Mostly bark, little bite in SAP’s cloud offerings
May 10, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
SAP had a turbulent start in the cloud computing space. In 2010, it launched Business ByDesign as a SaaS offering to resounding yawns from the cloud computing industry. Vowing to improve, SAP did what all big companies do when they want to move quicker into a market. Innovate? Nope — it bought other companies. The shopping spree included SuccessFactors, a human resource management SaaS provider, and HANA, a sexy in-memory database and analytics engine that also serves as SAP’s big data strategy.
In its move to the Web, SAP’s actions have been a bit confusing. Months ago, SAP placed its All-in-One ERP app on Amazon Web Services as a public cloud SaaS offering — kind of. Now, it is making HANA available from its own cloud, as well as from partner public clouds…
What bothers me about SAP and cloud computing is that this company should be leading the way for its customers in the move to public and private cloud computing. Instead, it seems to be digging in its heels and passing off simple cloud application migrations as a full-blown cloud computing strategy. SAP’s millions of users won’t be fooled…
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