Weekly Cloud review: Incumbent vendors embrace new reality of enterprise computing

Grazed from SiliconAngle.  Author: Maria Deutscher.

Traditional enterprise vendors are embracing the public cloud as software-as-a-service continues to disrupt on-premise applications. SAP, for one, is already well along its way in transforming into a cloud services company, and it marked another milestone in its journey this week with the introduction of a hosted business operations suite.

SAP Business Suite via the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is powered by the company’s in-memory database and features all the apps in the standard on-premise edition, including its widely-used enterprise resource management (ERP) and customer, vendor, supply chain and product management solutions…


The offering will be available on a subscription basis from regional data centers, enabling global customers to avoid the added compliance risk associated with keeping business information in remote locations where different regulations may apply…

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