ITM 707 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cloud Computing, Sap Hana, Sap Ariba

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 707
• Professor: Claude Sam- Foh

Document Summary

Case analysis on sap 2014: reaching for the cloud. Sap was founded in mannheim, germany in 1972 by a group originally from ibm. Three decades later sap developed software that aimed to keep pace with fast-changing technological developments and client needs. In 1990 sap had developed r/3 which would be able to automate all of an enterprises business processes from manufacturing to finance to human resources. 2010 was the year sap entered the cloud market, the development of sap. Sap hana was a system that enabled real time analytics through cloud servers. In 2011 sap had acquired successfactors for . 4 billion, successfactors was the leader of the cloud-based human capital management (hcm). Sap had also acquired ariba for . 3 billion, ariba was the leader in web-based b2b commerce network. Sap has acquired globally located clientele that use sap"s se(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)ts.