Intelligent ERP: Safeguarding Innovation From Three Common Pitfalls

By David Sweetman, Senior Director, Global Product Marketing SAP S/4HANA (Part 9 of the “The ERP Edge” series) Encouraged by the much-praised potential of process automation, IoT connectivity, predictive analytics, and other intelligent technologies, businesses see the practical potential of process automation, while creating innovations that deepen customer relationships, bring new business models, and make better…

Amazon launches big data service focused on health care

Data lake promises to keep health care organizations' information secure by: Danny Bradbury Amazon has launched another business venture, this time pushing into the health care and life sciences sectors. The company announced a preview of HealthLake, a big data service housed in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Announced at Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference, the service will help…

IoT adoption to spur growth of big data services through 2024

IoT adoption to spur growth of big data services through 2024 The growth of IoT is helping the growth of the big data services market, according to the latest analysis by global market research firm Technavio. “Adoption of IoT has increased the need for necessary tools to process the large volume of data and generate actionable…

Is SAP’s ABAP a special snowflake or has a Git run it over?

Is SAP's ABAP a special snowflake or has a Git run it over? Every now and again, a public discussion emerges around the SAP developer ecosystem that becomes an important talking point that reverberates around the SAP community. The topic of #abapGit is one such. It raises questions about the future and relevance of SAP…

Salesforce Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Slack Technologies

Slack has a market value of about $17 billion.PHOTO: THOMAS TRUTSCHEL/PHOTOTHEK/GETTY IMAGES By Cara Lombardo, Liz Hoffman and Dana Cimilluca Salesforce.com Inc. CRM -0.22% is in advanced talks to buy Slack Technologies Inc., WORK -0.19% according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would unite a giant in business software with a buzzy newcomer on a mission to replace office email. The companies could reach a deal…