Live Blog: Sapphire Now, SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe on HANA in the Enterprise

What Sapphire Now symbolizes to Snabe: Sapphire symbolizes truth, sincerity, and truthfulness of relationships;

On competition: The rules in nature are simple: You are at the table eating or you’re on the table;

Big Data without HANA: Charles Darwin had to use his brain. You have to be better in natural selection. Most importantly, you have to be adaptable. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection describes the rules of business, doesn’t it?;

“The running out of resources is going to be the biggest inhibitor for businesses and people everywhere. For the first time in history we can digitize products and services and we can digitize millions of businesses and billions of people. What an opportunity”;

Our business depends on innovation to win. Businesses need to have accurate data to make decisions, not inaccurate decisions;

Retail is digitizing the shopping experience. Retailers are becoming digital enterprises;

Healthcare: The most valuable resource in healthcare is the patient. Through advanced data analytics, how HANA partners can identify route causes of particular situations. The future of healthcare is not about curing diseases, it’s about preventing diseases”;

We decided to put all data in main memory. You need data from your business, but you need your competitors’ data as well. If you combine these two, you can create winning strategies.

“HANA is the biggest innovation in the last 20 years in business software.”

We have worked with more than 100 partners on the SAP Business Suite, but it is now open for general availability;

You can optimize your business in real-time and reduce consumption. We have a company that optimizes transportation. SAP HANA is the innovative platform that runs, optimizes, and innovates. 1,500 customers on SAP HANA now. SAP HANA is a quantum leap, and it will change the game for all companies;

The second quantum leap we promised was the cloud. Why? Speed is critical. In the digital era, fast kills slow. The complexity in IT kills IT departments;

Our innovation cycle is much higher in the cloud, and you get the benefit instantly. We are a leader in the cloud today. We have more than 29 million users in the cloud today. We have more than 9.8 billion SAP Jam subscribers. (Jam is SAP’s enterprise social network platform.) Imagine the opportunity we have here;

We’re working with the first 60 customers that have shown interest in the HANA Enterprise Cloud;

The third commitment from SAP is that we want to put all attention on people and user experience. The digital era is all about people, about empowering people. We want to empower people with real-time information; and

“We are committed to deliver the most exciting user experience in the industry.” Moving all data into main memory, moving all systems to the cloud, and enormous attention on the user. “Business evolves through innovation.”