Yesterday, SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference attendees heard about the importance of customer experience. Today, they learned about the importance of an intelligent experience.

Hasso Plattner greeted attendees on day two with good news. “We have more than 50,000 customers with SAP HANA licenses,” he said. When SAP HANA was introduced in 2010, the development of data in the world was only 2,000 exabytes. “Now,” he said, “we have 40,000, and by 2025, I predict much more than 175,000. SAP HANA is the foundation of the intelligent enterprise.”

Before bringing Gerrit Kazmaier, SVP, SAP analytics and databases, and data management on stage with him to announce the new developments with SAP HANA, Hasso urged, “SAP HANA is too good to keep locked up in just SAP enterprise applications. The speed of innovation has to increase, and the only way forward is in the cloud.”

Looking Forward, Intelligently