SAP Solution: ESA

The SAP headquarters in Walldorf is similar to the Gallic village from the comic book series Asterix. SAP is strong and independent to the point of being a hermitage.

Munich Re uses new service from SAP and the European Space Agency to protect customers from natural disasters based on Hana and ESA satellite data.

New in-memory platform to make SAP fit for digital transformation and help companies bridge the gap between agility and stability.

What analysts predict for the IT scene is tradition for the SAP community. Schizophrenic thinking is an ERP survival strategy for the existing SAP customer.

When the IT world was still in order: The server manufacturers supplied the operating system. Mostly it was Unix and sometimes VMS for DEC-VAX servers. From Oracle came the database. Later, IBM came along with DB2. And Microsoft tried to sneak in with Windows NT and the young SQL server. R/3 was sitting on top of all of them, and SAP conquered the...