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December 19, 2012 by Sven Denecken

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SAP Cloud Blog Has Transitioned to the SAP Community Network

November 2, 2012 by Brad Smith

The SAP Cloud Blog has served as a great forum for expert insights, news, and analysis regarding all things SAP Cloud. It is now time for us to embark on a new journey, where we will be publishing even more fresh content utilizing the SAP Community Network and we certainly hope you will join us!

All content that has been published prior to today will remain active and viewable on this platform. Therefore, please feel free to continue researching and reading some of the great entries we have been able to publish – all thanks to our amazing team of contributors.

For more information on how to stay up-to-date with the latest and greatest surrounding SAP Cloud Solutions, you can simply click here to get started on the SAP Community Network.

Also we have several presences on Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, SlideShare, and YouTube – and we would love to stay connected with you. For your convenience, a direct link to each profile has been provided below:

If you have any questions about how to stay in contact please feel free to leave a message in the comment field of this post with any concerns you may have, or feel free to contact Schalk Viljoen, Senior Director, Business Development at SAP (email: schalk.viljoen@sap.com)

It has been a great run, but it is certainly far from over as we are dedicated to bringing you fresh, insightful, valuable content.

Yours Truly,

SAP Cloud Media Team

Interesting Feedback from SAP Customers About Hybrid Cloud in Recent Webinar

October 25, 2012 by Greg Chase

Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at an SAP webinar covering IT strategy for cloud computing and how customers are evolving a hybrid approach. This is a topic I’ve been working on since SAPPHIRE NOW Orlando this May, and I am gratified to find there is still a lot of interest in the subject. Since you can watch the recording of the webinar yourself I won’t repeat too much here. However, the attendees were very generous with their participation by asking several good questions and sharing their opinions in two interesting polls.

Adoption of Cloud Computing

In the first poll we asked attendees a multiple answer question about which ways their company has adopted cloud computing. As a result, some responders answered in more than one category, so each answer is a % of total respondents clicking that category, and percentages to the question will add up to more than 100%. To my surprise almost 30% of respondents said their company is not leveraging cloud computing. That seems very high for me, even for the most conservative SAP customers. I suspect if the IT department did an audit of the different systems their lines of business used, they’d find at least a few software services – and this doesn’t include services brought in virally by employees on their own. Also interesting is that 15% of attendees reported that they are already supporting their developers through a platform as a service. This isn’t far off from a recent IBM survey that finds 16% of their respondents use PaaS and see strategic potential, while an additional 33% use PaaS incidentally. Not included in either poll is any indication as to what each respondent considers to be the definition of “platform as a service.”

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Removing HR Blind Spots

October 24, 2012 by Sven Denecken

Managing the HR function is a bit like driving a car. Things are fast paced. Potential dangers lurk around every corner. Yet somehow we’re able to safely navigate. That is until we’re caught off-guard. It’s the car in our blind spot that causes the accident. So what’s the parallel to HR? It’s the question we didn’t ask that comes back to haunt us. Think about it. By the time we launch a query, we already suspect something. All we’re doing is looking for data to validate and quantify what we already suspect.

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Chewing on the billion user goal

October 23, 2012 by Sven Denecken

Audacious goals are great for channeling the passions of a large group behind one common objective. At SAP, our stretch goal is to have one billion users by 2015. There are numerous initiatives underway bringing us closer each day. In this blog, I’d like to discuss the role of user experience in this context. Specifically, I’d like to share another* proof point of design thinking: ”Bubblegum”.

Experience it live at HRTech Europe this week in Amstedam.