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Confusing cocktail of document licensing in SAP’s Hana strategy

SAP wants its customers to migrate from ECC to Hana and its cloud offering and is also putting forward a new, “ambiguous” document licensing scheme. Many businesses appear to be taking their time migrating from SAP ECC to the S/4 Hana ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform. At the same time, SAP has introduced a document licensing metric that provides … Read more

SAP extends Hana’s reach beyond enterprise applications

The benefits of Hana Cloud Services are clear to Asia-Pacific customers, although actual adoption will boil down to cost. When SAP unveiled its Hana in-memory database in 2010, Hasso Plattner, co-founder of the German software giant, envisioned all operational data in SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to be held in the flagship database. And by storing data on … Read more