Category Archives: Mobility

Siri + HANA

I was having a discussion with a colleague of mine about the significance of Apple’s Siri.  This is the voice activated digital assistant application that is now part of the iPhone 4S.  Basically you make verbal requests of your phone and it, in turn uses different Internet based services to retrieve that data for you. …

Mobility, Real-Time, and the New Intelligence

It was interesting to see at last year’s SAP Sapphire conference such a focus around mobility.  To be honest my first impression was, haven’t we had mobility for a long time.  The discussion began with the in-memory computing and touting the capability of generating analytics based on real-time transactional data.  So I thought about this…