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  1. 2 and 4 Billion Reasons for Hitachi for UCP for SAP HANA

    Published: 14/December/2016

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Our benchmark campaign continues !   Just over a month ago we set a new world record for new 4 Billion records and I wrote a blog about it, Not 2 but 4 Billion Reasons to Choose Hitachi for your SAP HANA Environment.  Just a few weeks later, we have a new record again!  I am excited to announce that we have…

  2. How a good employee training program can help reduce turnover rates

    Published: 14/December/2016

    Reading time: 4 mins

    “What if we invest in training and the employee leaves?” “Well, what if we don’t train them and they stay?” This familiar platitude, while powerful in a water cooler conversation with co-workers, will unfortunately not inspire management to invest in a much needed employee training program. We can all agree that training is valuable in…

  3. Introduction: Unlocking The Value of Your Enterprise Data to Accelerate Business Transformation

    Published: 06/December/2016

    Reading time: 2 mins

    We frequently hear the words “Digital” and “Transformation” these days. What is it really, in the context of your business? Let’s explore what has been happening in the world around us: True Story #1 – One of the largest sporting events in United States, powered by Hitachi   True Story #2 – One of the most complex…

  4. Not 2 but 4 Billion Reasons to Choose Hitachi for your SAP HANA Environment

    Published: 06/December/2016

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Back in July I published a blog 2 Billion Reasons to Choose Hitachi for Your SAP HANA Environment where we were first for 2 Billion records.  I am excited to announce that we have now beat that now with 4 Billion records!  On Oct 26, 2016, SAP, on behalf of the SAP Benchmark Council, certified (Certification number:…

  5. Data Temperatures and Partitioning

    Published: 06/December/2016

    Reading time: 4 mins

    All you need to know about how data can be sliced up in pieces and yet kept reachable, accelerating your data-driven decisions. I was talking to an acquaintance in the industry a few days ago and was told that that their company had a data offloading solution. So how do you access the offloaded data…

  6. Showtime – “An Ecosystem of Data”, featuring IoT and Fog

    Published: 06/December/2016

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Internet of Things or IoT is the new buzz word of recent times. But then, we have been doing this for a long time – just that the concept is called IoT now. Hitachi, one of the top global manufacturing companies has been building machines and putting in sensors for several years and facilitating IoT,…

  7. 7 Principles for a Successful SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer Implementation

    Published: 02/December/2016

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Organizations look to SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer and to similar cloud solutions to cut costs, simplify infrastructure, achieve better scalability, and more. Everywhere you turn in the enterprise IT space, experts are extolling the virtues of adopting cloud solutions. Yet despite these virtues, not every cloud implementation is a success. In a survey conducted…

  8. 12 Control Issues That Can Slip Under the Radar — and How to Prevent Them

    Published: 02/December/2016

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Many organizations devote large amounts of time, money, and resources to internal controls testing. Yet in spite of these stringent tests, most businesses suffer from a multitude of controls errors — and many don’t even realize that these errors are occurring. Whether it’s due to user mistakes or intentional misuse, there are a dozen hidden…

  9. Infographic: Investigating the 5 Ws of SAP end-user training

    Published: 30/November/2016

    Reading time: 1 min

  10. Strategic Advice to Quantify the ROI of Your Employee Training Program

    Published: 18/November/2016

    Reading time: 2 mins

    A key step you may come up against when trying to establish the value of an employee training program is to prove the Return on Investment (ROI). Benefits have to exceed costs or the training program will be cut. But how do you quantify how much an employee has learned? What dollar value can you…