Top 3 Cloud Conceptions from SAPPHIRE NOW

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Christine Donato.

If you read my blog last week, Cracking the Cloud Conceptions, wait no longer. As promised, I interviewed each SAP customer I met at SAPPHIRE NOW Orlando and asked the following: What do you think about the cloud? I asked if their company ran business in the cloud, the benefits of the cloud, and their general opinion of cloud computing overall.

Cloud computing is a concept that everyone is speaking, breathing, and hearing over and over again, but do we really understand what it means? As SAP moves towards its mission of simplifying everything to do anything, the cloud is going to play a major role in the success of SAP customers…

“Can I have a minute of your time?”

Day 1 of SAPPHIRE NOW started with a bang as Bill McDermott announced:

• The new SAP Simple Finance solution with the integrated SuccessFactors/Fieldglass/Ariba cloud
• That SAP will now provide SAP Fiori for free with all software purchases and
• The need to break business complexity…

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