SAP shares HANA, Data Warehouse Cloud announcements, year-end plans
Summary
Today, on the first day of SAPs TechEd virtual event, the Walldorf, Germany-based enterprise software company is making a slew of announcements, including some in the data realm. Meanwhile, its also a "no cliff" offering, allowing data engineers and others to augment visual pipelines with Python 3-based scripting if desired, and when needed. In a briefing with ZDNet, SAP CTO Juergen Mueller explained the company is considering extending the online format and free admission even beyond the Coronavirus pandemic. Mueller explained this is part of formal policy and credo to make education around SAP technology free. Granted, SAP is behind Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle (the other three companies in the "MISO" cohort), as well as Google and Amazon Web Services.
