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SAP: We are serious about Cloud Computing

Posted by Stuart Lauchlan in Management, Applications on Tue, 12/05/2009 - 01:57


Leo Apotheker next week becomes the sole CEO of German software powerhouse SAP. He takes over at an interesting (for which read challenging) time for the entire industry. Not only is the wider world in economic meltdown and impacting on the firm's revenues, customers are demanding new ways of interfacing with software systems that are seemingly a million miles away from the type of  on premise enterprise offerings upon which SAP has built its success.

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Business Cloud Summit 2009

In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.

View from the Cloud: is email dead for business?

Leading Cloud Computing industry figures offers their unique viewpoint on topical and strategic issues.

In this article Cameron  Nouri, Email & Apps Evangelist at Rackspace suggests that Cloud Computing alters the role of email in business.

"Email is clearly an important tool for communication, but it is just part of the infrastructure and not part of the company’s IP,  which drives market share and delivers competitive edge. This means email needs to adapt to businesses’ requirements, not  the other way around. As Cloud Computing become more widespread, we are already seeing a shift in how email is managed."   Read more.