A Closer Look at SAP HANA Cloud
A year ago, in our annual 2020 data and analytics outlook, we took note of the secular trends driving enterprise cloud adoption. In our 2021 take, we previewed an issue that will become a sleeper this year: the question of cloud-independence, and the role of third parties like SAP. That's because the next wave of cloud adoption for enterprises will hit home: to the core business-critical systems that keep the lights on. If anything, the pandemic is accelerating these trends. While it would be ridiculous to term SAP's, or any other enterprise vendor's cloud strategy prescient, 2020 was a good ...