Dick Hirsch - author at diginomica

Dick Hirsch is a blogger focusing on SAP's Cloud strategy. He is also a SAP Mentor. His views are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of his employer.

Articles by Dick Hirsch

SAP Hybris retires YaaS.io - where do SAP microservices go from here? This article is sponsored by:

SAP has announced the end for the pioneering YaaS.io. But as Dick Hirsch advises - don't send flowers. SAP has more plans for microservices in the SAP Cloud Platform mix.

Is Kubernetes SAP Leonardo's Mona Lisa? The role of Kubernetes in the SAP Cloud This article is sponsored by:

Just in time for SAP TechEd Barcelona, Dick Hirsch unearths the surprising connections between Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry and the SAP Cloud. The kicker question: what does the mean for customers, and the developer community?

The importance of being boring in the SAP cloud as a success driver This article is sponsored by:

Call the SAP Cloud Platform boring? Not quite. In his latest SAP cloud investigation, Dick Hirsch explains why cloud at scale should be boring, with micropaths to monetization.

Beyond SAP Cloud Platform’s multi-cloud stamp of approval This article is sponsored by:

Sapphire Now brought some insight on SAP's multi-cloud plans, but details were hard to come by. Dick Hirsch goes on a post-Sapphire deep dive to explore what multi-cloud means for SAP customers.

SAP Cloud Platform: the multi-cloud (almost) realized - a SapphireNow 2017 tech preview This article is sponsored by:

The SAP Cloud Platform is quietly going through a multi-cloud evolution. Perhaps not so quietly, now that Dick Hirsch has put his research chops to the test. In this special Sapphire Now tech preview, Hirsch shares what he's uncovered, and why the SCP multi-cloud approach - properly realized - could give SAP an edge.

SAP Digital Customer Insight and beyond - SAP's data as a service plans unfold This article is sponsored by:

Drawing on meetings and online inquiries, Dick Hirsch dons the investigator hat again to pursue SAP's data as a service moves in Digital Customer Insight and beyond. In the process, he makes a discovery: a new internal startup called SAP Business Data Network that reveals some of SAP's data as a service intentions, and how they compare with other companies such as Uber.

A deep dive into SAP Hybris YaaS microservices This article is sponsored by:

In part two of Dick Hirsch's series on enterprise microservices, Hirsch takes the reader on an illustrated dive into the SAP Hybris YaaS microservices approach. Crunching data from SAP Hybris, Hirsch analyzes SAP's microservices release schedules and patterns. He also reflects on how microservices might impact S/4HANA, and the SAP Cloud Platform.

SAP Hybris and the push towards enterprise microservices - an analysis This article is sponsored by:

At the SAP Hybris event in Munich, SAP announced the SAP Hybris Revenue Cloud offering - the latest in a series of commercial microservices offerings. In this analysis, Dick Hirsch explains why microservices are becoming a factor for enterprise software vendors. He also breaks out several types of microservices, and the relevance of each.

The complicated relationship between Cloud Foundry and SAP’s HANA Cloud Platform This article is sponsored by:

Dick Hirsch unravels the hairball of relationships that SAP enjoys within the context of Cloud Foundry and discovers that SAP developers can benefit - provided SAP contributes.

Understanding the differences between SAP and Salesforce approach to vehicle networks This article is sponsored by:

Dick Hirsch picks apart the future vehicle networks that both SAP and Salesforce are proposing

New business services come to SAP HCP, weakening the IaaS/PaaS distinctions This article is sponsored by:

SAP shifts towards business process as a service with its latest HCP release. It reflects a movement vertically in the cloud stack towards features usually associated with SaaS applications.

SAP S/4 HANA revisited, public GA for cloud editions, more messaging issues This article is sponsored by:

I haven’t written about SAP’s next generation Business Suite - S/4 HANA - since the Sapphire event, so wanted to catch up on what has been happening regarding this new offering. I’ve picked out a few related topics for deeper analysis.

White boarding SAP S/4 HANA This article is sponsored by:

Dick Hirsch whiteboards SAP S/4 HANA so that CTOs don't have to.