening to business technology, budgets, and the state of the IT profession. Consider the following three developments: CMOs spend lots on tech, HR has become a major player, and IT has a new primary role--bundling. How To Overcome Social Business Performance Obstacles By Dion Hinchcliffe The good news: We now know that organizations that use social media in their business activities do indeed generally see positive results. The data, both survey and otherwise, over the years makes that increasingly clear. Often, perhaps most of the time, it comes from amplifying an existing business process, such as marketing or worker collaboration. Sometimes, although less frequently, it comes from rethinking how business itself is done and redesigning operations from the ground up around social. What's Killing Application Performance Management? By Art Wittmann It's not precisely clear that the cloud is killing application performance management, but something is. It could be that cash-strapped IT teams whose application portfolios are changing rapidly can't give APM the time and resources to do it right, so they're using APM, at least as we classically have seen it, less and less. Then there are the tools themselves, which are notoriously hard to set up. And there's the rise of software as a service and apps running from public- or private-cloud infrastructures. If you had a working APM methodology a few years ago, it has been broken by the use of cloud apps. Whatever the cause, our October 2012 survey on APM shows the tech is now seen as less important than it was in our August 2010 survey. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By PatrickH: "What a paradox is at work here: IT is being forced to give up control of tech decision-making at the line-of-business level, while at the same time it's being called to assert more in the areas of security, compliance, and reliability. Ouch. Going to be tough for lots of CIOs and IT departments who aren't willing to adapt to what is a subtle, yet significant, change in roles. But you're right to be hopeful, too. I heard some IT mavericks speak recently and they all railed as much against the old IT stringencies as I'm sure many a biz user has." In reply to: IT's Future: Less Building, More Bundling View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Research: 2012 Big Data And Analytics Staffing Survey Demand for big data and analytics experts is on the rise, but it will take years for the supply to catch up. Our InformationWeek 2012 State of IT Staffing Survey finds that 40 percent of respondents who cited big data and analytics as a top area of staffing growth expect personnel increases of 11 percent or more in the next two years. One study estimates a shortfall of at least 140,000 positions by 2018. So how are employers coping? Through a mix of hiring, contracting, and retraining existing staff.
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