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Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.936.8381, F:510.894.8405 may 2014, volume SE 08 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com Editor-in-Chief Pradeep ShankarManaging Editor Christo JacobEditorial StaffSalesCharles MatthewsGeorge ThomasHarvi SacharHetal ShethJoshua ParkerJudy ChristinMatthew JacobNeha KuduvalliRuby JonasSherly JamesSebastian Jacobsebastian@cioreview.comT:510.565.7564Lawrence Tselawrence@cioreview.comDaniel Craigdaniel@cioreview.comKevin Morriskevin.morris@cioreview.comVisualizersStephen ThomasMohammed HaneefSAP Technology SpecialCIOReviewThe departures of high profile executives Vishal Sikka, top innovation chief and the brain behind HANA, and Shawn Price, who led the company's cloud business earlier this month, and appointment of Bill McDermott as sole CEO ushers in a new era at SAP. Analysts say the broader management shift will make SAP more similar to its U.S. rivals including Oracle and Microsoft.SAP is transitioning to a cloud model. Just a week ago Microsoft and SAP expanded their cloud-computing partnership. The move aims to increase customer access to SAP's business software and applications in the cloud. To push its brand, SAP is launching a chain of HANA-branded cafes, starting in Silicon Valley. The eateries aim to attract entrepreneurs, programmers and designers.SAP's Americanization goes beyond product design, offering and marketing. McDermott is on a "personal mission" to expand in the U.S., where SAP's market penetration lags its European market share. The company generated $2.42 billion in revenue last quarter in Europe, Middle East and Africa, compared with $1.44 billion in the U.S.As McDermott's tries to shift SAP transformation into high gear, all eyes will be glued to SAP's SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando at the beginning of June where McDermott will deliver his big pitch to customers about SAP's inflection points.While SAP reinvents and ups the ante on cloud computing, we believe SAP ecosystem players will have a key role to play. Keeping this in mind and to help our readers in their selection of SAP partners, CIOReview presents to you most promising SAP solution and consulting providers. The solution providers showcased in this special edition deliver expertise and experience to enhance SAP platforms that their clients need. We at CIOReview recognize their efforts in helping customers of all sizes adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and ultimately run better with SAP solutions. Some of these solution providers have comprehensive portfolio of offerings spanning the complete lifecycle of SAP enterprise solutions -- enabling enterprises to transform, enhance and optimize their business processes.If you're an SAP customer, we'd love to hear from you on how your SAP solution partner matters to your business.Pradeep ShankarEditor-in-Chiefeditor@cioreview.comEditorialReinventing SAPMailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 July 14 - 2014, volume SE 11 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com Editor-in-Chief Pradeep ShankarManaging Editor Christo JacobEditorial StaffSalesRaj KumarCharles MatthewsGeorge ThomasHarvi SacharJeevan GeorgeJoe PhiipRuby JonasSarah FernandesT:510.565.7627 VisualizersStephen ThomasMohammed HaneefMicrosoft technology specialCIOReviewDennis Peterdennis@cioreview.com Maria D'souzamaria@cioreview.com Steve Millersteve@cioreview.com Louis Fernandeslouis@cioreview.com Microsoft is at a critical juncture in its years-long transformation. It's getting reshaped by the new CEO Satya Nadella who has proclaimed, transformation will be a key to the company's future.At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference held earlier this month, Nadella outlined his new vision for productivity in front of thousands of the Microsoft partners. "Microsoft's strength is its ability to create productivity platforms," he said. "That's our singular mission, that's what's unique to us, that's what in our core and in our soul--and that's what we're going to do."He emphasized that there is no breaking the tie between mobile-first and cloud-first as strategies for the next generation of computing, pledging to make the Microsoft ecosystem as pervasive as possible.Microsoft is still morphing from a provider of on premises software to a provider of cloud computing services and hardware devices. Microsoft hopes to now refine its partner programs so they are more aligned with its "cloud first, mobile first" philosophy.At the Partner Conference, the company presented its cloud products and services as a way for partner companies to generate more revenue and land more customers.Microsoft Solution providers across the globe should understand the new landscape. Many of the solution providers who have built their businesses solely focusing on on-premises Microsoft software now face a significant adjustment when pushing cloud services. They have to adapt to a new model of business.In this special edition, we present you most promising solution providers who are at the forefront of adapting to the new paradigm. The companies featured in this issue, through their capabilities on top of Microsoft's capabilities, can deliver unique, differentiated, and un-paralleled value to their customers. These are companies that are betting on and winning big with Microsoft.We believe this information will help you, while you make your IT decisions. We would love to hear your experience of leveraging Microsoft products and platform to steer your business.Please do let us know what you think, Pradeep ShankarEditor-in-Chiefeditor@cioreview.comCloud isn't the future, it's the presentEditorial| | may 20146CIOReviewCopyright © 2014 CIOReview, Inc. 