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Enterprise hits and misses - IBM gets Red Hat, the tech media goes trick or treating This article is sponsored by:

In the latest “road burn” version of hits and misses, Jon picks the highlights from the week’s biggest shows, the highs from the enterprise web, and, as always – your weekly whiffs. Plus: separating the best IBM - Red Hat analysis from the rest.

SAP TechEd 2018 Barcelona - Björn Goerke, SAP's CTO - There is no future with ABAP alone, and there is no future in SAP without ABAP. This article is sponsored by:

Björn Goerke's SAP TechEd Barcelona keynote struck me as one that had all the right ingredients but delivered to an audience that wasn't fully on board. That's debatable but it opens up an important discussion SAP developers and their business counterparts must have.

DSAG and SAP on more or less the same page? Tell me it ain't so. This article is sponsored by:

A DSAG survey provides illuminating insights into how well aligned SAP is to its customers. It's not all smooth sailing but there are important areas of agreement that hold bright promise for the future.

MuleSoft CTO on the quest to open up metadata at Salesforce This article is sponsored by:

In conversation with MuleSoft CTO Uri Sarid we talk about how Salesforce approaches data and metadata interoperability, service mesh and more

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Web founder Berners-Lee rallies Solid rebellion against digital empires This article is sponsored by:

WorldWide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches Inrupt to foment Solid citizen data rebellion against digital empires of Facebook, Google and others

Cloud-agnostic container platforms - it's all to play for This article is sponsored by:

Avoiding lock-in when making multi-cloud decisions is a top of mind topic for infrastructure architects. The options are getting better.

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Teradata v. SAP - what it means to customers and prospects This article is sponsored by:

This lawsuit, like the Indirect Access flap, may trigger some interesting conversations between SAP and its customers/prospects. While it’s too early to call anything, what might this litigation trigger?

Is SAP's ABAP a special snowflake or has a Git run it over? This article is sponsored by:

A vibrant and important conversation among SAP Mentors provides insights into the challenges SAP faces in an open source led world.

Australia’s ticketing giant Ticketek goes all in with MongoDB - ‘It’s the only database up to the task’ This article is sponsored by:

Ticketek has transformed itself into a platform business and we spoke to CTO Matt Cudworth at MongoDB World in New York about its transformation.

MongoDB evolution continues with launch of mobile, visualisation tools and general availability of Stitch This article is sponsored by:

At the opening of MongoDB World 2018, the NoSQL database provider made a number of announcements that enhance its backend and management capabilities.

Enterprise hits and misses - Buyers are changing, Workday is buying, and the Microsoft - Github debate continues This article is sponsored by:

This week - Another no-vacation-for-you surprise as Workday buys Adaptive Insights. The B2B buyer is changing faster than sales can keep up, and Microsoft's Github acquisition provokes debate - and a big whiff.

Enterprise hits and misses - AI hits the curve, SAP subverts the two-speed enterprise This article is sponsored by:

This week - AI isn't intelligent until it gets to causality. Sapphire Now begins with CRM swagger - bring on the analysis. Plus: Microsoft gets Github, but why? Your whiffs include a tour of Twitter support dystopia via my pals at Intuit.

Sapphire Now 2018 - the don’t be creepy keynote This article is sponsored by:

A competent keynote with few slip ups but no real depth and no real surprises.