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  • NS2 Serves Sponsors 'Call to Action' Forum to Back Veteran Employment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NS2 Serves Sponsors ‘Call to Action’ Forum to Back Veteran Employment

    A nonprofit organization established by SAP NS2, the U.S. national security-focused subsidiary of SAP, sponsored a reception on Capitol Hill Nov. 18 to center around the theme of “Improving the Well-Being, Employment Status and Opportunities Available to Post-9/11 Veterans and Their Families.” NS2 Serves helped facilitate the event in an effort to further advocate for programs to bring veterans into […] More

  • SAP Plans $150M Investment in Australian Digital Service Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Plans $150M Investment in Australian Digital Service Facilities

    SAP‘s Australian business plans to invest $150 million over a five-year period in the future SAP Institute of Digital Government and a new data center in Canberra, Inside SAP reported Monday. Freya Purnell reports that the data center will offer SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services to support citizen services and cloud-first policies at Australian federal government agencies. The SAP Institute of […] More

  • Jonathan Becher Named SAP’s First Chief Digital Officer; Bill McDermott Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jonathan Becher Named SAP’s First Chief Digital Officer; Bill McDermott Comments

    Jonathan Becher, formerly chief marketing officer for SAP, will be the company’s inaugural chief digital officer in charge of the newly formed digital business segment. SAP said Monday Becher will help manage the company’s potential expansion into the content and data markets as it centralizes its online service delivery operations onto the SAP Store. “Jonathan will not only be responsible for […] More

  • MicroMarket Monitor Pegs Predictive Analytics Market Growth at 24.5% Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MicroMarket Monitor Pegs Predictive Analytics Market Growth at 24.5% Through 2019

    MicroMarket Monitor projects at North America’s predictive analytics market will hit a 24.5 percent compound annual growth rate until 2019, HealthITAnalytics said Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick writes the report also pegs the growth of predictive technology global market at 32.3 percent during the same forecast period. The report shows that North American organizations account for 38.8 percent of the global market. MicroMarket Monitor cited SAP, IBM and […] More

  • SAP to Embed HERE Maps in HANA Platform; Hinnerk Gildhoff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP to Embed HERE Maps in HANA Platform; Hinnerk Gildhoff Comments

    SAP and Nokia‘s HERE company have agreed to bundle HERE’s base maps into the SAP HANA platform in an effort to help clients gain insights into geo-content points. SAP will offer HERE maps as a component of the SAP HANA service pack 9 scheduled for release in December, Nokia said Tuesday. “We anticipate that the geo-content and services provided by the HERE platform, […] More

  • SAP Unveils 3 Cloud-Based Tools for Internet of Things; Bernd Leukert Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Unveils 3 Cloud-Based Tools for Internet of Things; Bernd Leukert Comments

    SAP has launched three new products that work to leverage the computing, analytics and event processing functions of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform to support the Internet of Things. “The Internet of Things has the potential to dramatically improve responsiveness of businesses, reimagine customer experience and open up new opportunities and brand new business models such as […] More

  • Quentin Clark Joins SAP as CTO; Bernd Leukert Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Quentin Clark Joins SAP as CTO; Bernd Leukert Comments

    Quentin Clark, formerly corporate vice president of Microsoft’s data platform group, has joined SAP SE as chief technology officer. He will report to Bernd Leukert, executive board member of SAP products and innovation, and be responsible for the company’s effort to shape its technology brand, SAP said Thursday. “I am very pleased to have Quentin join SAP,” said Leukert. […] More

  • Executive Profile: Steve Risseeuw, SAP VP for DoD Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Steve Risseeuw, SAP VP for DoD Operations

    Steve Risseeuw has served as vice president of Defense Department operations at SAP since February 2013 and is a more than 15-year information technology veteran. He oversees a range of SAP software products for the defense and commercial sectors and provides guidance on the organization’s business development, sales, account management and strategic programs. Risseeuw previously managed […] More

  • Mark Testoni: SAP to Offer US Agencies Cloud Package With 'Secured Support' Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Testoni: SAP to Offer US Agencies Cloud Package With ‘Secured Support’ Options

    SAP and its U.S. subsidiary SAP National Security Services have developed a new managed cloud package for U.S. federal agencies to host government and custom applications and operations. SAP said Thursday it worked with agencies to develop a portfolio that combines cloud, hosted and on-premise functions to meet particular agency needs and regulatory or security requirements. The company designed the cloud offering to comply with the National Institute […] More

  • Red Hat, SAP Release Mobile Data Mgmt Cartridge; Julio Tapia Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, SAP Release Mobile Data Mgmt Cartridge; Julio Tapia Comments

    Red Hat and SAP have released a mobile data management cartridge for SAP SQL Anywhere that works to support remote and mobile application development and synchronization with MySQL-based applications in Red Hat’s OpenShift. Red Hat said Monday the cartridge is part of its ongoing partnership with SAP to support database and application development for different operating systems, services and […] More

  • Hitachi Offers Logical Partitioning Tech for SAP HANA; Mike Walkey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Offers Logical Partitioning Tech for SAP HANA; Mike Walkey Comments

    Hitachi and its subsidiary Hitachi Data Systems have unveiled an x86-based logical partitioning solution for SAP HANA to support server virtualization and network consolidation on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid cloud environment. The company said Sunday Hitachi LPAR works to provide computing and storage functions for system utilization and to streamline operations with a consolidated infrastructure. Mike Walkey, senior vice president for […] More

  • Cisco Launches New SAP HANA Server; Anthony Reynolds Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Launches New SAP HANA Server; Anthony Reynolds Comments

    Cisco has moved to expand its server portfolio for SAP HANA platform through the launch of a new server product. The company designed the newly-certified 8 socket C880 to work with SAP analytics and suite on HANA workloads, Cisco said Thursday. Satinder Sethi writes Cisco collaborated with SAP on the certification of the C880 server platform. “We are pleased that Cisco Systems […] More