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Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.936.8381, F:510.894.8405 may 2014, volume SE 08 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com Editor-in-Chief Pradeep ShankarManaging Editor Christo JacobEditorial StaffSalesCharles MatthewsGeorge ThomasHarvi SacharHetal ShethJoshua ParkerJudy ChristinMatthew JacobNeha KuduvalliRuby JonasSherly JamesSebastian Jacobsebastian@cioreview.comT:510.565.7564Lawrence Tselawrence@cioreview.comDaniel Craigdaniel@cioreview.comKevin Morriskevin.morris@cioreview.comVisualizersStephen ThomasMohammed HaneefSAP Technology SpecialCIOReviewThe departures of high profile executives Vishal Sikka, top innovation chief and the brain behind HANA, and Shawn Price, who led the company's cloud business earlier this month, and appointment of Bill McDermott as sole CEO ushers in a new era at SAP. Analysts say the broader management shift will make SAP more similar to its U.S. rivals including Oracle and Microsoft.SAP is transitioning to a cloud model. Just a week ago Microsoft and SAP expanded their cloud-computing partnership. The move aims to increase customer access to SAP's business software and applications in the cloud. To push its brand, SAP is launching a chain of HANA-branded cafes, starting in Silicon Valley. The eateries aim to attract entrepreneurs, programmers and designers.SAP's Americanization goes beyond product design, offering and marketing. McDermott is on a "personal mission" to expand in the U.S., where SAP's market penetration lags its European market share. The company generated $2.42 billion in revenue last quarter in Europe, Middle East and Africa, compared with $1.44 billion in the U.S.As McDermott's tries to shift SAP transformation into high gear, all eyes will be glued to SAP's SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando at the beginning of June where McDermott will deliver his big pitch to customers about SAP's inflection points.While SAP reinvents and ups the ante on cloud computing, we believe SAP ecosystem players will have a key role to play. Keeping this in mind and to help our readers in their selection of SAP partners, CIOReview presents to you most promising SAP solution and consulting providers. The solution providers showcased in this special edition deliver expertise and experience to enhance SAP platforms that their clients need. We at CIOReview recognize their efforts in helping customers of all sizes adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and ultimately run better with SAP solutions. Some of these solution providers have comprehensive portfolio of offerings spanning the complete lifecycle of SAP enterprise solutions -- enabling enterprises to transform, enhance and optimize their business processes.If you're an SAP customer, we'd love to hear from you on how your SAP solution partner matters to your business.Pradeep ShankarEditor-in-Chiefeditor@cioreview.comEditorialReinventing SAP| | may 20146CIOReviewCopyright © 2014 CIOReview, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewMAY - 2014CIOReview's circulation is audited and certified by BPA International (Audit Pending). Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.936.8381, F:510.894.8405 may 2014, volume SE 08 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com Editor-in-Chief Pradeep ShankarManaging Editor Christo JacobEditorial StaffSalesCharles MatthewsGeorge ThomasHarvi SacharHetal ShethJoshua ParkerJudy ChristinMatthew JacobNeha KuduvalliRuby JonasSherly JamesSebastian Jacobsebastian@cioreview.comT:510.565.7564Lawrence Tselawrence@cioreview.comDaniel Craigdaniel@cioreview.comKevin Morriskevin.morris@cioreview.comVisualizersStephen ThomasMohammed HaneefSAP Technology SpecialCIOReviewThe departures of high profile executives Vishal Sikka, top innovation chief and the brain behind HANA, and Shawn Price, who led the company's cloud business earlier this month, and appointment of Bill McDermott as sole CEO ushers in a new era at SAP. Analysts say the broader management shift will make SAP more similar to its U.S. rivals including Oracle and Microsoft.SAP is transitioning to a cloud model. Just a week ago Microsoft and SAP expanded their cloud-computing partnership. The move aims to increase customer access to SAP's business software and applications in the cloud. To push its brand, SAP is launching a chain of HANA-branded cafes, starting in Silicon Valley. The eateries aim to attract entrepreneurs, programmers and designers.SAP's Americanization goes beyond product design, offering and marketing. McDermott is on a "personal mission" to expand in the U.S., where SAP's market penetration lags its European market share. The company generated $2.42 billion in revenue last quarter in Europe, Middle East and Africa, compared with $1.44 billion in the U.S.As McDermott's tries to shift SAP transformation into high gear, all eyes will be glued to SAP's SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando at the beginning of June where McDermott will deliver his big pitch to customers about SAP's inflection points.While SAP reinvents and ups the ante on cloud computing, we believe SAP ecosystem players will have a key role to play. Keeping this in mind and to help our readers in their selection of SAP partners, CIOReview presents to you most promising SAP solution and consulting providers. The solution providers showcased in this special edition deliver expertise and experience to enhance SAP platforms that their clients need. We at CIOReview recognize their efforts in helping customers of all sizes adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and ultimately run better with SAP solutions. Some of these solution providers have comprehensive portfolio of offerings spanning the complete lifecycle of SAP enterprise solutions -- enabling enterprises to transform, enhance and optimize their business processes.If you're an SAP customer, we'd love to hear from you on how your SAP solution partner matters to your business.Pradeep ShankarEditor-in-Chiefeditor@cioreview.comEditorialReinventing SAP
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