It’s never too early to get pumped up for the amazing sessions at ASUG Annual Conference—and this week we released the catalog for preliminary session details for the big event in May. Check it out now! (Also take a gander at ASUG volunteer Tammy Powlas’s cool tag cloud for Annual Conference and Sapphire Now.)
So, ZDNet, you’re telling me that SAP’s Business Suite on HANA starts to win converts. Hmmmmm. Even SAP execs might a little uncomfortable with that pronouncement.
A very proud Business ByDesign customer—De Villiers Walton—is now live with a bunch of BYD modules and the “champagne corks are popping.”
HSBC says SAP shares are “overweight.” How dare y—oh wait, that’s not an insult.
Tammy Powlas checks in again (the rare double Weekly Wrap-Up mention!)—BI 4.1: What is new for mobile BI.
On the PAC blog, analyst Julia Reichhart explains the expectations of SAP partners from SAP in 2013. On HANA, she writes: “There is no doubt that HANA will play a major role in SAP environments…but the current project volumes remain small compared to the overall SAP-related market. Moreover, both SAP customers and SAP partners are still uncertain about the business cases that will fully leverage the possibilities this new technology holds.”
And SAP’s Kristen Scheffler describes a new application that makes it easier to find SAP correction notes.
On ASUGNews.com
Ariba Discovery is a “matchmaker” service that connects those buyers who are committed to finding new seller relationships. Hear about one customer’s experiences in using the Ariba service. … Companies that integrate finance systems and core ERP processes reduce the time to close their annual books by an average of 25 percent.
Quote of the Week
It’s actually really cheap.
-Kevin Schlueter, enterprise architect at The Globe & Mail, on its use of HANA One on AWS, as quoted by the IDG News Service’s Chris Kanaracus
Stat of the Week I
61%—the number of respondents to an Advanced Performance Institute survey who primarily use “office tools” to report and analyze their performance
(Source: API.com)
Stat of the Week II
$119 million—what it “cost” Workday to compete with SAP and Oracle in 2012.
(Source: ZDNet.com)
Tech Term of the Week
IMCaaS: In-memory-computing-as-a-service.
(Source: Register.com)
Tweets of the Week
@tobiashofmann: Sneak preview of #ASUG session catalog is live. 600 sessions … take your time to go through them 
http://bit.ly/XE5z9I
@oswaldxxl: My Android phone runs through battery life like Larry Ellison runs through opinions on the future of cloud computing. And legal fees.
@Nicolas_Busson: so far my experience with #sapsupport via twitter is my best experience with #sap ever! Responsive and proactive. Thx.
@orthous: For all vendors (cold-callers), please wait patiently outside my office to see if white smoke or black smoke comes out.
@fscavo: Very interesting chat with a client this morning who concludes, based on real experience, that #cloud systems do not save money
@gpmyers: #DKOM starting soon at #SAPVancouver. Get ready for a day full of uncharacteristic silence from @SAPMentors around the world.
@JohnDeVore: Is anyone else afraid that if you press a q-tip far enough into your ear canal, you’ll reboot?
@eacrett: CIO of Florida Crystals on #HANA potential – what users want is Excel like performance on ALL SAP Biz Suite data for any process and query