{"id":3554,"date":"2016-09-26T22:11:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T22:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/209.235.70.100\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2019-12-24T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:12:38","slug":"thoughts-on-sapteched-and-why-hana-cloud-are-better-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navisite.com\/blog\/thoughts-on-sapteched-and-why-hana-cloud-are-better-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on #SAPTechEd and Why HANA & Cloud are Better Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Day 1: Bj\u00f6rn Goerke Goes Back to the Future <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The #SAPTechEd executive keynote opens with video and radio chatter alluding to some kind of an alternate universe mission, then brings us back to reality as a windshield view displays the Las Vegas skyline and the dashboard console reads Sept. 19, 2036\u2026scratch that, 2016. Through a thick cloud of smoke and lights, a tricked out DeLorean drives onto the stage as if arriving from space. Channeling his inner Christopher Lloyd, Bj\u00f6rn Goerke<\/a>, Executive Vice President and Corporate Officer, Head of Technology in Products and Innovation, SAP, appears from the smoking car talking to himself about malfunctioning time machines. We soon learn he\u2019s arrived from 2036, now stranded in 2016 as he asks the audience, \u201cWhat are you all doing here? Waiting on the SAP TechEd Keynote? What\u2019s TechEd anyway? Some kind of algorithmic celebration ritual for software geeks?\u201d Well played.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Enter the keynote theme of prepping yourself for the future \u2013 getting ready for the digital age \u2013 in order to survive. We\u2019re reminded we all need to get ready for the digital age and transform our businesses, and we need S\/4 HANA to do so \u2013 S\/4 HANA is the new digital core of SAP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Doc \u2013 I mean Bj\u00f6rn \u2013 continues to discuss the future of SAP\u2019s move to HANA via S\/4 HANA and the Cloud Connector. Other key topics included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n