SAP HANA Scale-out and Virtualization

whitePaper | September 23, 2022

It’s been several years since organizations began adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their business; few have come close to mastering its existing capabilities. A small number of organizations in our research aim to become AI-driven—a status we define as AI and machine learning underpinning almost everything the enterprise does—by 2025. However, this elite group—who we term “AI leaders”1—as well as the many others looking simply to embed AI more firmly in the enterprise foundations face formidable challenges to achieving their objectives.

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

We first published this index five years ago. The world was different then. Governments were dealing with a landscape defined by benign growth, relative global stability, the optimism of an emergent technology. In 2022, it feels like everything has changed. It looks like we are entering a global recession, war has returned to Europe and AI breaks new ground every week. Just the last month has brought advances in art (Stable Diffusion), chat (ChatGPT) and negotiation (CICERO).

whitePaper | December 28, 2022

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whitePaper | January 8, 2020

AI in manufacturing is a game-changer. It has the potential to transform performance across the breadth and depth of manufacturing operations. However, the massive potential of this new Industrial 4.0 era will only be realized if manufacturers really focus their efforts on where AI can add most value and then drive the solutions to scale.

whitePaper | August 26, 2022

Evolving data centers into intelligent hubs for digitized business processes poses numerous challenges for IT managers. Many organizations are already adopting hybrid IT concepts to make their data center operations more flexible. However, they also have to keep an eye on new requirements such as IoT, AI, blockchain, container technology as well as data security, legal regulations and climate change. How can all this be seamlessly integrated and managed? And, what will matter next for the data center of the future?

whitePaper | September 28, 2022

As the speed of enterprise operations surge and expectations for quick responses rise, decision making increasingly migrates from data centers to the network’s edge. Whether it’s on the shop floor, where busy production lines must not stand idle, a doctor in a surgical suite waiting for answers, a fire crew needing orders to fight a frantically advancing wildfire, scientists looking for insights that will help a recovering coral reef, or a retail environment where impatient customers wait for help in making a purchase, enterprises must configure their systems to collect information, to develop actionable insights, and to provide decisions or answers in real time.