SAPPHIRE NOW – TechEd 2012 Madrid Wrap-up

• November 22, 2012
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SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW & TechEd 2012 in Madrid wrapped up a Nov 16th and a few select members of our portal team were lucky enough to attend.

Special SAP HANA Presentation with Philips and Telemundo

Firstly, we aided in a presentation with Philips International and Telemundo. The session titled, “Innovate with SAP HANA and a New Program to Spark Entrepreneurial Spirit”  discussed breakthrough solutions that supported real-time social media analytics, strategic planning, and more, using SAP HANA for in-memory computing.

 

 

 

SAP was filming the presentation professionally and mentioned that it will be publically available in due time after the show. If you wish for more information on this topic, please contact us.

SAPPHIRE NOW / TechEd 2012 Madrid Wrap-up

SAPPHIRE has always been huge – many booths from partners and many client presentations. And as with every show we attend, we are always go home with a few thoughts. Below are a few notes and what our impressions were from this year’s event in Spain:

• SAPPHIRE NOW / SAP TechEd Madrid had 11,000 participants
  • By comparison, Orlando SAPPHIRE / ASUG in May 2012 saw 15,000 and TechEd Las Vegas had 6,000 visitors
• The SAP Portal team was very happy with attendance. Portal hands-on workshops where almost booked out. One was with 100 participants; the other in the morning had around 70.
• Clients where asking very good questions around the portal
• Portal for mobile was very important for clients, many questions and feedback at Q&A booths
• Cloud Portal is still very important for SAP and also requested from clients
• Rumors were spread around the next Portal 7.4. (Unfortunately we cannot disclose detailed information about that)
• Microsoft had quite a bit of attention with their new surface tablets – even featured by SAP in the key note presentation

For those of you interested in watching the replays from both the Madrid 2012 conferences check out the links below:

• SAPPHIRE NOW video replay
• TechEd 2012 video replay

See you at the next show …

 

About SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd Madrid

SAP’s once a year technical education conference, TechEd, offers hands-on workshops, demo-driven lectures, and Q&A sessions on the latest developments in analytics, mobile, cloud, database, in-memory computing (including SAP HANA) and much more.

SAPPHIRE NOW focuses on learning detailed best practices from other SAP customers and presents a great opportunity to gain valuable insight from SAP users specific to your industry.

For more details on the conference, see the home page of SAPPHIRE NOW & SAP TechEd Madrid 2012

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