{"id":1315,"date":"2011-03-10T22:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"hana-and-watson-the-elevator-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"HANA and Watson &#8211; the elevator pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday analysts, industry experts, influencers, bloggers, mentors and other luminous individuals gathered for a day in Boston to attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapevents.com\/SAP\/RunBetterTour\/index.cfm?fuseaction=reg.Landing\">Run Better Tour<\/a> and an influencer event with SAP board member Vishal Sikka.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to get a few seconds with Vijay Vijayasankar of IBM and asked him for an elevator pitch about his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/23560%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\"> recent thoughts on HANA and Watson opportunities<\/a>. See the video below. There is also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/howlett\/ibm-watson-and-sap-hana-faceoff\/2946?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IrregularEnterprise+%28Irregular+Enterprise+Blog+RSS+%7C+ZDNet%29&amp;utm_content=Seesmic\">funny and very insightful video by Dennis Howlett<\/a> of Vijay and Vishal Sikka talking about the same topic. Vijay is rocking this topic, so watch this space!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Key message of the day was the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/about\/newsroom\/press.epx?PressID=14907\">announcement of the roadmap for new In-Memory Computing applications<\/a>. <del>I will post a separate item on the event, for now I&#8217;d like to mention something else.<\/del> I have also posted a separate article on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1322\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay&#8217;s 30 seconds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sap-blogosphere","debut-has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}