The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

HANA, SAP’s in-memory computing engine has factored into SAP conversations for a couple of years now. Often HANA and in-memory computing are associated with “big data”, and hence associated with big companies. So the introduction of a HANA product for SAP Business One (more…)

Database management needs don’t necessarily scale according to the size of budget. Medium-sized enterprises with modest means often have data management requirements as prickly as those of their larger, richer counterparts. Doing more with less means finding a relational database management system (RDBMS) that can deliver big-time database capabilities at an affordable cost. (more…)

In a previous blog post, guest contributor Cindy Jutras, president of Mint Jutras, outlined the advantages of taking a platform approach, combining applications with database and technology. But in taking such approach Cindy cautioned against sacrificing functionality or performance. In that post Cindy set the stage (more…)

In April 2012, SAP announced the general availability of Sybase ASE as a supported database option for the SAP Business All-in-One solutions. SAP partners and their customers should evaluate this new option. Why? Because (more…)

A colleague and I were recently discussing a report by McKinsey Global Institute titled “Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity”. I said I was surprised that it only mentions data quality once in the entire 143 pages. My colleague said it is meant to show executives the business value of the massive amounts of data being collected, and executives generally at best give data quality lip service.

I have to admit I got a little upset and got on my soapbox about how information integrity was the foundation for getting business value from data. I used the spreadsheet example to validate my point of view that executives should care about information integrity.

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